Audubon – Various Locations

Date: May 29, 2008
Time: 4:15 – 5:15 p.m.
Observers: Jennifer Schlick, and many others
Weather Conditions: Warm (60s), sunny

Species Seen:

• Baskettail
• Common Green Darner
• Eastern Forktail
• A couple of other pond damsels – not sure which kind

Comments:

I’ve been co-leading an afterschool program for 4th graders.  We’ve dipped in the ponds, turned over logs, checked bird boxes…  We’ve been waiting for the weather to be warm enough and sunny enough to hunt dragons.  There were a few flying, and many emerging today.  Before the group arrived, I caught a Baskettail, which I photographed and released.  I might have kept it for an hour, if I had known it would be the only dragon capture we would have all day.  The kids caught plenty of damsels, though.