Farnboro John
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Crikey! So is this likely a vagrant or is there a colony waiting to be discovered in Hedge End?
John
John
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UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022 (2 Viewers)
- Thread starter Swindon Addick
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pdwinter
Paul Winter
Terry visits every day so we should soon find out if there are more.
Details from iRecord
SU489133
"On last year's Reedmace in the southeastern corner of Wildern Moor"
Larry Sweetland
Formerly 'Larry Wheatland'
I wonder if any larophiles hearing about this are finding the concept of a second winter damselfy confusing 🤔
Bismarck Honeyeater
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Anyone know if this was twitched, successfully or not?
pdwinter
Paul Winter
I didn't try (because I didn't need it for my year list
) but I know Terry has been out there today and hasn't added it to iRecord. An easy insect to overlook in the field if it doesn't move.
pdwinter
Paul Winter
Common Club-tail Gomphus vulgatissimus in Worcestershire 06.05.22
irecord.org.uk
Record of Gomphus vulgatissimus
Fieldfare600
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Good evening. Just seen that there wasn't an update on the Common Winter Damselfly. Two of us spent over five hours on site yesterday, mid-morning to mid-afternoon, with a further five, including Terry, attending on-and-off during this time, so probably a cumulative total of c.20 hours put in on site. No sightings at all with Azure and Large Red Damselfly and Broad-bodied Chaser all that was located, in total perhaps no more than ten individuals. Terry will be visiting on a daily basis and John, also local to the site, will be visiting during the coming week. So, we can but hope ...
Farnboro John
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Not the first clubtail of the year, but I think the first photo of one on Twitter. Oxfordshire, 10th of May.
alan_rymer
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Farnboro John
Well-known member
A pox on people whose first thought on finding a well-known species in a new location is that it ought to be collected.
John
Timbirder3
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earthdragon64
Lurker
Saw my first Large Red Damselflies of the year today, just south of Aviemore.
I saw my first Emperor of the year at Ravensroost yesterday. It was patrolling the meadow pond, so presumably a few days old already. Looking at iRecord, the first record of one was in Surrey on the 12th.
I had a part of the afternoon free today so dropped in to Goring. No sign of any adult clubtails, but I found 6 exuviae along the usual bit of concrete river bank so it looks like this morning was good. Pleased to see the site seemingly back to decent numbers after a few rather sparse years. Six is my personal best for the site.
Also a very fresh banded demoiselle, a couple of adult red-eyed and a couple of mayflies.
Southern Damsel has been on the wing for over a week, but any excuse for some photos, IMHO.
I assume this is pretty recent - Norfolk Hawker in urban Peterborough. The finders say they're going to put it on iRecord which will provide an exact date.
White-legged damsel in Worcestershire on the 13th,.
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