{"id":535,"date":"2011-07-08T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=535"},"modified":"2011-07-08T11:55:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:55:43","slug":"ebony-jewelwings-at-loverens-mill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"Ebony Jewelwings at Loveren&#8217;s Mill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (i.e. Thursday) afternoon I headed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.org\/ourinitiatives\/regions\/northamerica\/unitedstates\/newhampshire\/placesweprotect\/loverens-mill-cedar-swamp.xml\">Loveren&#8217;s Mill<\/a>, a nearby Nature Conservancy property. In previous years I had found ebony jewelwings to be common along the river there and I was not disappointed on this trip. The numbers of individuals was not large but they were, by far, the most common species present. Interestingly, I saw only males.<\/p>\n<p>I also noted an occasional dragonfly out cruising over the river but they were too far away and moving too fast to identify much less photograph. I was surprised by the lack of odes on my walk back to the cedar swamp. Often there are darners in the woods and other dragonflies along the road but I saw none this trip. I did see one small brown damselfly on the boardwalk that extends out in to the swamp but the photograph I got is uninteresting.<\/p>\n<p>Around six, I headed back to the truck as the mosquitoes were beginning to get bothersome. Whether it was the hour or the fact that my &#8220;woodsman&#8217;s cologne&#8221; (i.e. &#8221; bug dope&#8221;) was wearing off I can not say&#8230; most probably a combination of the two!<\/p>\n<p>At the edge of the parking area I noticed two ebony jewelwings actively feeding on mosquitoes and spent some time photographing them. Of course, the mosquitoes were also actively feeding&#8230;on me!<\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=64]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (i.e. Thursday) afternoon I headed to Loveren&#8217;s Mill, a nearby Nature Conservancy property. In previous years I had found ebony jewelwings to be common along the river there and I was not disappointed on this trip. The numbers of individuals was not large but they were, by far, the most common species present. Interestingly, [&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":[83,5],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-conservancy-properties","category-odontates","tag-damselflies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","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=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}