... and things with Wings

.. other things with wings often don't become obvious until morning birding has finished. I have had even less time to shorten focus onto the insects than I have had for morning birding. But there have been some.

(Caveat - please jump in if you think butterflies or dragonflies have been mis-ID'd.

From Putney Wetlands on May 30 - Eastern Least Clubtail and Common Baskettail ...

Eastern Least Clubtail

Common Baskettail

From Somerset June 30 -  White Admiral and Red-spotted Purple look distinctly different, but are actually the same species - Limenitis Arthemis. White Admirals were common. The second photo below is an intergrade between the two forms of the species ...

White Admiral

Intergrade between White Admiral and Red-spotted Purple

Red-spotted Purple - Philadelphia, 8/29/12

Additional photos from Somerset, June 30 ...

Chalf-fronted Corporal - male

Chalk-fronted Corporal - female

Elegant Spreadwing (?)

Common Whitetail - female

Enjoy the Outdoors!

Beaver Pond along Forest Route 71, Somerset, VT

More Things with Wings

Recent excursions to meadows and wetlands have yielded additional images of dragonflies and damselflies.

Halloween Pennant (Celithemis eponina, 1.5")

Halloween Pennant

Halloween Pennant (male and female)

Autumn Meadowhawk (Sympetrum vicinum, 1.3") - also named Yellow-legged Meadowhawk - (tentative ID)

Autumn Meadowhawk

White-faced Meadowhawk ( Sympetrum obtrusum, 1.3") - the most common dragonfly that I have seen this time of year.

White-faced Meadowhawk - mating pair

Eastern Least Clubtail (Stylogomphus albistylus) - I really puzzled over this ID, and it remains tentative - call it a notch above best guess ...

Eastern Least Clubtail

Northern Spreadwing ( Lestes disjuncus, 1.6") - aka Common Spreadwing - tentative ID

Northern Spreading

Canada Darner (Aeshna canadensis, 2.8") - Rarely have I spent so much time trying to get a photograph. This dragonfly was patrolling his patch of wetlands with unflagging energy, occasionally dipping to the water's surface, but never perching. Occasionally he hovered long enough to get a few reasonably focused photos ...

Canada Darner

The Spangled Skimmer has appeared in a previous post, but this is a much better pose ...

Spangled Skimmer

After straining for several hours to find and photograph dragonflies, I turned attention to chipping in a nearby shrub. A few "pishes" quickly brought a Common Yellowthroat out to investigate ...

Common Yellowthroat

Whatever you are looking for, have fun doing it!!