Pine Hill State Forest, Randolph NY

Date:  Sunday, June 24, 2007
Time:  1:30-2:30 p.m.
Weather:  Sunny, hot
Observers:  Jennifer Schlick, Lolli, Terry Saye, Mozart

Species Seen:

• Twelve-spotted Skimmer
• Frosted Whiteface
• Eastern Forktail
• Unicorn Clubtail

Comments:
Almost didn’t even know this pond was here!  After hiking a trail that is part of the DEC Pine Forest Reforestation area, we came back to the car to find several other cars parked near mine, and folks climbing an embankment with fishing poles.

Keyser Lake, Randolph NY

Date:  Sunday, June 24, 2007
Time:  3:30-4:30 p.m.
Weather:  Sunny, hot, breezy
Observers:  Jennifer Schlick, Lolli

Species Seen:

• Prince Baskettail
• Common Baskettail
• Rainbow Bluet
• Variable Dancer
• Calico Pennant
• Marsh Bluet
• Unnamed Clubtail who wouldn’t let me catch him!

Comments:
I actually think there may have been two different clubtails.  They were moving rather fast and eluding me in the breeze.  I think I saw a Unicorn Clubtail.  Perhaps the other was the Lancet.  I caught and photographed one of those the last time I was at this site.

Big Field, Audubon, Jamestown NY

Date:  June 21, 2007 (The Summer Solstice!)
Time:  3:30-4:30 p.m.
Weather:  Sunny, brisk breeze, high 60s – low 70s?
Observers:  Jennifer Schlick, Kim Greene, Sarah Hatfield, Jeff Tome

Species Seen:

• Twelve-spotted Skimmer
• Dot-tailed Whiteface
• Some sort of Bluet
• Slender Spreadwing
• Spatterdock Darner

Comments:
The Darner is the big news!  It’s listed as “Endangered” in the Massachusetts field guide and a “Species of Greatest Conservation Need” in New York State.  Sarah, Kim, and Jennifer actually saw it for the first time on June 20th and got the photo you see here.  We had no nets.  Kim, Jeff, and Jennifer went out again on the 21st, but couldn’t catch it.  Sarah and Kim finally caught it on the 22nd and got more photos to verify the species.

We are 99.9% sure on the ID: the bright blue eyes, the stripes, the behavior, the flight season.  But please, if you think you know differently, let us know!!!

Spatterdock Pond, Audubon, Jamestown NY

Date:  June 19, 2007
Time:  1:45-2:45
Weather:  partly sunny, humid, hot…  just after AND before:  Thunderstorms!!
Observers:  Jennifer Schlick, Kimberly Greene, John House

Species Seen:

• Twelve-spotted Skimmer
• Widow Skimmer
• Common Whitetail
• Elegant Spreadwing
• Ebony Jewelwing
• Common Green Darner
• Blue Dasher
• Black Saddlebags

Comments:
We had thunderstorms on and off all day.  At one point, the power was knocked out, so we couldn’t do anything on the computers…  and the sun broke through… So we grabbed nets and headed out.  We got about an hour of survey time in before the next thunderstorm rolled in.

I really wish I had had a video camera so you could see Kim catching this Ebony Jewelwing.  It was a precious moment captured only in my memory.

Keyser Lake, Randolph NY

Date:  Saturday, June 16, 2007
Time:  8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Weather:  Warm, still, sunny morning with a little mist
Observer:  Jennifer Schlick

Species Seen:

• Eastern Forktail
• Rainbow Bluet
• Lancet Clubtail (I think)
• Prince Baskettail

Comments:
Later in the day I also saw Calico Pennants and some big guys – maybe more clubtails?  But I didn’t have a net…

I did this survey in the morning of our Staff Reunion at the camp where I spent many summers as a child and one summer as a counselor.

Big Pond Dike, Audubon, Jamestown NY

Date:  Thursday, June 14, 2007
Time:  1:00pm – 2:00pm
Weather:  Sunny, some clouds, breezy, mid to high 70s
Observers: Jennifer Schlick, Jeff Tome

Species Seen:

• Black Saddlebags
• Unicorn Clubtail
• Common Whitetail
• Twelve-spotted Skimmer
• Eastern Forktail
• Common Baskettail
• Eastern Pondhawk
• Marsh Bluet
• Unicorn Clubtail
• Widow Skimmer
• Common Green Darner

Maple West Pond, Audubon, Jamestown NY

Date: June 14, 2007
Time:  3:15-4:45 p.m.
Weather Conditions: sunny, some clouds, high 70s
Observers: Jennifer Schlick, Suzi Strakosh, Kimberly Greene, John Wilson

Species Seen:

• Dot-tailed Whiteface
• Common Whitetail
• Twelve-spotted Skimmer
• Widow Skimmer
• Eastern Pondhawk
• Unicorn Clubtail
• Common Green Darner
• Blue Dasher
• Elegant Spreadwing
• Amber-winged Spreadwing
• Eastern Forktail
• Meadowhawk tenerals

Comments:
Kim caught an Amber-winged Spreadwing. That was the first time I had seen one. Yeah, Kim! Even though it was hot and we were all tired and thirsty, we stayed until John (finally!) caught a dragonfly.  Yeah John!!! (Sorry, Suzi… I guess I didn’t get a picture of you with a dragon.)

Bergman Park, Baker St., Jamestown NY

Date:  June 9, 2007
Time:  6:00pm – 7:00pm
Weather:  Sunny, light breeze, mid 70s
Observers: Jennifer Schlick, Bob Schlick, Lolli

Species Seen:

• Twelve-spotted Skimmer
• Widow Skimmer
• Common Whitetail

Comments:
I didn’t intend to survey… just walk the dog, take a few pictures.  But the woods was full of tenerals of these three species.  This is a rich, wet (spring-fed) deciduous woods with a couple of rocky streams.  It seemed an unlikely place for these guys… still:  there they were!

Turtle Pond West, Audubon, Jamestown NY

Date:  June 7, 2007
Time:  3:30-4:15 p.m.
Weather Conditions:  sunny, breezy, 80’s
Observers:  Jennifer Schlick, Kimberly Greene

Species Seen:

• Common Whitetail
• Twelve-spotted Skimmer
• Unicorn Clubtail
• Common Baskettail
• Common Green Darner
• Dot-tailed Whiteface

Comments: