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Southern Migrant Hawker (1 Viewer)
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pdwinter
Paul Winter
Well a modern browser (not this carp I've got at work) reveals the finder's name when you hover (your mouse) over the initials on the BDS page. You could try contacting him.
HTH
pdwinter
Paul Winter
Neither have I but there are plenty of people who do! It's at this point I usually launch into a diatribe against twitchers but I must be mellowing in my late middle age.
Must be old before my late youth (I can't call 33 early middle age yet)! I have done the twitching thing with birds but got more interested in finding my own stuff. For some reason I have never had the urge to twitch an insect even though I'd like to see some of these things. I've always assumed that I will find my own somewhere - the dream keeps me going!
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prhodes
Well-known member
Twitch an insect. Who in there right mind would do such a thing?
Anyone know where the best place to park? Likely to be a challange so near to Leigh on Sea and Southend. Seems like a long walk from the country park car park?
Seems quite a spectacular species. Suspect there will be fair crowd there tomorrow.
Anyone know where the best place to park? Likely to be a challange so near to Leigh on Sea and Southend. Seems like a long walk from the country park car park?
Seems quite a spectacular species. Suspect there will be fair crowd there tomorrow.
RoyW
Well-known member
Taking these two questions together, kind of suggests that you may not be 'in your right mind'!
If you park near Benfleet Station (there is a pay and display car park), you can enter the country park through the gate at the junction of Station Road, School Lane and St Mary's Road and and follow the path as directed above. You will probably see several mixta Migrant Hawkers, and perhaps a Southern Migrant or two on the way.
We saw several mature males + at least one immature male and a female.
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jalethbridge
I like sea-watching
pdwinter
Paul Winter
lewis20126
Well-known member
Still 2+ males around today up to 2pm when I left; also 2-3 Anax imperator over the main pond and Aeshna mixta regularly up the track up the slope. Fabulous find and apparently also in Kent today! The great Odonata colonisation continues - what next??
cheers, alan
cheers, alan
RoyW
Well-known member
Southern Migrant Hawkers: A bit like buses really, as soon as you've seen one more follow.
Visited Cliffe with DB and JL, and after seeing a female Southern Emerald Damselfly, a tandem pair of Southern Migrant Hawkers turned up and cruised up and down the ditch (chased by the Kent dragonfly recorders).
Tomorrow I'll try for one in Hertfordshire!
Visited Cliffe with DB and JL, and after seeing a female Southern Emerald Damselfly, a tandem pair of Southern Migrant Hawkers turned up and cruised up and down the ditch (chased by the Kent dragonfly recorders).
Tomorrow I'll try for one in Hertfordshire!
dbradnum
Well-known member
Very interesting! Hopefully they'll hang around for you. I would've settled for Lesser Emperor today, still not seen one in the UK.
So, for the second time this weekend, I've updated my blog with photos of Southern Migrant Hawker. Yesterday was perhaps somewhat predictable, given the news from Hadleigh on Thursday... but today was just amazing luck, to be stood about ten yards away from someone finding two more!
