Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens – 2
/Continuing the posts about our hike at Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens in Washington DC…today the topic is dragonflies.
I tried to photograph the insects from different perspectives than my usual…for interest rather than identification. The very last picture I took is an example; I can’t identify the species but the pictures is interesting because it appears that one of the hind wings is broken. The insect flew to the twig just before I photographed it!
All my identifications are tentative. I’m not an expert but I try to group the photos that look to be the same species together.
There were lots of Blue Dashers in different positions.
I got both male and female Common Whitetail Skimmer.
There were Slaty Skimmers.
And a Widow Skimmer.
Note – The sites I used for identification are: Insect Identification (Maryland) and out DNR’s Common Dragonflies of Maryland. I enjoyed comparing the species I saw at Howard County Conservancy a few weeks ago with the ones I saw at Kenilworth:
Blue Dasher (Kenilworth)
Common whitetail skimmer (both)
Eastern pondhawk (Howard County Conservancy Mt Pleasant)
Ebony jewelwing (Howard Country Conservancy)
Slaty Skimmer (Kenilworth)
Window skimmer (both)
