September 16, 2023 — Dane County
Tiedeman Pond is a kettle pond, now quite heavily engineered to handle water flowing from neighborhoods to Lake Mendota. It has some emergent vegetation and cattail marsh edges.
Lance-tipped Darner (
Aeshna constricta)
Photographed
one female very busy ovipositing in grass stems
Blue Dasher (
Pachydiplax longipennis)
Photographed
I thought blue dashers would be on their last legs now but instead I saw three or four very young individuals.
Eastern Forktail (Ischnura verticalis)
Observed
Familiar Bluet (Enallagma civile)
Observed