{"id":3471,"date":"2016-07-18T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2016-07-18T16:41:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T20:41:25","slug":"down-back-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=3471","title":{"rendered":"Down Back, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday (18 July) afternoon I headed down back to the beaver-made wetland complex at the back of our property.<\/p>\n

As I headed out, I got distracted by the butterflies on the flowers in the beds around the yard. I in the middle of photographing butterflies, I \u00a0spent some time stalking a small orangeish dragonfly but I was not able to make a photo. After this dragonfly vanished for good, and as I was about to stand up to move on, I noticed that a small robberfly had landed on the perch last used by ode. Of course, I had to photograph it!<\/p>\n

Eventually, I did wander down the hill to the natural habitat of the beaver pond and wet meadow.<\/p>\n

New, since my last trip down back, was the presence of darners. I am not sure of the exact species. They were patrolling over both the pond and the wet meadow. The numbers were not large; I saw maybe half a dozen.<\/p>\n

By far, the most common\u00a0ode present were frosted whitefaces. They were mostly patrolling over the pond. However, every once in a while one would perch near me and I was able to make a photograph. The numbers were way down compared to my last visit (on 2 July, see this post<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I also observed \u00a0two sprites (either sphagnum\u00a0or sedge) deep down among the vegetation along the pond. Neither were able to be photographed.<\/p>\n

Out over the meadow there were a small number of calico pennants. As with the frosted whitefaces, the number of pennants are way down from a couple of weeks ago. However the individuals present were all actively feeding. I watched \u00a0(and photographed) one individual for about fifteen minutes. During that time, I watched it make dozens of hunting forays always returning to the same perch. It was successful on about\u00a0half of its hunts.<\/p>\n

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