The Dragonfly Whisperer on Evening Magazine

The Evening Magazine segment about the Dragonfly Whisperer in Anacortes aired last night (9/11/2018) on King 5 TV. Here's the segment as it aired:

I think they did a very good job of integrating my slow-motion spin-dry videos into the program—it was a delight to see them on the air. They also did a nice job of showing some of the dragonflies we encountered at Cranberry Lake and Heart Lake here in Anacortes.

They also talked about the Happy-face Dragonfly, which is always fun, and pointed out that it is on the cover of my field guide. As they mentioned, the field guide is available on Amazon; in fact, it can be found at the following link

https://www.amazon.com/Common-Dragonflies-Damselflies-Pacific-Coast/dp/1934199265/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1536788429&sr=8-2&keywords=dragonflies+pacific

They have a good price for the guide right now!


Below is the original post about Evening Magazine's visit, in case you missed it.


A few weeks ago, Evening Magazine from King5 TV came to Anacortes to do an interview with the Dragonfly Whisperer. It will be aired on September 11 at 7:30 pm.





They were getting some great shots with their video equipment. They could fill the entire frame with small damselflies, and get really nice close ups of dragonflies. Here's the cameraman getting a video of me taking a picture of him (notice the reflection of my hands holding my camera in the video lens):



We filmed at Cranberry Lake, where we took videos of damselflies, and at Heart Lake, where we concentrated on dragonflies. At Heart Lake we had a nice look at a female Cardinal Meadowhawk. They got great video of the dragonfly, as well as video of me taking pictures of it. They will then intersperse some of my still shots, like this one, in the finished segment:



We also saw several Eight-spotted Skimmers, again with the video camera getting great views, as well as shots of me taking pictures of the dragonflies. Some had quite a bit of wear on their wings, like this one:



One even had an entire wing missing. I've seen ragged wings, and wings with sections missing, but this was the first time I had seen a dragonfly with one wing completely gone.



As the cameraman for Evening Magazine said, "It's amazing it doesn't just fly around in circles." That's right, but in fact it was flying pretty much normally.

I'm sure the segment on King5 will be quite brief, but it will be fun to see some dragonflies on TV.