Thursday 6 August 2009

Records for Sunday 2nd August






Not posted for a while - a combination of being away on holiday [to Corfu] and rubbish weather when able to go out!
I was very pleased to receive a report [with photos] from a new recorder, Barry Watts. He lives in Frome and visited Stourhead for the first time on Sunday. As well as some Common Blue and Blue-tailed Damselflies he saw the first reported Migrant Hawker and Common Darters for Wilts for the year. As well as this there was an ovipositing Brown Hawker, some Broad-bodied Chasers and an ancient female 4-spot Chaser [looking her age!]

On the same day I had the first Southern hawker in my garden for some time - a pristine male in his prime.
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2 comments:

  1. Randy Emmitt7 August 2009 at 12:10

    Steve,
    Thanks for the report and these nice photos! never heard of any of these places you mentioned.

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  2. Steve Covey10 August 2009 at 09:39

    Hi Randy, thanks for the nice comments. Frome is just outside Wiltshire in North east Somerset and is a small market town. Stourhead is a National Trust property and is workd reknowned for it's architecture and magnificent landscaped gardens and lakes [where the dragonfly interest comes in!]. If you do a Google search all sorts of info will come up for Stourhead.
    Cheers,
    Steve.

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