While out for a walk along Bog Meadow Nature Trail today, I spotted the greenest dragonfly I have ever seen, and I actually got a pretty good photo of it. How lucky, too, that I found it perching over brown sand instead of hidden among green leaves. Over the phone, my friend Sue talked me through the pages of the
Stokes Beginners Guide to Dragonflies, and we decided this either a female or an immature male Eastern Pondhawk (
Erithemis simplicicollis).
This blog's readers may remember that I posted a photo of an adult
male Eastern Pondhawk not too long ago, and I'm reposting that photo so we can have a complete set here. Note that both sexes have bright green faces and white appendages at the ends of their abdomens.
