September 26, 2026 — Dane County
Esser Pond (near corner of Deming Way and Greenway Blvd) -a shallow pond now chock full of American lotus, ringed with dense cattails, then surrounded by a scrappy weed field/prairie - can't really get to the water any more
Common Green Darner (Anax junius)
Observed
one flew by
Band-winged Meadowhawk (
Sympetrum semicinctum)
Photographed
two males in the weedy part