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Updates Sunday, September 26, 2004 In the daily activities of being me I take countless images with my digital cameras. Some stick out as interesting for one reason or another. Here are a few Images that caught my interest this week, Hope you enjoy them...  Click on image for a larger view. All photos  © D. H. Small 2004 please use only with permission

September 24, 2004 Nestled among Autumn colors  this American Copper seemed appropriate image for the first fall weekend,  nearby an Eastern-tailed Blue bounced among the foliage

September 22, 2004  80 degree temps and clear skies brought out my first Autumn Butterflies.  These were sharing a damp gravel section of Moosehorn Road in New Salem. Compton's Tortoiseshell and Mourning Cloak

Common Checkered Skipper Northampton Community Gardens September 18, 2004 Thanks to Bill Benner for finding the Skipper and to Tom Gagnon for another great trip...

Mom and a pair of Young Moose at Gate 39 Quabbin  July 20, 2004 More Moose

Milbert's Tortoiseshell at North Quabbin Garden Tour July 18th 2004

Maine Snaketail Ophiogomphus mainensis on  East Branch Swift River Petersham July 11, 2004

Large Saturnid Telea polyphemus.on the New Salem Office wall June 22, 2004

Beaver Pond Clubtail 6-7-2004

Millers River Ode Survey Began on May 21st Tom Murray accompanied me and provides this neat photo account: http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/millers_river

Mature male Ebony Boghaunter 5-17-2004 Quabbin (State Endangered)

Teneral male Common Whitetail in North 5-15-2004

Harvester on the banks of the Millers River in Erving

Harvester Peppersmill Pond in Quabbin Park 5-11-2005

Green Heron gate 37 Quabbin - May 10th 2004

Henry's Elfin with several Brown Elfins May 7th  South Spectacle Pond Gate 34 Quabbin

A great way to start the month of May is with a Life Dragonfly  Ringed Boghaunter Williamsonia lintneri   Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge  May 1st 2004 Thanks to Tom Murray for guiding us to this wonderful insect.  Mating American Toads chorused along the refuge trail

Cicindela scuterlaris Smooth Tiger Beetle on the Refuge road

Earlier in the Day of May - First a Painted Trillium in Wendell

3 Images from the Last day of April My First netted Ode, First Gray Tree Frog, and a large Snapping Turtle All near the Spectacle Ponds in New Salem April 30, 2004 My first netted Ode of the season a very teneral Baskettail probably BeaverPond

Gray Tree Frog near Gate 33 Hiding in Plain Site

Gate 34 found this Snapper crossing the road

Black Racer April 09, 2004 in the New Salem Section of Quabbin  My first snake of the season