Hurray!
This is almost click bait.
To be more precise: I found a species of dragonfly I had never seen before, so it was new to me.
I like it a lot when that happens.
It was a western clubtail (Gomphus pulchellus), plasrombout in Dutch, and I managed to get some good photos:
Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO100, f5.6, 1/640s
This dragonfly is found in Western Europe and Southwestern Europe, but not in Great Britain.
Na-na na-na naah-na.
It is about 50mm (2") in length and it lives mostly near puddles, slow-flowing waters, and sometimes fens.
Olympus Stylus 1s, 135mm, ISO100, f5.6, 1/800s
The books say these aren't rare, so I wonder where they have been hiding all this time.
Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO100, f8, 1/500s
I also noticed they have funny lips, at least for a dragonfly:
Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO100, f8, 1/500s
Another species for the list. Yay!
Thanks for watching!