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  1. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    I went to the Hampshire coast yesterday (17.11.23) No luck with any Vagrant Emperors or Green Darners but a couple of male Common Darters sunning themselves. There are no frosts in the local forecast in the next two weeks so there should still be some flying in December.
  2. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    There must be a few of the 'listers' who need this one!
  3. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    I had the latest for the UK last year on 9th October - last dates for the UK usually around this but sometimes a little later. Mine was my latest by 29 days !
  4. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    Eventually caught up with Golden-ringed Dragonfly for the year in the New Forest yesterday (06.08.23). This male's wings hadn't fully formed but he seemed to fly OK. Also obligatory Southern Damselfy and Keeled Skimmer pics. Emperor Dragonfly, Southern, Migrant and Brown Hawkers, Common Darter...
  5. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    Thanks, Martin. As the weather is turning I may just go to Dames Slough tomorrow morning for White-legged and wait for the sun to re-appear before searching for Scarce BT!
  6. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    Added Brown Hawker for the year yesterday (18.07) at Lower Test (Hants) but they all went past too fast and too distant for the macro lens. Still a few Southern Damselflies although we're three weeks past the peak now so numbers are reducing. Of the species I would have expected to see by now...
  7. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    Still not exactly sure which one is the Aeroplane field - I walk in from Botley Road, then along the narrow footpath between two fields with no access and barbed wire fences either side and then into the next field which is well vegetated and has Bog bush-crickets despite it being dry as a bone...
  8. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    If it was May then almost certainly Red-veined Darters (or something rarer) but once you get 10 days into June there will likely be some Common Darters flying so it gets trickier. Any male Red-veined Darter flying in June will be a deep dark red as opposed to the orangey red of a Common Darter...
  9. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    Now back in blighty I checked my records and in 2014 I had Keeled Skimmer records on 2 dates, 09.07 on Emer Bog itself and on 14.07 in the small area in SU388211 where the stream forms a small boggy area. Every year I tell myself I must visit the site more often and every year I fail :-) I...
  10. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    That's some leap west from the nearest known sites!
  11. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    Having ricked my back (lying down to snap insects!) and been away I've lagged behind this year but now mobile again I did manage to add Common Darter (2 tenerals and an ovipositing pair) on a survey on Saturday and then yesterday, 26.06.23, Small Red-eyed Damselfly at the boating lake on...
  12. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    I'm not in the 2 main facebook groups so I've only got iRecord and iNaturalist to look at. The iNaturalist ones (which all have photos) aren't Small Red-eyed and the five sightings in iRecord all come through from Birdtrack (and so don't have photos!) and perhaps only the one from North Somerset...
  13. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    Global warming at work!
  14. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    Good early date for the Small Red-eyed (y)
  15. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    Possibly Hairy Dragonflies - size often misjudged by even experienced dragonfly observers.
  16. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    A photo on Going Birding Hampshire - Common Darters have emerged https://birdnews.s3.amazonaws.com/hants/20236101916282800.jpg
  17. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    Southern Damselfly beside the river Test at Skidmore Bridge (SU3517, Hants) on 05.06.23.
  18. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    all Common Blue Damselflies. 1st 4 female, last 2 male.
  19. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    Managed to see a female Broad-bodied Chaser and three Beautiful Demoiselles today (05.05.23) at Testwood Lakes (Hants)
  20. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    From iRecord 01.05 Downy Emerald in South Wiltshire 01.05 Broad-bodied Chaser in Cornwall
  21. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    Had my first Azure Damselfly yesterday (28.04) in Nursling Old Gravel Pit (Hants)
  22. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    25.04 Broad-bodied Chaser in South Wales
  23. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    I've probably missed a few but I think these are the first dates - some posted here and others found in iRecord / Birdguides / Facebook. 27.03 Large Red Damselfly - Cornwall 09.04 Vagrant Emperor - North Somerset 15.04 Variable Damselfly - North Somerset 16.04 Banded Demoiselle - London...
  24. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    Everyone struggles with tenerals! As good as books like Dijkstra are there is only so much space for drawings and there is a lot of variability in mature adults let alone the immature ones as they change each day. Anyway, an excellent early record. Paul
  25. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    I had a look in Observado (as that's where I put all my records from outside the UK ) and the insect in the image you posted here (but a better camera image) has been assessed as 'plausible' (which equates to what I said -but less wordy!) Variable Bluet - Coenagrion pulchellum The other photo...
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