This afternoon, about two o’clock, I headed out for a short walk. My destination was the outlet of “our” wetland. This brook crosses the road across the Harris Center property on Brimstone Corner Rd (in Antrim) roughly a couple of dozen feet below the beaver dam. I spent about two hours total in the field.
The weather was mostly sunny and the temperature was in the upper seventies. A perfect summer afternoon in New Hampshire.
As I hoped there were odes in the sunny patches along the road, in the old log yard and around the brook. The numbers of individuals were small; only three or four individuals maximum of each species were observed This seems to be the rule this summer… small numbers of individuals but a good variety of species.
I observed the following species of dragonflies: blue dashers (both male and female), calico pennants (both male and female), a female meadowhawk and a few male frosted whitefaces. I also saw a few damselflies: a single spreadwing, and few bluets and a lone ebony jewelwing.
I made photographs of all of these species except for the jewelwing.
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Now that’s what I was talking about – the Odes! Still got your touch with this delicate critters. . .
Comment by Joe Kennedy — 26 July 2019 @ 2:45 PM