{"id":4065,"date":"2018-06-22T21:30:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T01:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2018-06-22T21:46:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T01:46:36","slug":"slow-day-at-loverens-mill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=4065","title":{"rendered":"Slow Day at Loverens Mill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I headed to the Nature Conservancy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.org\/ourinitiatives\/regions\/northamerica\/unitedstates\/newhampshire\/places-preserves\/loverens-mill-cedar-swamp.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loverens Mill preserve<\/a>. Joan had been there earlier in the week and said that she had seen ebony jewelwings and &#8220;green-eyed dragonflies&#8221; (emeralds, perhaps?) there. The temperature was in the mid-70&#8217;s F, it was partly cloudy and essentially calm.<\/p>\n<p>It was a slow ode day. I saw exactly four damselflies (and no dragonflies) in the first couple of hours I was there: two ebony jewelwings and two drab brown teneral damsels (probably bluets of some sort). The drab brown individuals were the only odes I saw during my three trips along the boardwalk in the swamp proper.<\/p>\n<p>Things picked up a little bit when I walked the road. There were a few more brown damsels and, about three hours after I left the truck, I saw a single dragonfly, an immature male slaty skimmer.<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=582 &#8211; autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600\u00a0useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I headed to the Nature Conservancy&#8217;s Loverens Mill preserve. Joan had been there earlier in the week and said that she had seen ebony jewelwings and &#8220;green-eyed dragonflies&#8221; (emeralds, perhaps?) there. The temperature was in the mid-70&#8217;s F, it was partly cloudy and essentially calm. It was a slow ode day. I saw exactly [&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":[92,83,5,111,77],"tags":[13,12,42],"class_list":["post-4065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monadnock-region","category-nature-conservancy-properties","category-odontates","category-summer","category-wildflowers","tag-damselflies","tag-dragonflies","tag-wild-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065","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=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4074,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions\/4074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}