Dragonfly Day has become an annual event, in partnership with City of Gresham, that brings neighborhood and watershed families together to focus on some of the smaller species that depend on a healthy creek. This year the skies cleared up and the temperature warmed just in time to bring a number of damselflies and a few, very quick dragonflies out.
After a lesson on how to catch, hold for ID, and release odonates (dragonfly and damselfly are part of the odonata order), everyone was able to spread out while exploring the area and delightfully yell out, “Caught one!”. Age was not a determining factor for skill with the younger participants teaching the eager, older ones best techniques.
Dragonfly Day has always been more than catching and IDing odonates. It has and continues to be about community and our connection to nature. The watershed is healthiest when we are all part of it.
