A blog for sightings of Dragonflies and Damselflies in Oxfordshire. To submit records and photos for posting, just email stephen_burchemail at yahoo.co.uk. Photos with resolutions up to 1280 pixels may be provided. These will be displayed at a resolution of 640 pixels horizontally but viewers can then click to see them at full resolution
2 Common Clubtail (per Geoff Wyatt)
Good emergence of common damselflies:
2 Red-eyed Damselfly
Blue-tailed Damselfly (teneral, below)
Azure Damselfly
Several Common Blue Damselfly (adult male and imm fem, below)
Large Red Damselfly (per Geoff Wyatt)
Numerous Banded Demoiselle
Cholsey Marsh:
1 Clubtail. SU602856
Goring Railway Bridge
5 Clubtails! SU604796
Chris Lamsdell per iRecord
Goring Railway Bridge:
10+ Clubtails!! SU604795
Max Thompson per iRecord
1-2 Azure Damselflies on both dates
Nicola Devine
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| Azure Damselfly (c) Nicola Devine |
Two Club-tail exuviae at Radley boat club this morning. SU5385998909
Jeremy Biggs
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| Clubtail exuvia (c) Jeremy Biggs |
Crowmarsh Gifford (on an ornamental pond): 1 Large Red Damselfly & 7 Azure Damselflies
R Thames at Shillingford: 1 Azure Damselfly & 9 Banded Demoiselles
John Bloomfield
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| Azure Damselfly (c) John Bloomfield |
Records added to iRecord
Banded Demoiselle 14 (9m, 5f)
Common Clubtail 2 - they had emerged in a small reed bed just north of the railway bridge.
No sign of any damselflies or any other dragonflies.
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| Common Clubtail © David Hastings |
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| Common Clubtail © David Hastings |
10+ Blue-tailed Damsels
5+ Azure Damsels
1 Common Blue Damsels
But no sign of any dragonflies...
Stephen Burch
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| Blue-tailed Damselfly (c) Stephen Burch |
1f Common Blue Damselfly.
My first Odonata of the season!
Stephen Burch
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| Common Blue Damselfly (c) Stephen Burch |
14 Banded Demoiselle
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| Banded Demoiselle (male) |
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| Banded Demoiselle (female) |
SU 594987
3 Banded Demoiselles
1 Common Clubtail (per Alan Dawson)
Common Blue Damselfly (per Alan Dawson)
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| Banded Demoiselle © David Hastings |
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| Broad-bodied Chaser larva |
1 [Common] Clubtail
SU67017562 - on N bank of river, so in Oxon.
Catherine Sullivan per iRecord
Azure Damselfly - several, especially along path between screens.
Hairy Dragonfly - probable Bridleway 13 May
Jessica Turner
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| Azure Damselfly (c) Jessica Turner |
4 Red-eyed Damselfly
3 Blue-tailed Damselfly
Brian Walker
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| Red-eyed Damselfly (c) Brian Walker |
1 Broad-bodied Chaser - emerging
Sally Taylor
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| Broad-bodied Chaser (c) Sally Taylor |
1 Large Red Damselfly - emergent
1 Nymph sp.
per Sally Taylor
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| Large Red Damselfly (c) Sally Taylor |
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| Dragonfly nymph sp. (c) Sally Taylor Any ID suggestions anyone? |
50+ Banded Demoiselle
2 Beautiful Demoiselle
Jeremy Dexter
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| Beautiful Demoiselle (c) Jeremy Dexter |
Banded Demoiselle 6 - all female
Large Red Damselfly 1 - Male
Hairy Dragonfly 1
I finally found my first odonate of the year today - a teneral male Large Red Damselfly at Dry Sandford Pit.
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| Large Red Damselfly © David Hastings |
