Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Azure Bluet

Enallagma aspersum. First I’ve seen in Brooklyn.
This is a male. It was uphill of one of Green-Wood’s ponds. (I have seen these in the Bronx and Queens.)

Other Odonates seen so far in NYC: Common Green Darner, Fragile Forktail, Black Saddlebags, Eastern Forktail, Blue Dasher, Familiar Forktail (tentative ID), Painted Skimmer, and one of the Pantala gliders.

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