[birding] Stewart L.: dragonfly extravaganza (More info)

[Jamie S.]

I neglected to mention the best part of the lake to view the dragonflies:
-Go to the west side (turn left at the trail fork at the lawn end of the lake and follow the trail past the weir/dam) and get on the lakeside trail (smaller trail that goes along the lake shore--there's a garbage can on the left as soon as you get on that trail, and 3 or 4 benches along the trail). The first part of the trail (from where you first get to the lake until where the trail is slightly muddy, then climbs away from the shore) is the best part.
-They are also seen from the lawn at the south end, but harder to get perched views of since there's no vegetation there other than lawn.
-Also along the shore on the east side after the lawn ends.
 
With new identification skills, Neil Lidstrom and I spent over a half hour today tackling the Blue Dasher vs. Western Pondhawk ID challenge. We saw many; all males were Blue Dashers. We saw one female Western Pondhawk. The Blue dasher has a white face (front knob between the green eyes) while Western Pondhawk has a green face. We saw no green faces, but there are a few around.
 
Jamie

--- On Wed, 7/15/09, Jamie S. <woodpecker97330 at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Jamie S. <woodpecker97330 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [birding] Stewart Lake: dragonfly extravaganza
To: "post to list midvalleybirding" <list at midvalleybirding.org>, "Mid-valley-nature" <mid-valley-nature at googlegroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 11:30 AM








Dragonflies at Stewart Lake (HP) have been abundant on warm sunny days. (On cool days--such as Monday--we see none or very few.)
 
Yesterday (Tue 7/14) we saw:
-Eight-spotted Skimmer (common)
-Cardinal Meadowhawk (at least 3 males, 1 female)
-Blue Dasher (I'm still working on figuring out the differences between this and the next one. I know we have both; not sure about relative abundance. There are a lot of one or the other or both!)
-Western Pondhawk
-Common Green Darner (2; not seen daily)
-Common Whitetail - at least 1 male
-Widow Skimmer (at least 2 males, 1 female)
 
Friday (7/10) there was a male Flame Skimmer. We also had California Darner last week.
 
Damselflies: Pacific Forktail & Tule Bluet
 
I'm out just about every weekday, usually about 12:05 to 12:50. Email if you'd like to meet there, though you don't need me to visit.
 
Jamie Simmons
Corvallis

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