{"id":4112,"date":"2018-07-22T13:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=4112"},"modified":"2018-07-22T12:42:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T16:42:59","slug":"bonnyvale-odes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=4112","title":{"rendered":"Bonnyvale Odes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a couple of weeks (4 August to be exact) I will be teaching a workshop titled “Photography of Dragonflies and Damselflies<\/a>” and cosponsored by the Vermont Center for Photography and the Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center<\/a>\u00a0(BEEC).<\/p>\n

Yesterday afternoon, I made a trip to the BEEC to scout out the odes there ahead of the workshop. The temperature was in the mid-70’s F, there were a few very scattered clouds and a slight breeze blowing, just enough to add challenge to photographing insects perched on tall grasses!<\/p>\n

There were a couple of immature (i.e. orange-ish) meadowhawks flying over the fields. While walking in a field of tall grasses, one often flushes small birds. Yesterday, was no exception.\u00a0 However, yesterday I also flushed a large deer. It jumped up from where it had been laying not more that twenty five feet from me and I nearly jumped out of my skin!<\/p>\n

There is a very small (maybe twelve feet in diameter) pond in the lower field which contained dozens of bluets of two different species, including a number of ovipositing pairs. There was also a single male common whitetail that spent most of its time cruising the perimeter of the pond and only rarely perching and then for only a short interval. Very frustrating for photographers!<\/p>\n

Across the road from the BEEC buildings and a short walk away, is another small pond. There were a number (maybe six or eight) of what I think were blue dashers out over the pond and perching on the cattails out in the middle. Having donned my rubber boots, I began to venture out into the shallow pond to photograph them. However, I quickly turned around. There was no solid bottom only that semi-solid, boot-grabbing muck that one often finds in small ponds. In the vegetation around the margin of this pond I found two male meadowhawks and a single teneral spreadwing.<\/p>\n

I think that there will be enough ode activity for our workshop but I will be looking (with help from the BEEC staff) for another nearby site as backup.<\/p>\n

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