Valley Park, 2 July evening

This new storm water site with open access is in Didcot, just south of the A4130 link road from the A34. It was described in Ian's initial post back in May -  https://oxondragonflies.blogspot.com/2026/05/valley-park-didcot.html.

The OS coords of the main spot he reported then are SU497913.

13+ Scarce Blue-tailed Damselflies . 5 males, the rest were tenerals of both sexes presumably second broods?

15 Blue-tailed Damselflies
2 Four-spotted Chasers
3 Black-tailed Skimmers
3 Emperors
Common Darters and Common Blue Damselflies

Ian Lewington

Scarce-blue tailed Damselfly (immature, Aurantiaca phase) © Ian Lewington

Scarce-blue tailed Damselfly (immature, Aurantiaca phase) © Ian Lewington

Scarce-blue tailed Damselfly © Ian Lewington