Well, the winter’s firewood is finally stacked… all 10 plus cords. Now I have some time and energy to get out and photograph the odes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This afternoon, I had lunch with my friend Victor at the Common Place in Bennington (NH). After we parted ways, I stopped at the canoe\/kayak launch on the Contoocook River by the papermill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have never looked for odes here before but I will be stopping there more often going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This site is just downstream from the papermill’s last dam. Just below the dam there is a small falls\/rapids and then, after the drop, there is a stretch of fast moving, rocky bottomed river. There are also a number of backwaters with essentially still water and muddy bottoms. A very different habitat than I usually visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The weather was mostly sunny and the temperature was in the mid-80s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I spent about an hour, covered no more than 200 feet of river and observed eight different species of odes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The damselflies I saw were: powdered dancers (one of each sex, I think; this is a new species for me), a couple of male ebony jewelwings and a single male stream bluet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As for the dragonflies, the most abundant were male common whitetails; there were many dozens of them, but no females. Next most abundant were spangled skimmers, I saw roughly a dozen of them; all males again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also observed single individuals of the following species: dragonhunter, twelve-spotted skimmer and slaty skimmer. Again, these were all males.<\/p>\n\n\n
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