Some dragonflies watch for prey from a perch and then head out after it. This is not the case with darners, which hunt on the wing. This makes them a challenge to photograph. Below are four views, taken in late September, of (what I believe is) a male shadow darner as it patrolled the lakeshore looking for other insects.
While I was trying to photograph the darner in flight, a beeish robber fly headed out and did catch something delectable: possibly a cuckoo bee. So, while my camera did not catch the robber fly in flight, the fly caught something else in flight, so I added that shot also.
The Kootenay-Lake Website offers a discussion and more pictures of local dragonflies and flies.
