After a cool and damp start to May here in southern NH, the first dragonflies of the season seem to have emerged all at once during the past week or so.
The two little girls who live next door wait for the bus down by the bridge across the inlet to the lake. Last Thursday morning they noticed dragonflies emerging on fence while waiting for the bus. Alerted to their observation (by their dad), I headed down to the lake on Friday morning arriving about eight o’clock. This was almost too late! Most of the individuals were already fully emerged and in the process of drying.
There seemed to be numerous individuals of one species (I am unsure of its identity) and a very few individuals of a second species (chalk-fronted corporal, I think).
Here are the keepers from the morning:
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