Odes of Late Summer – Dragonflies of Lee Metcalf NWR
On Monday, Tom Forwood and I spent a couple of throughly enjoyable hours at the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge and Bass Creek. The first we found was a racer near my home along the Bitterrooot River (what a treat to have a racer stay still and pose). We had originally arrived thinking of birding, and to be sure we birded. We found lots of ID challenges with waterfowl in eclipse plumages and swarms of flycatching species. The real stars of the show were the dragonflies, which offer an entirely different set of identification challenges (especially for a color-blind dude like myself). In...
Read MoreDreamt I was a dragongfly lying by a stream
With slightly cooler temperatures, I spent some time next to the Bitterroot River in the company of multitudes of dragonflies and damselflies. They provide some extreme identification challenges, and heck, they are just plain cool to observe. The early noon yawns I shake off my dreams Dreamt I was a dragonfly lying by a stream But skin and bone awoke to my world of make-believe When I know I was a dragonfly dreaming that he’s me ~Wookiefoot
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