Flight of the Dragonflies

Bet you didn't know that dragonflies fly South for the Winter, did ya? Well, you know now! I witnessed one of the most spectacular things I've ever seen yesterday. I went outside to watch my birds at the feeders, as I do most evenings, and I happened to notice something smaller in the sky. I got the binoculars out and looked through them. Hundreds (or maybe more like thousands) of dragonflies flying above the trees. They were all headed Southeast. I stayed out there about an hour just watching them soar across the sky. I wanted Bill to see it, but he was sound asleep in his chair, so I had nobody to witness it with me but the cats, and they didn't seem too interested, LOL!

I got to wondering if maybe dragonflies fly South for the Winter, so I came inside and looked it up on the internet. Sure enough..that's exactly what they were doing!! Anywhere from mid August to late September, they migrate South. It was a beautiful thing to witness.

If you didn't get to see them, wait for next year and go outside and look up in the sky every day...it is so cool!

The only thing neater than that is the migration of the Monarch butterflies, which should be happening real soon.

Note to self...get to Lowe's this weekend and get some plants for the Monarchs...