{"id":12044,"date":"2019-05-24T06:38:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T10:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=12044"},"modified":"2019-05-24T06:38:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T10:38:24","slug":"first-dragonflies-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=12044","title":{"rendered":"First Dragonflies of the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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After seeing a few dragonflies in Florida when I visited Key West and the Dry Tortugas, and one dragonfly when in Ohio, I have been eagerly checking my local ponds for my first Maine dragon of the season. Earlier in the week I stopped by the Southern Maine Medical Center drainage ponds here in town, one of my most productive dragonfly spots over the years. Nothing happening. Yesterday, only a few days later, there were at least a dozen Common Green Darners hunting over the water and the adjacent parking lot. Green Darners are highly migrant and these are probably last year\u2019s darners returning from a winter spent further south, and they were mostly males, but I caught at least one pair in the act of depositing eggs in the reeds at the edge of the pond. Things are looking up! Sony RX10iv at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Polarr. <\/p>\n

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