Showing posts with label Dragonfly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dragonfly. Show all posts
Sunday, 12 June 2011

Small Red Damselfly and Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly in North Wales

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June 11, 2011: North Wales is home to several species of damselfly which are of restricted or otherwise southern distribution in Britain. Si...
Monday, 16 May 2011

DRAGONFLY: Banded Demoiselles have emerged at Brockholes Wetlands

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May 11, 2011: Banded Demoiselles (Calopteryx splendens) are now flying here. Several males showing their beautiful metallic-blue colouring w...
Saturday, 25 September 2010

DRAGONFLY: Brown Hawker and Migrant Hawker at Mere Sands, Lancashire

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September 16, 2010: On a cool blustery early autumn day with little sun, it was rather rather surprising to see Brown and Migrant Hawkers fl...
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Friday, 10 September 2010

DRAGONFLY: Southern Hawkers (Aeshna cyanea) near Silverdale, Lancashire

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September 9, 2010: A small sheltered pool near Silverdale has several species of dragonfly including Common Darter, Black Darter and the rat...
Saturday, 4 September 2010

DRAGONFLY: Southern Hawkers and Common Hawkers near Burnley, Lancashire

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September 2/3, 2010: A small isolated wooded pool close to the Pennine moorland had at least three species of Hawker flying today. The condi...
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010

DRAGONFLY: Ruddy Darters and Common Darters in Lancashire

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August 19, 2010: In this area of north-west England the Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum) is quite frequent, especially in the lowland ar...
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010

DRAGONFLY: Lancashire and south Cumbria dragonflies during a brief improvement in the weather

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August 15/16, 2010: Recently in north-west England, the weather has been very poor and there's been an apparent absence of dragonflies. ...
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Tuesday, 3 August 2010

DRAGONFLY: Black Darters and Emerald Damselflies at Foulshaw Moss, Cumbria

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August 2, 2010: Today, in one of the few local sunny spells for quite a long while, Black Darters and Emerald Damselflies were flying in goo...
Saturday, 24 July 2010

DRAGONFLY: Emperor at Foulshaw Moss, Cumbria

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July 23, 2010: In intermittent late afternoon sunshine at the small pool at Foulshaw, a male Emperor (Anax imperator) restlessly quartered t...