Field Fragments: mid June 2026

The last official day of spring on Lake Rupert felt like paddling through a Monet painting.

Summer Solstice dawned foggy at Dow Lake, which made for some gorgeous spiderwebs. It took me a while to paddle around this trio and figure out that backlit by the sun was coolest shot.

And today felt like the last day cool enough to make the sunny parts of the bike path fun as dog-day cicadas start easing into song.

I spent most of my outdoors time this week obsessively recording dragonfly and damselfly species, but I looked up long enough to enjoy this Yellow Warbler flitting through the canopy. I also saw the most gorgeous male Scarlet Tanager, but he moved so fast the only photo I got was with my eyes.

And, of course, I looked at lots and lots of Odonata. More about them in my next post…