A day in the life of damselflies

This male large red damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) was just hanging around looking pretty:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f8, 1/320s}

The azure damselflies (Coenagrion puella) on the other hand were having a busy day.

Just as I was getting a shot of one sitting on a leaf, another one landed and yet another one flew into the frame. Bloody tourists always do that:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f8, 1/320s}

Yes, that is the same one I showed exercising yesterday. Here it is, to save you a mouse click. Just a Photoshop experiment gone out of control:

Some post-exercise conversation; maybe they were discussing the one-eyed, big, black thing hovering around them:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f8, 1/320s}

The reason for the stretching became clear later; there were eggs to be deposited, and the male holds on to the female while she does that:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f8, 1/250s}

I suspect they went for a beer next, but I didn't manage to get photos of that.

Thanks for watching!