Orchard Lake, Radley Lakes, 30 April

 2 Common Blue Damselflies (males)
1 Banded Demoiselle (male)
3 Hairy Dragonflies, including a pair ‘in cop’.

Phil Cruse

Hairy Dragonflies in cop. © Phil Cruse

Banded Demoiselle © Phil Cruse

Radley Lakes, 30 April

3 Banded demoiselle (2m1f)
20+ Common blue Damselfly
7 Azure Damselfly (4m 3f)
4 Red eyed Damselfly
2-3 Hairy Dragonflies 1 Orchard lake, 1-2 near Barton pool

Wayne Bull

Azure Damselfly © Wayne Bull

Banded Demoiselle © Wayne Bull

Hairy Dragonfly © Wayne Bull

Goring, 29 April

2-5 adult Clubtails at SU602795 (about 200m upstream of the railway bridge). Also 2-5 larvae and 2-5 emergents reported! Emergence under the railway bridge also reported.
Banded Demoiselle

Steve Cham, Alan Holmes;, Jon Van Gowler, Nick Percival per iRecord

Radley Lakes, 28th April

11 Common Blue Damselfly (7 males 4 females)
1 Blue Tailed Damselfly 
1 Red Eyed Damselfly 

Wayne Bull

Common Blue Damselfly (teneral) © Wayne Bull

Blue-tailed Damselfly © Wayne Bull

Red-eyed Damselfly (teneral) © Wayne Bull

29th April

Cholsey Marsh

Banded Demoiselle : 3♂ 1♀

Aston Upthorpe Downs

Large Red Damselfly : 1♂ (immature).

David Hastings

Banded Demoiselle © David Hastings

Central Oxford 28th April 2025

A Large Red Damselfly sighting in my garden in the Jericho area of Oxford this afternoon.

 

Aston, 28th April

My first odonate of the year today - a teneral Large Red Damselfly which had probably emerged from my garden pond in Aston, west Oxon.

David  Hastings

Large Red Damselfly © David Hastings

John Radcliffe Hospital, 17 April

Garden pond. SP540074

1 Large Red Damselfly 

Tess Wright

Banbury, 15 April

 2 Large Red Damselflies in a Banbury garden. SP465375.

Wayne Bull

The 2025 season is up and running!

Large Red Damselfly © Wayne Bull