Keyser Lake, Randolph NY

Date:  Sunday, June 15, 2008
Time:  2:30pm – 3:30pm
Observers:  Just me
Weather Conditions:  Sunny, warm, very breezy

Species Seen:

• Common Baskettail
• Eastern Forktail
• Sedge Sprite
• Variable Dancer
• Twelve-spotted Skimmer
• Common Whitetail
• Frosted Whiteface
• Prince Baskettail
• Lancet Clubtail (I think)
• Calico Pennant
• Widow Skimmer

Baskettails can be tricky to ID.

 
This is a male.

For Baskettails, you must examine the shape of the terminal appendage – from a side view!  This shape matches the picture in the field guide for the Common Baskettail.

 

 

 

Comments:
Sure wish those clubtails would let me close enough to catch one and verify the species!