The title should really be ‘Watching A Dragon . . .fly’ as there was only one. He (she?) was ferociously driving off any others that wanted to share the space above the water.
A lot of the shots taken were just of a blurred background. Dragonflies are rather prone to zipping around all over the place. Too much caffeine maybe? Hmm . . .
. . . and back again.
I tried different shutter speeds and and discovered a problem due to four wings. The front wings tend to move in an interesting circular fashion and so a lot of the time they would block or blur the head. In the shot below the front wing is a little over the eye, although hard to see.
Compared to this shot below, at a higher shutter speed, where the head is clearer.
Google informs me that there are no two-winged dragonflies. Shame.