{"id":3801,"date":"2017-08-25T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=3801"},"modified":"2017-08-25T10:10:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T14:10:35","slug":"american-rubysopts-2017-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=3801","title":{"rendered":"American Rubyspots &#8211; 2017 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago (minus a few days) I drove roughly an hour and fifteen minutes to photograph <a href=\"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=3163\">American Rubyspots in Athol, Mass<\/a>. Ever since then, I have been wanting to find Rubyspots in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>Last spring, I met Chris from Hollis, NH at a <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.unh.edu\/Volunteer\/New-Hampshire-Coverts-Project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NH Coverts<\/a> program. He told me of a spot in his home town where this species could be found and a few days ago he emailed to inform me that he had seen and photographed rubyspots there this past week.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, yesterday afternoon I made the trip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beaverbrook.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beaver Brook Association<\/a>&#8216;s reservation in Hollis. It was only an hours drive and the site (where Brookline Road crosses the Nissitissit River) lies roughly a hundred yards north of the Mass. line.<\/p>\n<p>As Chris promised, American Rubyspots were easy to find. I saw roughly a dozen individuals, mostly male but there were also one or two females present. I also saw a couple of male variable dancers and numerous meadowhawks (mostly male and probably Autumn Meadowhawks) along the edge of the parking area. Additionally, there was a single spreadwing mixed in with the rubyspots low along the river&#8217;s edge.<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=530 &#8211; autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600\u00a0useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago (minus a few days) I drove roughly an hour and fifteen minutes to photograph American Rubyspots in Athol, Mass. Ever since then, I have been wanting to find Rubyspots in New Hampshire. Last spring, I met Chris from Hollis, NH at a NH Coverts program. He told me of a spot in [&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":[5,111,3],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odontates","category-summer","category-wildlife","tag-damselflies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801","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=3801"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3806,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions\/3806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}