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Recent content by Adey Baker

  1. Adey Baker

    ID Required for Italian Dragonfly

    For the record, thanks to Google street view, this is the location, where the 'natural' stream becomes a 'channelled' culvert. Via Ponte Romano, Diano Marina.
  2. Adey Baker

    ID Required for Italian Dragonfly

    Many thanks. I will be really interested in any comments from them
  3. Adey Baker

    ID Required for Italian Dragonfly

    It would be fascinating if it was. I have the Dijkstra book but I didn't pack it with me - I just assumed I'd find what it was when I got back home, so was a bit confused when I couldn't find anything remotely resembling it in the book
  4. Adey Baker

    ID Required for Italian Dragonfly

    The long pterostigma certainly fits Keeled and I did wonder whether it might be one 'gone wrong' somewhere as nothing else was anywhere near to it in the fieldguide
  5. Adey Baker

    ID Required for Italian Dragonfly

    Just got back from trip to the Italian Riviera. This darter/skimmer-sized dragonfly was at Diano Marina in a more or less dried-up stream with only a few areas of standing water left where the stream bed was slightly deeper. Steep-sided, so I couldn't get any closer to it, the photos being...
  6. Adey Baker

    Bird Ringing at North Luffenham Airfield

    No, a different Tim. If you follow the link provided by Mono (sorry my link didn't copy correctly), you'll see his name on the first page of the report. Reading down further you can find his contact details. Good luck
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    Bird Ringing at North Luffenham Airfield

    Sorry about that. The last bit of the link didn't copy over for some reason! Since that report from 2018, Tim has recorded quite a few good birds at this site, and if access wasn't a problem, then county birders would have been 'all over it' years ago. In general, with private or limited...
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    Bird Ringing at North Luffenham Airfield

    Are all areas of the airfield open to the public? As I understand it, the bird-ringing is in an area where there won't be problems with model aircraft, horse riders, dog walkers etc. Have a read of this https://northluffenham.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/mod-north-luffenham-wildlife-report -...
  9. Adey Baker

    Bird Ringing at North Luffenham Airfield

    This is a very sensitive site for allowing people to enter. The ringer there has special permission and no other birders are allowed, not even the county bird recorder, etc., so you would have zero chance. The site has turned up quite a few local rare/scarce birds but there are many days when...
  10. Adey Baker

    Very rare animal spotted in my back garden! Any idea! 😉😉😉

    To be fair, he didn't crop out the 1800flowers.com from the top of the picture
  11. Adey Baker

    Very rare animal spotted in my back garden! Any idea! 😉😉😉

    Do a quick Google images search and you'll soon find where it came from
  12. Adey Baker

    Wood pigeons, large flock

    Some very big movements recorded yesterday. One site in Wiltshire reported over 66,000 and many other 5-figures around the country included 41,000 flying south at Portland Bill
  13. Adey Baker

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    Very pleased to find Willow Emeralds on one of my local patches at Burbage Common near Hinckley, Leics. The pools on the Common Extension have the necessary Willow trees overhanging them but the vegetation had become so overgrown that the water was hardly visible. The pools had a big clean-up in...
  14. Adey Baker

    Which Fritillary? Taken on Malvern Hills today. Though he’s rather tatty, I was wondering if he might be a high brown?

    Looks like a well-worn Silver-washed Fritillary.
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    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2023

    A White-legged Damselfly was quite a surprise first for my Hinckley, Leics., garden pond today. In the county as a whole, Hairy Dragonflies seem to be spreading more generally from a few traditional spots and Beautiful Demoiselles are also being reported from new locations. I've found them in...
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