Dragonfly walk to Venus Drive

I would deem myself as quite passionate in dragonfly and since 5-year old, I had already started observing dragonfly. Therefore, I have a decent amount of knowledge to lead a walk on dragonflies. The weather was very good that day, with the sun hanging in the sky that shone brightly onto the stream, making the stream sparkle......Though it was a little bit hot, it was a perfectly good day for dragonfly-watching as dragonflies are cold-blooded and they need to warm up in the Sun to be active.
There was a lot of habitats in Venus trail, including mud patches, streams, ponds, shady stagnant pools...and from all these habitats, we could find a certain amount of dragonfly species. The day started off very good, because in the open stream, which was expected to have lesser species as it is not in the forest, turns out quite good as we spotted around 10 species. Though all of them are just common species, the people which participated in the walk are still very impressed by the colours of the dragonflies as they did not take a good look at these species before. In addition, we also found some common species mating, like the ceriagrion cerinorubellum and the Orthetrum Chrysis. (Sorry for using latin names as I am not really sure with the common names, as I just got to know the names about a few months ago)
A surprise was in store for us later when we went into the forest. On a stagnant pool, I spotted a Gynacantha dohrni hovering over a stagnant pool. This species is a crepuscular species that is rarely spotted in the morning unless we bashed into the dense bushes. Though it was a less seen species, it is dull green in colour and the colour is not very striking. Therefore, I was not very sure if the people who attended the talk knew really appreciated it. Around the stagnant pool, we also spotted a special damselfly that opened it's wings when rested instead of opening. Other than that, we also spotted a blue-red-and-yellow species that was quite rare as it mostly appeared in the Central Catchment area.
As we continued to a forest stream, we spotted two big metallic green damselfly that was fluttering under the sun, it's wings shimmering with blue. This two damselfly was displaying and flying facing each other. However, it is a very secretive species and not long after, it flew down the stream and disappeared. Therefore, only a few people saw this species.
Lastly, as we continued to a pond, we also spotted a few species mating. The damselflies mate in a way that a heart-shape was form when they attached their appendages and ovipositors to each other and after mating, we saw them ovipositing in the Tandem guarding method, which is the male's appendage hooked to the female's thorax while it is ovipositing. The dragonflies flew around together, and they practiced Non-contact guarding, which was the male hovering above, guarding the female while the female is ovipositing in the water.
At last, we came to the end of the walk, which was very sastifactory. Overall, we spotted 22 species, which was around 1/6 of the total dragonflies in Singapore (125 species in Singapore, with the recent discovery of zyxomma obtusum in Pulau Ubin).