{"id":3442,"date":"2016-06-26T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2016-06-26T14:25:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T18:25:41","slug":"contookook-river-odes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=3442","title":{"rendered":"Contookook River Odes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late last Friday (24 Jun) afternoon, I tossed my waders and camera into my truck and took a short drive to the Contookook River near the paper mill in Bennington, NH. I spent a couple of hours wading the shallows on the east bank immediately adjacent to the paper mill&#8217;s lawn.<\/p>\n<p>There were three species of damselflies present low in the emergent vegetation. Stream bluets, Eastern forktails and a second Bluet (which I can not positively identify). The stream bluets were, by far, the most abundant and\u00a0it was clearly mating time for them. I observed two mating wheels and a third pair flying in tandem.<\/p>\n<p>Flying (and occasionally perching) higher up on the back were small numbers of male twelve-spotted skimmers and a lone\u00a0male common whitetail (which I did not get a photograph of).<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=448 &#8211; autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600\u00a0useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last Friday (24 Jun) afternoon, I tossed my waders and camera into my truck and took a short drive to the Contookook River near the paper mill in Bennington, NH. I spent a couple of hours wading the shallows on the east bank immediately adjacent to the paper mill&#8217;s lawn. There were three species [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[92,5],"tags":[13,12],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monadnock-region","category-odontates","tag-damselflies","tag-dragonflies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3444,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/3444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}