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POTD 6/29/24
DAMSELFLY LOVE - A pair of Ebony Jewelwing damselflies mating. Ebony Jewelwings are a species of broadwing damselfly. The male has a metallic blue-green body and black wings. The female is duller brown with smoky wings that have white spots near the tips. They mate in Summer. The male holds the female behind her head with his tail or abdomen. The Jewelwings are everywhere along the brook on the path to the beaver pond.
POTD 6/28/24
IT'S A BEAVER POND - The resident beaver pond beavers came out to remind me that it IS a beaver pond, after all.
POTD 6/27/24
FAMILY OUTING - Fledgling Red-bellied Woodpecker (left) waits patiently for adults, male (lower right) and female at the orange, to feed it.
POTD 6/26/24
DEFENSIVE POSTURE - A Heron chick stretches out to mimic it's surroundings. According to David Sibley, in birds of the Ardeidae family (which includes Herons), unprotected nestlings will assume a "bittern stance". extending their necks, mimicing the nest site they inhabit. I am seeing this behavior with the Heron chicks on the nest on the beaver pond with eagles being frequent visitors.
POTD 6/25/24
PRIMROSE ON THE BEAVER POND - Swamp Candles blooms on the beaver pond. Swamp Candles (Lysimachia terrestris) is in the Primrose family and displays it's showy flower spike on watersides from June to August.
