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Recent content by Swindon Addick

  1. Swindon Addick

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2024

    There's been a lot of chatter on the BDS social media channels about Rannoch Moor and lots of conservation work going on there for Azure Hawker. I've not been there and don't know the actual sites but there haven't been any reports of drought issues there that I've heard.
  2. Swindon Addick

    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Bluethroat this morning. Specifically the one that got confused about where it should migrate to and has spent the early summer of each of the last few years at Slimbridge wondering why no female ever turns up in the excellent bit of habitat it's claimed as its territory.
  3. Swindon Addick

    Dragonfly or damselfly?

    Beautiful Demoiselle (male). They're the size of a dragonfly but are actually damselflies. https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/species/beautiful-demoiselle/
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    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    Just over 2 months in and we're not far off a third of the world's total species. I find myself wondering how long it took the Opus editors to get to having photos of a third of the world's species via the means of asking nicely rather than making a game of it.
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    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2024

    Lots about yesterday early evening. Azure, Blue-tailed and Red-eyed damsels among the Common Blues at Oxford motorway services, then Otmoor had vast numbers of Azure, a decent number of Hairy Dragonfly and an immature Broad-bodied Chaser. Also got a brief view of something darter sized that...
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    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2024

    My first evidence of breeding of the year, at Ravensroost yesterday.
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    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2024

    A couple of freshly-emerged Four-spotted Chasers at Ravensroost yesterday morning. Several pairs of Large Red mating and a few male Common Blue patrolling the edges of the pond without success. Dozens of emerging damsels, most of the ones I got a decent look at were Common Blue but at least one...
  8. Swindon Addick

    Dragonfly ID Cambridgeshire

    With a freshly-emerged individual, the trick is to ignore the colours and focus on the shape of the markings. In this case, imagine the brown splodges as being blue and you've got a male Hairy.
  9. Swindon Addick

    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    You know you've been a Birdforum member too long when someone mentions a woodpecker with a bill of a distinctive colour and you first reaction is to run away screaming.
  10. Swindon Addick

    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    Given that plant taxonomy gave us Sorbus admonitor, whose official common name is No Parking Whitebeam, a certain degree of reluctance to use English names is understandable.
  11. Swindon Addick

    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    9665 was a duplicate of 9618, so with the spreadsheet now back up to date we are on 9693 and the next one should be 9694. The birds played in the last week or so have been renumbered on the spreadsheet: 9665 Solomons Rufous Fantail 9666 Bernier's Vanga 9667 Chestnut-eared...
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    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    Next bird after Green-backed Tit should be 2033, unless the numbering's gone horribly wrong.
  13. Swindon Addick

    Name a Bird You've Photographed

    2027 Willow Tit - Pennington Flash, UK
  14. Swindon Addick

    Name a Bird You've Seen 2

    That was played by Markus as number 9652, under the alternative name Sao Tome ibis.
  15. Swindon Addick

    Taxonomy in-flux updates

    In your blog these two bits of text are links to the PDFs; the links haven't copied into the text as reproduced here.
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