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Backyard and Beyond
Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world. "The place to observe nature is where you are."—John Burroughs
This work by Matthew Wills is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Backyard and Beyond 
Hi Matthew, Thank you for your postings of natural life in our city; they inspire me to explore and learn. I’m taking a course in dragonflies and damselflies from NYBG. Could you let me know where you’ve been spotting the Swamp Darners: I’d like to explore that area for my course work. I’ve been using my smart phone to photograph dragonflies and damselflies: the results are generally poor and out of focus. I want to start looking for a lower-end DSLR camera with a zoom lens for macro-photography. Do you have any recommendations? Thanks for all, Richard Lefkowitz
Hi, Richard
I’ve been seeing them in Green-Wood, but also in my Sunset Park neighborhood. So I think they’re all over but in small numbers. This iNaturalist page shows recent reports in the five boroughs https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=674&subview=map&taxon_id=100034
I use a Sony RX10IV, which has a fixed lens, so I can’t speak to DSLRs.