This was my first encounter with a spiketail. My dragonfly book says this species is "elusive and seldom encountered anywhere in Ontario". My dragonfly book also mentions that they are "found along small, rapid, often shaded, sandy-bottomed forest streams" and that's where I found this one, though the stream wasn't rapid. This was, without a doubt, my find of the day! It came not too long after I thought to myself how surprisingly unproductive the day was turning out.