Sheila McKee Memorial Park has been such an amazing spot for odes this year that when the weekend called for not one, but TWO clear days, I decided it was worth going back for a few hours and looking for more clubtails. I arrived around 10:00, and as usual a dragonfly had claimed the first sunny opening in the woods as its territory – however, unlike the Common Whitetail, Racket-tailed Emerald, and Black-shouldered Spinyleg of my previous visits, this one was a brilliant green Eastern Pondhawk actively darting around and landing on different leaves. I took one terrible photo of it sitting on a leaf above head-height, facing me. This was the only pondhawk I saw, so I’m glad I got a photo for iNaturalist.
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