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    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2025

    Indeed - the UK 2025 maps from iRecord for Hairy and Large Red attached. I haven't been to the New Forest yet this year - increasingly difficult to park anywhere near good dragonfly sites!
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    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2025

    Southern Damselfly were seen in the New Forest yesterday (01.05.25) which is quite an early date for the species in the forest. I surveyed some ditches near the River Test and didn't find any but did see my first Hairy Dragonfly, Azure Damselfly and Banded Demoiselle - the latter are not usually...
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    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2025

    Common Club-tail from Cheshire on 27.04.25 Record of Gomphus vulgatissimus - also from Goring railway bridge on 29th.
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    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2025

    I haven't seen any new for year species reported today but I did manage to see my first dragonfly (rather than damselfly) - a female Broad-bodied Chaser at Southampton Sports Centre. Yesterday I added Beautiful Demoiselle and Blue-tailed Damselfly at Testwood Lakes (also Hampshire).
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    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2025

    Downy Emerald from Rye Harbour on 24.04.25 Record of Downy Emerald (Cordulia aenea)
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    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2025

    iRecord has an imageless Azure Damselfly in SW Yorkshire on 23.04.25 plus two records with images from elsewhere on 24.04. Must be the time and weather to start looking at a few waterbodies!
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    Darker mantled large gull Hampshire, late March 2025

    Thanks Alexander - nice pics. I'm afraid my eyes don't seem to pick up the blueish hue in YLG !
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    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2025

    Beautiful Demoiselle in Devon on 22.04.25 Record of Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo)
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    Darker mantled large gull Hampshire, late March 2025

    I received these images from a friend wondering if they are of a Yellow-legged Gull. My thoughts were that, despite the bird in the image being overexposed (blown highlights), it is more likely to be a Lesser Black-backed Gull - at the paler end of L.g.graellsii - although I think the pattern...
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    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2025

    Red-eyed Damselfly from Middlesex on 21.04.25 Record of Red-eyed Damselfly (Erythromma najas) I saw two maiden flights of Large Red Damselfly yesterday to belatedly kick off my UK season!
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    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2025

    White-faced Darter from Denbighshire on 20.04.25 Record of White-faced Darter (Leucorrhinia dubia)
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    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2025

    Scarce Chaser in Bedfordshire on 9th April Scarce Chaser (Libellula fulva)
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    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2025

    Variable Damselfly in Somerset on 16th April Record of Coenagrion pulchellum
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    RSPB Hide Clamp

    On my copy the locking dial locks both panning and tilting - perhaps your panning loosened after a while.
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    RSPB Hide Clamp

    Thanks for the reply and the offer to test dunder but I'm afraid I was rather impetuous and ordered the RSPB Hide Clamp before there were any replies. It came this morning and I tried it out with my Kowa 883 and it worked very well although I found it better to have the handle pointing away...
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