Earth Trust Waterboards Odonata Transect: 20 Azure Damselflies, 9 Blue-tailed Damselflies, 2 Hairy Dragonflies, 4 Four-spotted Chasers, 1 White-legged Damselfly, 1 Red-eyed Damselfly.
Earth Trust Two Ponds Odonata Transect: 42 Azure Damselflies, 2 Emerald Damselflies, 2 Banded Demoiselles, 1 White-legged Damselfly, 2 Blue-tailed Damselflies 1 Red-eyed Damselfly, 2 Emperor Dragonflies, 2 Four-spotted Chasers
Little Wittenham Woods: 40+ Azure Damselflies, 1 Emperor Dragonfly (female ovipositing), and 2 Common Clubtails (both female).
Note Adrian Parr provided the identification of the Emerald Damselflies as immature females and noted the following: there is no 'spur' on the side of the thorax, and although the pterostigma are still quite pale they are too long and thin for a Willow Emerald - the latter being more barrel-shaped - and it is possible to see a darker main section with white bars at each end starting to develop.
All sightings entered on iRecord
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| Common Clubtail female (c) John Bloomfield |
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| Common Clubtail female (c) John Bloomfield |
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| Teneral female Emerald Damselfly (c) John Bloomfield |
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