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<\/a><\/p>\nI had been trying to get shots of one of the squadron’s worth of dragonflies which were around, but to no avail.\u00a0 A little way further around the lake, as if in response to this, one flew up, landed on a bush, and then proceeded to stay for a minute or two before circling and re-posing in a different direction: Even more difficult to capture were the tiny blue dragonflies which didn’t come up very much, but tended to hover right above the surface of the water.\u00a0 Managed to get one on the way out as it stopped on a piece of grass sticking up out of the water, then caught two others making more dragonflies up on the bank: Just below the first blue dragonfly, Kelly noticed a couple of tiny fish flitting around just under the surface of the water: On the subject of bugs copulating, later I saw what appeared to be a weirdly malformed dragonfly… until it landed and I figured out what was really going on: There were a couple of boats going by, with people fishing, dogs just hanging out, you name it.\u00a0 These two looked pretty happy: After the boat went by, an older lady was walking up the beach toward us.\u00a0 I wanted to take her picture as she was approaching, but since I didn’t want to also yell across the 50-yards or so between us if that was okay with her, I just surreptitiously shot the picture when she turned around and walked back the other way… Also managed to get a couple of random shots as we were walking: There were lots and lots of birds out, from the smaller birds collecting stuff along the shoreline to build nests, to the rather large buzzards circling overhead: That particular buzzard got dive-bombed by two smaller birds back across the lake, above the bait and tackle shop.\u00a0 We had seen some nests there previously with babies, and when we got back over we realized that it was the two mother birds running off the much, much larger buzzards.\u00a0 Didn’t run us off though: Of course when mom showed up they were all very demanding: On Saturday, I managed to shoot a picture with Kelly’s cell-phone camera of one of the deer that we saw on the way around the lake.\u00a0 On Sunday, no sign of any deer anywhere.\u00a0 Until… on our way out of the lake area after shooting the birds at the bait and tackle shop, who did we run across but (most likely) the same deer from the day prior:<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nThose were two of the largest, nastiest horseflies I had ever seen, and because I can’t un-see them, now you can’t either!<\/p>\n
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\nTypical…<\/p>\n
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