Trap Grounds - 26 June

 1 Southern Hawker - recently emerged

Nicola Devine

Southern Hawker (c) Nicola Devine

Shillingford - 26th June

River Thames transect at Shillingford: Banded Demoiselle 20, White-legged Damselfly 39, Azure Damselfly 14, Common Blue Damselfly 3, Blue-tailed Damselfly 4, Red-eyed Damselfly 10, Common Darter 3, Ruddy Darter 1.

White-legged Damselfly (c) John Bloomfield

Parsonage Moor - 25th June

late pm in lightly overcast / intermittent sunshine conditions 

3 teneral Common Darter

Keeled and Black-tailed Skimmers

Four-spotted Chasers

Cothill Fen - 25th June

 late pm in lightly overcast / hazy sunshine conditions

Small Red Damselfly (male)

2 Small Red Damselfly

3 Large Red Damselfly

Common Blue and Azure Damselflies

Dry Sandford Pit - 23 June

4 Southern Damselfly
2 Keeled Skimmer
1 Broad-bodied Chaser
c. 6 Large Red Damsels

Peter Pool

Southern Damselfly (c) Peter Pool

Keeled Skimmer  (c) Peter Pool

Parsonage Moor/Cothill Fen, 24th June

Southern Damselfly - 18+ at Parsonage Moor, 2 at Cothill

Blue-tailed Damselfly - 1 at Parsonage Moor

Small Red Damselfly - 14+ at Cothill

Azure Damselfly - 1 at Parsonage Moor

Keeled Skimmer - 1 male, 1 female at Parsonage Moor, 1 teneral at Cothill

Black-tailed Skimmer - 3  at Parsonage Moor

Keeled Skimmer ♀© David Hastings

Small Red Damselfly ♀ © David Hastings

Willow Walk, Wantage - 24 June

Beautiful Demoiselle - 2-3 seen emerging alongside Bandeds, c. 11 am.

By footbridge and benches just in from A338.

Mark Bradfield

Boundary Brook Reserve, Oxford - 23 June

20+ Azure Damselfly
5+ Large Red Damselfly
2m Broad-bodied Chaser
1f Emperor ovipositing

Stephen Burch

Broad-bodied Chaser (c) Stephen Burch

Probable Emperor exuvia (c) Stephen Burch

Radley Lakes - 23 June

4 Banded Demoiselle

5 Emerald Damsels (4 Female,1 Male)

1 Large Red Damsel

1000's Common Blue Damsels

30+ Azure Damsels

20+ Blue-Tailed Damsels

30+ Red Eyed Damsels

5 Hairy Dragonflies

7 Emperor Dragonflies

1 Downy Emerald (Bullfield Lake)

20+ Four Spotted Chaser

1 Broad Bodied Chaser

20+ Black Tailed Skimmer

10+ Ruddy Darter (Tenerals)

Wayne Bull

Emerald Damselfly (f) (c) Wayne Bull

Trap Grounds - 23 June

100's Azures
3 Blue-tailed Damsels
10's Common Blue Damsels
3 Banded Demoiselle (2 Female, 1 Male)
1 Ruddy Darter
2 Hairy Dragonflies (m)
1 Southern Hawker teneral.... 

Nicola Devine

Banded Demoiselle (f) (c) Nicola Devine

Southern Hawker (c) Nicola Devine

Trap Grounds - 22 June

1f Ruddy Darter (first of the year!)
1 Emperor (female)
4 Banded Demoiselle (3 male, 1 Female)
100's  Azure's
10's Common Blue
2 Blue-tailed Damsels

Nicola Devine

Ruddy Darter (c) Nicola Devine

Otmoor, 23rd June

Southern Migrant Hawker - 1 female 

Broad-bodied Chaser 1

Four-spotted Chaser 2

Ruddy Darter 75+

Azure Damselfly

Blue-tailed Damselfly

(NB these were seen on the MoD land at Otmoor - no public access.)

Southern Migrant Hawker © David Hastings

Cothill Fen - 22nd June

16:30 - 17:10

Southern Damselfly (male)

4 Southern Damselfly (all male)

Blue-tailed Damselfly

Common Blue Damselfly

2 Keeled Skimmer

Dry Sandford Pit - 22nd June

15:30 - 16:00

Southern Damselfly (male)

9 Southern Damselfly (7m & 2f)

4 Common Blue Damselfly

Azure Damselfly

Keeled Skimmer

Longford Park, Banbury - 19 June

8 Scarce Blue Tailed Damsels ( 4 adult males, 4 females 1 mature, 3 " Aurantiaca")
2 Large Red Damsels
2 Blue Tailed Damsels
10 Azure Damsels

Wayne Bull

 Scarce Blue Tailed Damselfly ("Aurantiaca") (c) Wayne Bull

 Scarce Blue Tailed Damselfly (mature female) (c) Wayne Bull

Boundary Brook, Oxford - 17 June

 2 Broad-bodied Chaser

Helen Edwards

Note: Entry to the Boundary Brook reserve can be obtained by joining the Oxford Urban Wildlife Group (£5/year).

Broad-bodied Chaser (c) Helen Edwards

River Thames at Wargrave - 15 June

Club-tail: fully mature adult male on paddle board - flew off into Oxon!

Kate Dent

Club-tail (frame grab from video) (c) Kate Dent

Cothill Fen - 16 June

8 Large Red Damsels
10+ Small Red Damsels
7 Azure Damsels
2 Southern Damsels
1 Emperor Dragonfly
5 Four Spotted Chaser
2 Broad Bodied Chaser
8 Keeled Skimmer ( 2 Adult males, 6 tenerals)

Wayne Bull

Small Red Damselfly (c) Wayne Bull

Parsonage Moor 15 June

Southern Damselfly 50+ all along 'stream' to north of boardwalk.
Keeled skimmer 12+ - including pair in tandem.
Black-tailed Skimmer & Four-spotted Chaser - several of each
I Blue tailed damselfly
Emperor dragonfly.1m
Azure and Large-red damsels - quite a few around main pond area

Peter Philp

Trap Grounds, 15 June

2 Black-tailed Skimmers (both female)
3-4 Hairy Dragonflies
1 Four-spotted Chaser
3 Large Red Damsels
100's Azure Damsels
10's Common Blue Damsels
10's Blue-tailed Damsels
3 Banded Demoiselles (all male)
1 Beautiful Demoiselle (male) 

Nicola Devine

Beautiful Demoiselle (c) Nicola Devine

Black-tailed Skimmer (c) Nicola Devine

Longford Park, Banbury - 15 June

 15+ Scarce Blue Tailed Damsels inc 4 pale "Aurantiaca" phase females, 5 Teneral males and a pair in Tandem
7 Large Red Damsel
30+ Azure Damsels
5 Blue Tailed Damsels
2 Broad Bodied Chaser

Wayne Bull

 Scarce Blue Tailed Damselfly (teneral) (c) Wayne Bull

 Scarce Blue Tailed Damselfly (c) Wayne Bull

Dry Sandford Pit, 14th June

3 Southern Damselflies

4 Large Red Damselflies

4 Common Blue Damselflies

1 Black-tailed Skimmer

1 Broad-bodied Chaser

Southern Damselfly © David Hastings

Otmoor - 14 June 2020

 A note to remind everyone that on 14 June 2020, Geoff Wyatt found the first Southern Migrant Hawker on Otmoor - the first for Oxfordshire. 

So its not too early to start looking for them this year!

Stephen Burch

Whitecross Green Wood - 14 June

3 Beautiful Demoiselle
8+ Large Red Damsels
1 Common Blue Damsel
30+ Azure Damsels
3 Blue Tailed Damsels
1 White-legged Damsel (female)
4 Emperor Dragonfly
5+ Hairy Dragonfly
6+ Four Spotted Chaser
6+ Broad Bodied Chaser
4 Black Tailed Skimmer
10+ Ruddy Darter

Wayne Bull

Ruddy Darter (c) Wayne Bull

Farmoor - 13 June

Buckthorn Meadow pond and nearby

Banded Demoiselle (c) James Wainscoat

Black-tailed Skimmer in cop. (c) James Wainscoat

Longford Park, Banbury - 14th June

Scarce Blue-tail (adult male)

2 adult male Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly

1 teneral male Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly (my thanks to Wayne for this ID)

No Aurantiacae today

Scarce Blue-tail (teneral male)

3 Large Red Damselfly

Blue tailed Damselfly - uncounted

Numerous Azure Damsefly (many pairs in cop)

Shillingford & Little Wittenham - 13 June

Observations from four survey transects (one along R.Thames, Shillingford & three transects at the Earth Trust, Little Wittenham): Red-eyed Damselfly 30, White-legged Damselfly 2, Azure Damselfly 334, Common Blue Damselfly 10, Large Red Damselfly 9, Blue-tailed Damselfly 12, Banded Demoiselle 79, Hairy Hawker 16 Including one pair in cop), Emperor 5, Black-tailed Skimmer 6 (one emergent), Four-spotted Chaser 51, and Common Darter 111 (12 species, 665 observations).

Hairy Hawker pair in cop (c) John Bloomfield

Black-tailed Skimmer (c) John Bloomfield

Banbury - Bodicote Fishing Lake

 At SP4631836996:

1 Beautiful Demoiselle
3 Banded Demoiselle
2 Large Red Damsels
20+ White-Legged Damsels mostly in tandem
60+ Azure Damsels
3 Blue-Tailed Damsels
5 Red Eyed Damsels
1 Emperor Dragonfly
1 Broad Bodied Chaser
3 Four-Spotted Chaser

Wayne Bull

White-Legged Damselfly (c) Wayne Bull

Trap Grounds, Oxford - 13 June

 3-4 Hairy's one ovipositing
1 Emperor (male)
1 4-Spot Chaser
2 Broad Bodied Chasers (both female)
1 Large Red Damselfly
5 Blue Tailed Damselflies
1 Common Blue
100's Azures, many in cop or ovipositing 

Nicola Devine 

Female Azure Damselfly (blue form) (c) Nicola Devine

Azure Damselflies in cop. (c) Nicola Devine

Longford Park, Banbury - 13th June am

2 teneral female Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly

c4 adult male Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly

Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly (teneral female)

Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly (adult male)

Also:

Blue-tailed and Azure Damselflies

Large Red Damselflies

Four-Spotted Chasers

Broad Bodied Chasers

(all un-counted)

Trap Grounds - 12 June

 5-6 Hairy Hawkers (minimum) 
1 Four-Spot Chaser
3 Banded Demoiselle (1f, 2m)
3 Large Red
100s of Azures and 20+ Blue-Tailed  Damsels

Nicola Devine

Female Hairy Dragonfly (c) Nicola Devine

ex Hairy Dragonfly (c) Nicola Devine

Longford Park, Banbury - 12 June

On the storm water pool at SP469390:

8 Scarce Blue-Tailed Damsels (5 Male 3 Female all "Aurantiaca" Phase)
7 Large Red Damsels
50+ Azure Damsels
6 Blue-Tailed Damsels
5 Four-Spotted Chaser
5 Broad Bodied Chaser
1 Emperor Dragonfly

Wayne Bull

Note: Bankside Road is currently being resurfaced which may make parking difficult for the access track which starts at SP4657738930. The side roads should be OK though. 

Female Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly of the form Aurantiaca (c) Wayne Bull 

Male Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly (c) Wayne Bull 

Iffley Meadows, Oxford - 11 June

40+ Banded Demoiselle
3 Large Red Damsels
5 Common Blue Damsels
50+ Azure Damsels
10+ Blue-Tailed damsels
6 Red-Eyed Damsels

Wayne Bull

Blue-tailed Damselfly (violacea) (c) Wayne Bull

Tar Lakes, LWVGP - 11 June

 

Four-spotted Chaser (c) James Wainscoat

Thrupp Lake, Radley - 10 June

 

Black-tailed Skimmer (c) James Wainscoat

Shillingford - 8 June

R. Thames transect at Shillingford: Banded Demoiselle 73, Azure Damselfly 31, White-legged Damselfly 19, Blue-tailed Damselfly 3, Red-eyed Damselfly 1

White-legged Damselfly (c) John Bloomfield