We saw this colorful dragonfly perched on an auto antenna as we were parking. It stayed there long enough for me to get this close up photo of it before flying away. We saw a red dragonfly near the hospital courtyard koi pond in July and another one out in California in October of 2007. Click on the image to enlarge.
Probably red because it has a sunburn.
Or it only eats red things or its breed red. Ha.