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Latest Leics & Rutland Dragonfly SightingsSunday, August 27, 2006Priory water 25-27/08/06     Species recorded on the reserve over the last 3 days are as follows; Migrant Hawker Southern Hawker Brown Hawker Common Darter Ruddy Darter Black-Tailed Skimmer Common Blue Damselfly Blue-Tailed Damselfly White-Legged Damselfly Red-Eyed Damselfly Small-Red-Eyed Damselfly Thursday, August 24, 2006New Cambs Dragonfly Blog!
I had an email from Max Catterwell, praising the LRDG website and wishing there was something like it in Cambridgeshire. I was in one of my funny moods - you know the ones - so I said to Max, well, go and create a blog, it's easy enough.
And he did! It's brand new so there's nothing on it yet, but LRDG bloggers can help! The blog is at http://camdrags.blogspot.com/. Take a look, and if you're going to Cambs, ask Max for an invite and post your news.... Good luck Max! Tuesday, August 22, 2006Priory Water 22/08/06
Species recorded on the reserve today.
Migrant Hawker Southern Hawker Brown Hawker Common Darter Ruddy Darter Common Blue Damselfly Blue-Tailed Damselfly Red-Eyed Damselfly Small Red-Eyed Damselfly Small Red-eyed Damselflies now in Nottinghamshire
Grantham Canal, Wild's Bridge to Devil's Elbow (SK675321 to SK669317)
12 male Small Red-eyed Damselflies and 2 females were seen at this location on Tuesday, 22 August, 2006. There was no sign of mating activity but the males were attacked by male Common Blue Damselflies. Saturday, August 19, 2006Grantham Canal, Saturday, August 19, 2006
Plungar Bridge to Bridge 47A (SK767343 to SK763337)
3 Migrant Hawker males 2 Southern Hawker males 3 Brown Hawkers Many Common Darters, both males and females Many Ruddy Darters, both males and females 1 Blue-tailed Damselfly female infuscans-obsoleta form ovipositing Small number of Common Blue Damselflies including 1 pair "in cop" Wednesday, August 09, 2006National News
From the BDS website:
Small Red-eyed Damselfly: The first county records for Lincs, Wilts, & Glos in the past month, plus new sites in Cambs. Red-veined Darter: Notable influx this season, inc. 4 at a private site in N Cambs. Lesser Emperor: Again, yet more records, inc. 1 at the same private site in N Cambs. Yellow-winged Darter: A series of records from Lancs presumably relating to local breeding from previous years. Also, records from Norfolk. Southern Migrant Hawker, aka Mediterranean Hawker: Second UK record, and the first for over 50 years, in W Sussex on July 13th. (Photo on BDS website). Interesting to note that there have been numerous records of this species from the near continent this season... Priory Water 05/08/06
Another survey of the Small Red-Eyed Damselfly population on the reserve produced quite a surprise in terms of numbers present, 180+ males, 70 females, 63 coupled pairs most of which were ovipositing. These numbers may indicate that they are still on the move within the county and more insects are still arriving!
Other species recorded were; Brown Hawker - 250+ Southern Hawker - 3 Migrant Hawker - 2 Common Darter - 150+ Ruddy Darter - 100+ Emperor - 7 Black-Tailed Skimmer - 50+ Four-Spotted Chaser - 5 Common Blue Damselfly Blue-Tailed Damselfly White-Legged Damselfly Red-Eyed Damselfly Emerald Damselfly Banded Demoiselle Monday, August 07, 2006ALL READERS - PLEASE NOTE...
If you are having trouble viewing the site (looks odd, images and pop-up images missing), you may have to change your bookmarks.
This is because we have finally come to a resting place as far as the domain name is concerned, so please change your bookmarks to: http://www.lrdg.org.uk/ for the home page http://www.lrdg.org.uk/latest-dragonfly-sightings.php for the Latest Sightings page/blog Etc. The news page/blog is also more functional now - the individual post pages (none before this post, but this one and from now on) and archive pages should now appear as the other pages on the site do, and be fully functional. Sunday, August 06, 2006Fosse Meadows, August 6th 2006
Emerald Damselfly 10+ around the small pool in East Meadow
Also present: Emperor Brown Hawker Four-spotted Chaser Ruddy Darter Common Darter Banded Demoiselle Common Blue Damselfly Blue-tailed Damselfly Adey Baker, Carl Baggott Friday, August 04, 2006Lakeside Court, Thurnby SK 645038
I visited today and thought I would post the correct address for anyone visiting. A very easy site to watch this one.
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