Sausal Pond, San Mateo County, California

Beginning around dawn, dozens, maybe hundreds, of Flame Skimmer nymphs, all females, crawled out of the
pond, through the cattail reeds and grass, climbed up a dried thistle or teasel stalk, and metamorphosed
into air-breathing, adult insects with wings. Unfortunately, Scrub Jays were waiting. The end for the new
emergents came shortly after they signaled their presence by flapping their teneral wings in the early light.

This is one of the few that made it -- I watched her maiden flight up into a Live Oak where she was a little safer.