Field Guide

Here's my field guide, as available on Amazon. It features the famous Happy-face Dragonfly on the cover.

This field guide gives life-size photos of each species, and includes all the commonly seen dragonflies and damselflies in Western Washington. It also points out the most helpful field marks for identification. In addition, most of the material in my presentations if given here as well.

Here it is in Amazon:

And here's a look inside at some of the inside pages:

I hope you will find this guide helpful. It's the guide I would have loved to find when I started dragonflying.

North Cascades Institute Presentation

I gave a Zoom presentation on dragonflies for the North Cascades Institute yesterday evening. It was my first Zoom presentation, so it was kind of a new experience for me. What was weird was presenting material without being able to see the reaction of the audience. Fortunately I could see Emily and Shelby, the tech support from NCI, who stood in as my surrogates for the crowd.

As I say, this was an interesting experience for me. Here are some of the comments from participants:

•    Love the humor and the videos, especially the trailer.

•    That was fun! I'm a filmmaker, I'll help you make your movie.

•    Dragonflies are my spirit animal too.

•    I attend a lot of zooms, and this was one of the best. Thank you!!

I'm glad it went over well, especially since it was a first-time effort on my part.

Thanks to all from NCI, and especially Emily and Shelby, for their help and support. They did a great job!