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Friday, 8 July 2022

Parsonage Moor, 8th July

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Seen between 10:45 and 11:45 today in hot sunshine. Azure Damselfly : 6 Southern Damselfly : 25+ (several pairs in cop) Small Red Damselfly:...

Lye Valley, Oxford - 8 July

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1f Beautiful Demoiselle 2m Banded Demoiselle Azure Damselfly - 10s 1-2 Common Darter 1m Southern Hawker, per PR No sign of any Keeled Skimme...
Thursday, 7 July 2022

Otmoor - 7 July

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Pill area: Emerald Damselfly (1f) Blue-tailed Damselfly (1m) Pete Roby Note: In same area on 6th July, sighting of a possible mature male So...
Monday, 4 July 2022

Trap Grounds, Oxford - 3 July

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  Three female Beautiful Demoiselles together © Nicola Devine
Sunday, 3 July 2022

Steeple Aston - 3 July

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Southern Hawkers are beginning to emerge from the garden pond where 40 were counted in 2020 and 29 in 2021! Two seen emerging 3.7.22 and 1 o...

Clattercote Reservoir - 3 July

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White-legged damselfly 64+ including 28 pairs, several ovipositing Azure damselfly 20+ Common Blue damselfly 30+  Azure/Common a few hundred...

Paper on The Dragonflies and Damselflies of Oxfordshire - just published!

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As you some of you may be aware, Fritillary is the journal of the The Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire . It has been someti...
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Saturday, 2 July 2022

Whitecross Green Wood, 1st July

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Activity mostly around the pond at SP603143. All but two of the Emperors were patrolling the rides. Beautiful Demoiselle 1♀ Common Blue Dams...
Friday, 1 July 2022

Trap Grounds, Oxford - 1 July

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Southern Hawker 3  (inc. 1 teneral) Beautiful Demoiselle 1m, 1f Banded Demoiselle 1f Azure Damselfly 30+ (2 pairs in tandem, 1 pair oviposit...
Wednesday, 29 June 2022

Wroxton College Lakes - 29 June

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Beautiful Demoiselle 1m Azure damsel 100+ several in tandem, some ovipositing Common blue damselfly 10+  Blue damselflies a few 100s, identi...

Banbury/Bodicote - 29 June

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Bodicote Fishing Lake:- 1 Banded Demoiselle 5 White legged Damsels  20+ Azure Damsels 2 Blue Tailed Damsels 8 Red Eyed Damsels 2 Emperor Dra...

Otmoor - Roman Road - 28 June

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10s Blue Damselflies 4 Ruddy Darters James Wainscoat Ruddy Darter © James Wainscoat
Tuesday, 28 June 2022

Trap Grounds, Oxford - 28 June

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Southern Hawker (1st of year) Beautiful Demoiselle's 2m 2f Common Darter 1 Ruddy Darter 1m (another Darter seen but couldn’t ID) Azure D...
Sunday, 26 June 2022

Trap Grounds, Oxford - 26 June

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Beautiful Demoiselle 4  (1m, 3f) Brown Hawker (first of year) Ruddy Darter 1m Azures 40+ some in cop. some ovipositing Blue-tailed 5+ Nicola...
Thursday, 23 June 2022

Oxford Botanic Gardens - 22 June

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10s of Small Red-eyed Damselflies  1 Four spotted Chaser 2 Emperor dragonfly James Wainscoat Small Red-eyed Damselflies in cop.© James Wains...
Wednesday, 22 June 2022

Trap Grounds, Oxford 22 June

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  Banded Demoiselle (f) © Nicola Devine

Radley Lakes/Barton Field fishing pool

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5 Banded Demoiselle 8 Emerald Damsels (6 males 2 females) Orchard Lake 100's Common Blue Damsels 30+ Azure Damsels 2 Variable Damsels ...

Grove Meadows Stormwater Pond - 22 June

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10+ Small Red-eyed Damselfly Blue Damselflies (Azure only positively identified) 2-3 Blue-tailed Damselfly  2+m Emperor 3+ Four-spotted Chas...

Lye Valley LNR, Headington - 22 June

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8 - 10 Keeled Skimmer  (all male) Blue Damselflies
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Tuesday, 21 June 2022

Trap Grounds, Oxford - 21 June

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Four-spotted Chaser L arge Red Damselfly Banded Demoiselle 2m Azure Damselfly   3 in cop.  several ovipositing Blue-tailed Damselfly  10+ Co...
Monday, 20 June 2022

Woodford Bottom (BBOWT reserve) - Sibford - 20 June

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Broad-bodied Chaser 3m 1f.   Mating seen and female ovipositing in shallow pools (trampled by cattle) where brook is overspilling into the m...

Trap Grounds, Oxford

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  Common Blue Damselfly (f) © Nicola Devine

Cothill reserves - 20 June

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Dry Sandford Pit:- 4 Large Red Damsels 8+ Southern Damsels 3 Azure Damsels 2 Blue Tailed Damsels 1 Broad Bodied Chaser 6+ Keeled Skimmer Cot...

Farmoor - 19 June

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Many blue damselflies,  4 Black-tailed skimmers 4 Emperor dragonflies James Wainscoat Black-tailed Skimmer © James Wainscoat Emperor oviposi...
Sunday, 19 June 2022

Cholsey Meadows - 19 June

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3 Small Red-eyed Damselfly Alan Dawson  Small Red-eyed Damselfly © Alan Dawson
Saturday, 18 June 2022

Cholsey Meadows - 17 June evening

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Small Red-eyed Damselfly 3-4. First of year Geoff Wyatt Small Red-eyed Damselfly © Geoff Wyatt

Otmoor - 17 June

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Four-spotted Chaser Broad-bodied Chaser  Black-tailed Skimmer Hairy Dragonfly  Brown Hawker - 2 Emperor Downy Emerald  - 3 along bridleway d...

Lamb's Pool BBOWT - 17 June

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Large red damselfly 2m White-legged damselfly 12+ includes 3 pair in tandem/wheel Azure damselfly 30 including several in tandem, some ovipo...
Friday, 17 June 2022

Standlake Pit 60 - 16 June

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Black-tailed Skimmer: huge numbers over the water, as far as I could see, probably 100+ Stephen Burch

Dry Sandford Pit & Parsonage Moor - BBOWT transects - 16 June

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Dry Sandford Pit 55 Southern Damselfly 19 Keeled Skimmer 10 Black-tailed Skimmer 1 Broad Bodied Chaser Large Red Damselfly and Azure Damself...

Radley Lakes - 17 June

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1 Emerald Damsel (Orchard Lake) Common Blue/Azure Damsels 15+ Blue Tailed Damsels 15+ Red Eyed Damsels 1 Hairy Dragonfly (Orchard Lake) 2 E...

Dry Sandford Pit, 17th June

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Southern Damselfly : 6m, 3f Large Red Damselfly : 3m Keeled Skimmer : 5m Keeled Skimmer ♂© David Hastings Southern Damselflies in cop © Davi...

River Thames NW of Shillingford - 17 June morning

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Scarce Chaser 2m still :  From approx 9am it was favouring the last fisherman's bay along the track, a few metres before a gate into the...

Didcot, Dida Gardens pond - 17 June morning

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Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly: 2m+ in southern corner, 1 on northern edge. Common Blue/Azure Damselfly Emperor 1m, 1f ovipositing Broad-bodi...
Thursday, 16 June 2022

Trap Grounds, Oxford - 16 June

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Beautiful Demoiselle (f) Banded Demoiselle 2 1m 1f Broad bodied Chaser 1f Large Red Damselfly 2 Azures, plenty, many in cop. or ovipositing ...

River Thames NW of Shillingford - 16 June

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Scarce Chaser 2m! Clashed violently late morning and soared together high vertically in the air whilst doing battle until they were lost fr...