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  1. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    A few from Abbotswood (nr Romsey, Hants) on 15.07.22. Tatty male Emperor, male Broad-bodied Chaser, male Ruddy Darter, immature Small Red Damselfly (not sure on the sex), male Emerald Damselfly. It's the sort of site that would be good for Migrant Spreadwing (Lestes barbarus) shold they ever...
  2. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    A few from the New Forest on 14th July. Male and female Southern Damselfly, male Golden-ringed Dragonfly and mating Small Red Damselflies
  3. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    There are a lot of current pics of Lesser Emperor from Tice's Meadow - must be a short drive for you John.
  4. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    Good record. I usually find a 'new' site each year locally - but after one or 2 years they disappear - but as I'm a stone's throw from the New Forest it's not unexpected. Yours must be a long way from the nearest known breeding population.
  5. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    Managed to catch up with Four-spotted Chaser (!) and Common and Ruddy Darters for the year list yesterday (01.07.22) at Emer Bog (Hants)
  6. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    When I started dragonflying I had to travel to the Hampshire Avon but Scarce Chaser is now a misnomer in the Lower Test Valley - this one on territory at Nutsey (fishing) Lake (Testwood). Yet to see a Four-spotted Chaser this year :)
  7. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    I had hoped to see some Small Red Damselflies in the New Forest today but 100% cloud and a fairly brisk wind meant I failed. New for the year for me were a White-legged Damselflies and Keeled Skimmers in Dames Slough Inclosure.
  8. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    Scarce Emerald Damselfly at Little Belhus CP in Essex yesterday https://warehouse1.indicia.org.uk/upload/o_1g51bqi08t301jpk1m8l14q21m65b.jpg
  9. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    Three male Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfies of varying maturation at a balancing pond of a posh housing estate NE of Romsey (Hants) on 01.06.2022. Saves me diesel money on a trip to the New Forest.
  10. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    At last today (29.05) I saw an Emperor Dragonfly, at Testwood Lakes (Hants), with three emerging and a female turning up to oviposit. There was also a female Hairy Dragonfly laying eggs. I see there has been a Red-veined Darter in Cornwall - Windmill Farm again.
  11. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    Southern Damselfly is on the Red Lists (European 'conservation concern'; GB 'Endangered') and has a very restricted distribution as it's very fussy about its habitat requirements, but two of its strongholds are the New Forest and the Itchen Valley with the Test Valley also having colonies. As I...
  12. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    Pleased to see a teneral Golden-ringed female in Hants today along with Southern Damselflies.
  13. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    Saw my first Black-tailed Skimmer (immature male) of the year in Nursling Substation (Hants) yesterday (19.05.22). There have been a lot of immature Scarce Chasers recently, presumably emerging on the River Test and its tributaries and popping over to feed up and mature before going back to breed.
  14. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly, 10.05.22, Berkshire
  15. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    Southern Damselfly in the New Forest on 05.05.22 Norfolk Hawker in Norfolk on 08.05.22
  16. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    Common Club-tail Gomphus vulgatissimus in Worcestershire 06.05.22 https://irecord.org.uk/record-details?occurrence_id=25253120
  17. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    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.
  18. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    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"
  19. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    How about this
  20. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    As far as I can tell (and I don't look at the 2 largest UK facebook groups) the following 15 species are flying as of 3rd May Beautiful Demoiselle Banded Demoiselle Large Red Damselfly Common Blue Damselfly Variable Damselfly Azure Damselfly Red-eyed Damselfly Blue-tailed Damselfly Hairy...
  21. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    Black-tailed Skimmer in Dorset on 26th April!
  22. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    Scarce Chaser at Lower Test Marshes (Hants) 03.05.22
  23. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    18th April in Surrey in 2021. I've never managed to see them before 25th.
  24. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    In iRecord records (with photos) of Common Blue Damselfly Middlesex 20.04.22 Beautiful Demoiselle Berkshire/Devon 20.04.22
  25. pdwinter

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    In iRecord there are pics of a Four-spotted Chaser in Somerset on 12th April. (I just spent 10 days in southern Spain and saw 5 individuals, 2 of which went past so fast I could only guess at an ID, 2 were Large Red Damselflies and the other a Winter Damselfly.)
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