5-25 Jamestown Audubon
I had a nice morning walk at the Jamestown Audubon today. The first part of the morning I had fun looking for wildflowers with Jeff, one of their naturalists. He showed me a most beautiful Pink Ladies Slipper. After that I spent an hour looking for dragonflies. I got most of the usual ones for this time of year.
- Eastern Forktail
- Dot-tailed Whiteface
- Common Whitetail
- Widow Skimmer
- Sedge Sprite
- Slender Spreadwing
- 12-Spotted Skimmer
- Black Saddlebags
- Common Green Darner
- Fragile Forktail
winterwoman said,
May 25, 2007 at 7:16 pm
I was going to try to do a datasheet today, too. But when I got back from doing school visits, it had rained, and not much was out. Lots of darners and forktails… and one puzzling brownish non-descript thing that wouldn’t let us catch it. I suspect a baskettail. I want it to be a beaverpond baskettail… but maybe it was a clear wing variety of common baskettail. You didn’t see any of those???
Jeremy Martin said,
May 25, 2007 at 9:49 pm
I did find common baskettails at Clay Pond in the evening. Tomorrow I will try to get out of the house early enough to watch some emerge (depending on the weather) at the RTPI pond. Later I might go to the bog for a bit!
mon@rch said,
May 25, 2007 at 9:55 pm
such wonderful list of dragonflies and must be getting close to summer with all these guys flying already! Love the lady slippers!