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Recent content by Larry Sweetland

  1. Larry Sweetland

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2024

    I can beat the date for White-legged Damselfly. I had my first in Bristol on 07.05. 24
  2. Larry Sweetland

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2024

    Is anyone able to confirm or otherwise my suspicions that these are female Scarce Blue-tailed Damselflies?
  3. Larry Sweetland

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2024

    You'll need wellies. Walk around the edges of the seasonal pool and check especially where the grass is emerging from the water. There are plenty of Common Blue-tails and other damsels there too, but not so many as to swamp you. I returned a bit later and found a male again fairly easily, and...
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    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2024

    https://maps.app.goo.gl/96dtZr1LL4xa3TLGA
  5. Larry Sweetland

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2024

    I'm at the spot now and I've just found 2 males, so fairly confident they'd be findable if the weather's ok. I work on Thursdays unfortunately, though I could do thurs lunch time 1 til 2 or poss a bit earlier if that's any help. I'll put a pin in a map anyway when I get home.
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    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2024

    It's easy to access and a pretty small area, but I only found one individual today (though it was windy). If the other site you were thinking of is near Frampton Cotterell, then I believe they are in better numbers there, though I've not been there to look. If you want to try the Stoke Park...
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    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2024

    Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly found at a Bristol site (Stoke Park) today for 2nd consecutive year. First found here about 4 years ago.
  8. Larry Sweetland

    The Ladybird thread

    It's taken me until now to get 2-spot for the year, with these two in the garden. That's 25 species for the year now (23 on patch). They used to be one of the commonest species when I was a kid.
  9. Larry Sweetland

    First Butterflies 2024

    My first Purple Hairstreak of the year was an unexpected find while looking for ladybirds 😊
  10. Larry Sweetland

    The Ladybird thread

    Surprised to find a 2nd Red-rumped Scymnus today, and this time I managed a clearer pic (while in the field, and more by luck than judgement). It was a few hundred metres from the other one, in drier short-cropped mossy habitat at the edge of a housing estate on the other side of the M32 😊.
  11. Larry Sweetland

    The Ladybird thread

    Not sure how many are recorded, but there are approximately 49 species known to be established in the wild (I think!). This excludes one that's not been recorded for many years and includes a recent split that has an unclear distribution. Rarities occur too, eg there was a Pink Ladybird earlier...
  12. Larry Sweetland

    The Ladybird thread

    Took me a while to see the red markings in this pic. Pine Ladybird presumably?
  13. Larry Sweetland

    hello, birders, I took a bird with some strange features. A hybrid of Motacilla alba with Motacilla cinerea or a strange Motacilla cinerea only?

    Nothing further to add except what a smart looking bird!
  14. Larry Sweetland

    The Ladybird thread

    My first lifer of the year! This Red-rumped Scymnus was found on patch in Bristol, taking the patch list to 31 and my life list to 40 😊. Great day out with the sweep net, with 16 species of ladybird found on patch between 9am and 1pm. Other notables included 8 Spotted Marsh Ladybirds, a Water...
  15. Larry Sweetland

    The Ladybird thread

    Good numbers of 2-spots. They're really scarce around me in Bristol. I've still not seen a 2-spot this year (and I've had 19 species on my local patch this year so far)
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