Join Carl Martland as he shares his love of dragonflies with us. Go to a pond or a stream any sunny day in the summer and you will see dragonflies and damselflies. Some will be posing for a few seconds on rocks, logs, wildflowers, shrubs or anything else that could serve as a perch. Others will just be flying back and forth, seldom if ever landing, in and out along the shoreline or in and around the cattails. Most will be colorful, and some will have astounding patterns or splashes of color on their bodies or their wings.

Carl is an amateur observer of nature, but he has a camera with a powerful zoom, is patient, and spends a lot of time watching and taking photos of dragonflies. And he has figured out how to organize his notes and photos so that he can quickly find whatever he is looking for. So, his presentation will be filled with photos of the more than two dozen species of dragonflies that you too could find in the fields and wetlands near wherever you live in the North Country.

Register: This hybrid program is free to the public. Registration is required for entrance and can be completed at the link below.

(Registration will close on Feb 3. Not yet a member or not sure if you've renewed your membership? Sign up for a membership here, starting at only $45/year, and receive future discounts, or contact tripley@forestsociety.org with questions.)

About the Presenters:

Carl Martland was a Senior Research Associate and Lecturer in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering from 1972 to 2007.  Since retiring, he and his wife Nancy have been full-time residents of Sugar Hill and active in volunteer efforts in the region.  He spends a lot of time outdoors, and he always carries a camera and makes notes in a little journal he keeps in his back pocket.  In 2015, he published his most interesting observations in Sugar Hill Days:  What’s Happening in the Fields, Wetlands, and Forests of a Small New Hampshire Town on the Western Slopes of the White Mountains.  Since 2021, he has assembled photos, quotes from his journals, and thoughts about nature in a blog called Phenological Phacts and Photos that is published monthly in the Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust’s newsletter.