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Latest Leics & Rutland Dragonfly SightingsSaturday, May 26, 2007Priory Water 26th May 2007  Another new species for the reserves year list was found this morning in the form of 4 teneral Black-Tailed Skimmers. Also recorded were; Four-Spotted Chaser Red-Eyed Damselfly White-Legged Damselfly Variable Damselfly Azure Damselfly Common Blue Damselfly Blue-Tailed Damselfly Large Red Damselfly Ashby Canal May 26th 2007
Adjacent to Ambion Wood
6 Red-eyed Damselflies Also present several Blue-tailed Damselflies but only 1 Azure Damselfly Adey Baker, Carl Baggott Friday, May 25, 2007Grantham Canal 24th May 2007
From Keith Bindley and Sheela Spinks:
Barkestone to Redmile 4 male Hairy Dragonflies, 4 Four-spotted Chasers, 2 Azure Damselflies, 3 Blue-tailed Damselflies, 100+ Variable Damselflies Barkestone to Plungar 1 male Hairy Dragonfly, 3 large Red Damselflies, 20+ Variable Damselflies Wednesday, May 23, 2007More on Dragonfly Recording
My thanks to Helen Ikin who has summarised the recording effort required perfectly:
Leicestershire 10km squares Recording priorities "Need" indicates no records since 1989 SK21 There are only 4 species listed for this square so any records would be a bonus. SK30 17 species Need Emerald Damselfly, Broad-bodied Chaser, Four-spotted Chaser, Common Darter, Ruddy Darter SK32 Just a small area is in the county (includes Calke Park) only 9 species. Need Large Red Damselfly. Could add several. SK40 18 species All except Common Hawker and Black Darter recorded since 2000 SK41 21 species White-legged Damselfly not recorded since 1985 SK42 16 species Could add White-legged Damselfly and Hairy Dragonfly SK43 14 species Need Southern Hawker and Migrant Hawker, Large Red Damselfly, White-legged Damselfly SK50 18 species Need Emerald Damselfly SK51 21 species Beautiful Demoiselle and Common Hawker?? SK52 14 species Need Broad-bodied Chaser. Could add Large Red Damselfly, Emerald Damselfly, White-legged Damselfly SK60 17 species Well recorded. Could add Emerald Damselfly and Hairy Dragonfly?? SK61 17 species Well recorded, could add Emerald Damselfly and Hairy Dragonfly?? SK62 13 species but not recently Need all records. SK70 16 species Need Four-spotted Chaser, Emperor, Black-tailed Skimmer, could add Emerald Damselfly SK71 20 species Well recorded SK72 18 species Well recorded SK73 18 species Well recorded SK80 20 species Well recorded SK81 18 species Need Ruddy Darter, could add Hairy Dragonfly. SK82 11 species Need Large Red Damselfly, Azure Damselfly, Brown Hawker, Southern Hawker, Broad-bodied Chaser, Black-tailed Skimmer. Could add Emerald Damselfly, Ruddy Darter, Emperor, White-legged Damselfly, Hairy Dragonfly, Four-spotted Chaser SK83 15 species Need Emerald Damselfly, Southern Hawker. Could add Large Red Damselfly, Broad-bodied Chaser, White-legged Damselfly SK90 18 species Well recorded but need Ruddy Darter SK91 13 species Need Blue-tailed Damselfly, Emerald Damselfly SP39 14 species Need Emerald Damselfly, Large Red Damselfly, Migrant Hawker, Broad-bodied Chaser, Four-spotted Chaser. Could add Black-tailed Skimmer, Ruddy Darter, Hairy Dragonfly, Emperor SP48 Only Blue-tailed Damselfly recorded here - in 1987!! SP49 18 species Need White-legged Damselfly, could add Hairy Dragonfly. SP57 8 species Could add Emerald Damselfly, Azure Damselfly, Southern Hawker, Emperor, Emerald Damselfly, Common Darter etc. SP58 16 species Need Emerald Damselfly, Large Red Damselfly, Azure Damselfly, Southern Hawker, Broad-bodied Chaser, Could add Black-tailed Skimmer, Hairy Dragonfly SP59 18 species Need Black-tailed Skimmer SP68 16 species Well recorded but could add Hairy Dragonfly, Emerald Damselfly, SP69 19 species Need Hairy Dragonfly, Four-spotted Chaser and Ruddy Darter SP78 17 species Need Migrant Hawker, Emperor, Ruddy Darter, Common Darter SP79 15 species Need Large Red Damselfly, Common Blue Damselfly, Emperor, Broad-bodied Chaser, Four-spotted Chaser, Common Darter. Could add Emerald Damselfly, Ruddy Darter, Hairy Dragonfly SP89 17 species Need Emerald Damselfly, Black-tailed Skimmer. Could add Emerald Damselfly SP99 4 species Need all records TF00 11 species Need Emerald Damselfly, three Hawkers, both Darters TF01 9 species but not recently Need all records Watermead CP Birstall
1 female Banded Demoiselle in dull conditions this evening
Grantham Canal, 23 May 2007Towpath alongside Muston Meadows NNR
100+ Red-eyed Damselflies including adults in tandem and in cop, immatures and tenerals. Small number of Variable Damselflies 2 Large Red Damselflies Photos show immature male Red-eyed Damselfly enjoying his lunch and immature female Red-eyed Damselfly taking up heat from the canalside fence.   Tuesday, May 22, 2007The Dragonfly Recording Network needs your help! Below is a list of species for each 10-km square, produced using records held within the Dragonfly Recording Network's national database, on 8th May 2007. This list gives a summary of records present for each 10-km square, indicating those that should be targeted for an up-dated national atlas. Species highlighted in bold have been recorded since 2000, whereas species not highlighted represent records in the DRN database only present prior to 2000. The species can be viewed in both scientific and common names (in the Word file supplied to me - if you would like a copy please click here). To switch between the two click the button at the top of the page. In order for this to work, macros must be allowed in this document. If not then go to "Tools - Macros - Security" selecting "medium level". Then close and reopen this document, clicking enable macros. If this does not work then check the button is not in design view, shown by the appearance of white circles around the button on clicking it. If it is then go to "View-Toolbars - Control Toolbox" - and click on "Protractor, Ruler and Pencil" icon (Exit Design Mode). Can you help by recording those species not highlighted or add species to 10-km squares near you? Please record your sightings, at least at a 6 figure grid reference, and send these records to your local dragonfly recorder (contact details available from the Recording Page of the British Dragonfly Society's website (http://www.dragonflysoc.org.uk/)). We would also be grateful for any records, even if the species have been highlighted as recorded since 2000. To find a 10-km square on the map go to the National Biodiversity Network's (NBN) Gateway (http://www.searchnbn.net/) where you can find the square using the map under Geosearching. If you can not find your relevant information or have further questions then please contact Graham French, "Dragonflies in Focus" Officer at 01743 282019 or graham.french@naturalengland.org.uk. Hall Farm/River Eye, 20th May 2007From Julia Hawley: About 20 Banded Demoiselles on River Eye near to Swingbridge, part of Hall Farm, Brentingby, near Melton Mowbray. This private site open to groups of 6+ by appointment Hall Farm, Brentingby, Melton Mowbray Leicestershire LE14 4RX Priory Water 22nd May 2007
Also present: Sunday, May 20, 2007Priory Water 19th/20th May 2007
Other species recorded this weekend were:  
Grantham Canal, 20 May 2007 Barkestone le ValeIn addition to sightings reported by John Hague: 2 Hairy Dragonflies west of Weak Bridge 20+ pairs of Variable Damselflies ovipositing west of Weak Bridge behind the British Waterways dredger. 2 Large Red Damselflies  Photos of teneral Four-spotted Chaser reported by John, which appears to have damaged or deformed wings Grantham Canal 20/05/07
4+ Hairy Dragonfly (2 at SK781356, roughly 800m east of Jerico Bridge and at least 2 more, maybe 4 100m east of bridge)
4 Four-spotted Chaser inc 1 teneral at 4pm! Good numbers of Variable and Azure Damselfly (ovipositing noted by Variable at SK781356) Saturday, May 12, 2007Priory Water 12th May 2007 Not ideal weather for Odonata, but still plenty of insects around in the more sheltered areas of the reserve. Species seen today were; Four-Spotted Chaser - 15+ Variable Damselfly - 9 Large Red Damselfly - 100+ Red-Eyed Damselfly - 150+ Azure Damselfly - 150+ Blue-Tailed Damselfly - 60+ Banded Demoiselle - 8+
Wednesday, May 09, 2007Croft Pastures A single newley emerged Banded Demoiselle was next to its larval skin this morning at Croft Pastures. There was also several Large Red Damselflies at the site.More odonata photos at http://www.pbase.com/baggott/odonata Sunday, May 06, 2007Priory Water 5th/6th May 2007  There are now 6 species of Odonata on the wing at Priory Water, the latest addition being 4 Banded Demoiselles found on Sunday 6th by Tim Goodlife.Species now present are; Four-Spotted Chaser   Large Red DamselflyBlue-Tailed Damselfly Red-Eyed Damselfly Azure Damselfly Variable Damselfly Banded Demoiselle Thursday, May 03, 2007Thursday 3rd May 2007
Today at Priory Water 13 Four-spotted Chaser Dragonflies
 Also noted were Blue-tailed Damselfly Azure Damselfly Large Red Damselfly Variable Damselfly -735830.jpg) Red-eyed Damselfly Huncote Dragonfly Pond, 2nd May 2007 20 + Teneral Azure Damselflies in the vicinity of the pond late afternoon.
Grantham Canal, 3 May 2007
Barkestone le Vale
2 male Hairy Dragonflies and 1 possible female betwen Jericho Lane Bridge and "Weak Bridge". Small number of teneral Azure and Variable Damselflies Wednesday, May 02, 2007Priory Water 2nd May 2007
A walk round the reserve late this afternoon proved very productive, the highlight being the discovery of 5 Variable Damselflies, 2 mature males and most importantly 3 teneral males proving that this Damselfly is now an established breeding species on the reserve.
There is lots of Damselfly activity now with Red-Eyed Damselfly now begining to emerge in large numbers. No Dragonflies as yet, but it can only be a matter of days or even less until they begin to emerge. We now have 5 species of Damselfly on the wing on the reserve. Large Red Azure Blue-Tailed Red-Eyed Variable ArchivesJuly 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007
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