Maple West Pond – Audubon – Jamestown, NY

Date:  July 30, 2007
Time:  2:15-2:45
Observers:  Jennifer Schlick, John Wilson, Kimberly Green, Robert Lincoln, Kathleen Carolus, Caleb Johnson
Weather:  hot (mid 80s), very light breeze, sunny

Species Seen:

• Widow Skimmer
• Twelve-spotted Skimmer
• Meadowhawk
• Eastern Forktail
• Fragile Forktail
• Slender Spreadwing
• Common Whitetail
• Eastern Pondhawk
• Unknown Bluet

Comments:
It was just a day for dragonfly eggs.  After seeing the Pondhawk at Turtle Pond (see previous post), now we saw a Meadowhawk species with eggs.  In this species, the eggs came out in two rows, single, not at all sticky.  The speed and manner that they came out reminded me of Lucy and Ethyl in the candy factory.