I was part of Jerry Lang and Dave Dister's group of six this afternoon as they hunted dragonflies and damselflies at their first location, the Muskegon Lake Nature Preserve. Later the rest of the group visited Lost Lake and Black Lake. Photos and a complete list of species recorded for the entire trip are posted on our homepage.
I know nothing about these bugs, so the walk was reminiscent the 1980's with people like Tim Hicks and Margaret Drake Elliott naming birds from brief glimpses and distant sounds. Today's guys were catching glimpses and checking books for bug names. Hopefully I got the captions right for these pictures:
Blue Dasher
12-Spotted Skimmer
Eastern Pondhawk
( Charlie's photo is posted on our homepage. )
(Part of my mind was able to pay attention to the birds, so I counted 22 species on this walk around the preserve. Of note were Common Yellowthroats singing their witchety-witcheties at half the normal pace and independent fly-overs by four closely-related cousins: Great Blue Heron, Green Heron, Great Egret and Least Bittern!)
- Ric
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