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Literally every summer, me and the family visit my mother-in-law's place outside Härnösand which is located 500 km / 300 miles north of our home in Stockholm, Sweden.

She has a grand garden which is a goldmine for me and my macro lens and in that garden is a pond which attracts multiple species of dragonflies.

One of those sepecies is the yellow-winged darter (Sympetrum flaveolum) - but I only saw it that one summer back in 2018. Never before and never after. And there were loads of them, fighting for territory, courting and mating - and yet I haven't seen them in six summers since then.

This is a male as evidenced by the bright red colour and you can see the translucent yellow parts of the wings that give the species its name.

Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/32502228818/

Part 2 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/46173630975/

and a much closer shot here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/49860184986/

My mother-in-law's garden outside Härnösand, Sweden, has a large pond and I usually find a few different species of dragonflies there every summer.

In the summer of 2018 there was a new species there, the yellow-winged darter (Sympetrum flaveolum)

This male was perched on top of a dead flower, on the lookout for any hot ladies to fool around with and any other males to charge and drive away.

I've edited this one a bit in Photoshop to remove some of the reflections in the eye and face, but I'm not sure it looks good. What do you think?

I also have a shot taken right after this one, but without flash and it looks like this: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/46099385492/