Here's a late report from July 6, 2015. I spent a long weekend in Port Aransas for the holiday. On Monday morning I birded and counted dragonflies on the new southern extension of the Nature Preserve at Charlie's Pasture. Here's a summary of effort:
Start time: 8:04 AM
Duration: 3:04 hours
Distance covered: 1.3 miles
And here's my dragonfly list:
common_name | count -----------------------+------- Band-winged Dragonlet | 2 Common Green Darner | 1 Four-spotted Pennant | 1 Marl Pennant | 6 Needham's Skimmer | 4 Red Saddlebags | 4 Seaside Dragonlet | 200
It was fun seeing a few Marl Pennants near the entrance to the tract to the east, and then so many Seaside Dragonlets when the trail got out over the dwarf-glasswort-dominated tidal flats.
Here's my eBird list and attached are a few iNaturalist observations.
Female on Dwarf glasswort (Salicornia bigelovii).
Female. This is one of about 200 I observed in this tidal flats habitat with Dwarf Glasswort (Salicornia bigelovii) being one of the dominant plants.
These are habitat shots of where I observed an estimated 200 Seaside Dragonlets. One of the primary plants was Dwarf glasswort (Salicornia bigelovii).
Female. This is one of about 200 I observed in this tidal flats habitat with Dwarf Glasswort (Salicornia bigelovii) being one of the dominant plants.
Male. This is one of about 200 I observed in this tidal flats habitat with Dwarf Glasswort (Salicornia bigelovii) being one of the dominant plants.
Male on Dwarf glasswort (Salicornia bigelovii).
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Nice day for a dragonfly hunt! :)
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