Terry’s Backyard, Bemus Point, NY

Date: April 30, 2008
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Observers: Jennifer Schlick, Terry Saye, Mozart
Weather Conditions: Cool (50s), sunny

Species Seen:

• Beaverpond Baskettail

Comments:
I’ve been seeing Common Green Darners which I assume are returning migrants, and emerging forktails by the droves near the ponds at Audubon.  This is the first stout-bodied dragon I’ve seen this spring.  It was a teneral, and I didn’t have my books with me…  I forgot to photograph the terminal appendage.  It may be a Common Baskettail.  I don’t really know for sure.  But when I did check my books, it looked like the Beaverpond starts emerging a tiny bit earlier than the Common, so that’s why I picked it.  If it is a Beaverpond Baskettail, the eyes will get blue as the teneral body matures.