Didn't get a lot of photos because I was tramping around in the woods behind the house without my camera for about an hour. It was sunny and 78F.

Despite the fact that there is no standing water, I saw two Fragile Forktails, Ischnura posita: 1 male and 1 female in the woods.
I also observed a beautiful Phidippus whitmani which are very common in our woods. They particularly seem to like the woods just beyond the back fence.

There was also a Anasaitis canosa (Twin-flagged Jumper) just off of one of the trails in the leaf litter. It was in the area where years ago there used to be a sphagnum moss bog. Past hurricanes blew out the ridges of dirt which had previously held in the water so it's been at least 10 years if not more since the bogs dried out (sadly). Anyway, that's the area the jumping spider was exploring. The last three years of drought around here also didn't help and really dried out our woods which used to be quite boggy with a lot of ephemeral puddles/ponds. Now it is pretty much all dry land back there.

Around 3PM I went to the ditch at the edge of our woods where there is still a trickle of water. There were 3 Fragile Forktails there: 2 females and one male. I did get some photos of the females and will (hopefully post those).

Some butterflies are also starting to appear. I saw a Gulf fritillary, Agraulis vanillae, at the overgrown side of the driveway where I saw them all last summer. The Epargyreus clarus, the silver-spotted skipper, is also fluttering around along the weedy ditches and fields and has been for at least a week now.

I didn't get photos of most of these but I wanted to record my sightings anyway, even without photographic evidence.

Weather: 78F - warm although a little windy
March 3, 2023 - Saw three Ischnura prognata (Furtive Forktails) for the first time this season. Surprisingly, one was flitting around a drainage ditch that is in the woods by our house. There is still a little water in the ditch so I had already seen several Ischnura posita in that area.

In the swamp, I saw two more as well as over 50 I. posita.

March 4, 2023 - Saw an immature female Ischnura hastata (Citrine Forktail) in the sunny marsh (cutover) by the third stream. In the woods of the swamp, I also saw an immature Ischnura prognata and it was a good opportunity to see just how large it was in comparison to Ischnura posita because for some reason, a male I. posita was darting at the I. prognata. She chased it off twice before the I. posita finally got the message and flitted away.

All of the Ischnura species I observed were tapping on curved blades of grass or sedges. Several dislodged mosquitoes that way and consumed them. (I need to figure out a way to video this hunting technique with hopefully a successful conclusion.)

Further in the wooded swamp along the second stream, a male Ischnura prognata had gotten entangled in a spider's web. It thrashed around and finally got free although a small bit of web was clinging to its wing. It perched nearby and thrashed some more to dislodge the webbing and then flitted away (hopefully to live a long and productive life).

There must have been over 100 (I counted 100+) I. posita everywhere both in the sunny wet areas and along all of the streams in the swamp. Many females had gray pruinose coloring to the point where it obscured or almost obscured the paler blue ! line on their thoraxes. They were ovipositing like crazy where there was submerged or partially submerged vegetation in the puddles and streams.

I've seen a few dragonflies but they were all just dark silhouettes and didn't land where I could see them. Since I saw them along dirt roads in the woods, I believe they may be Common Green Darners, Anax junius like the one I saw in February in Carteret County. They tend to be out early in the year and can be found along dirt roads so it seems likely, although not confirmed.

57 F degrees, sunny, around 3 to 4 PM

A tip from @m_shields
Distinguishing between Common and Slender can be difficult. In this specimen, the outward bends in the cerci occur closer to the tip (about 2/3 down the length of cerci) than the base, which is typical of Common. In Slender, the bend occurs closer to the base (about 1/3 down the length). This difference is best seen in dorsal view.

I was surprised to see so many baskettails on the Ponderosa trail here which is basically a dirt road through some swampy mixed hardwood and pine woods. There wasn't any water along the road itself but there are ditches with water along the logging road which intersects with the trail road. There were no baskettails near those ditches however--they were all on the trail. The trail is open with a lot of sunshine though so it's not gloomy and the dragonflies were more towards the small opening area near the beginning of the trail where it is very meadow-like.

There were also 2 Blue Corporals in that same area.