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Showing posts with label Banded Demoiselle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Banded Demoiselle. Show all posts
Friday, 2 August 2019
Demoiselles in North Yorkshire...
Tuesday, 18 August 2015
Norfolk - Days 1 & 2
Last week we had a family break in Norfolk and managed to fit in some decent trips birding!
On day one we had our first look at the Cley gull roost. An adult Caspian Gull was present and a stunning first-summer appeared later on. The number of Yellow-legged Gulls was impressive (compared to what we get in the north-east!), with at least 12 present.
A good forecast for the next day persuaded us to go to Kelling Water Meadows to look for the Red-veined Darters which had been seen there recently. Sure enough they were present along with a host of other dragonflies some of which we don't often get to see in Northumberland...
7+ Red-veined Darter
10+ Emperor
10+ Black-tailed Skimmer
1 Banded Demoiselle
1 Migrant Hawker
2 Southern Hawker
Common Darter
Common Blue Damselfly
Blue-tailed Damselfly
1 Holly Blue
5+ Gatekeeper
10+ Common Blue
A Red Kite flew over Holkham Pines in the afternoon, before we had another luck at the Cley gull roost. Today there was 3 Caspian Gulls (yesterday's first-summer and 2 adults, looking at my photos I think they were both different to yesterday's bird). Slightly fewer Yellow-legged Gulls this evening with 7+, and a single adult Mediterranean Gull.
Back at our cabin in the forest I saw my first Perseid meteor of the year.
Common Blue Damselfly
Blue-tailed Damselfly
1 Holly Blue
5+ Gatekeeper
10+ Common Blue
A Red Kite flew over Holkham Pines in the afternoon, before we had another luck at the Cley gull roost. Today there was 3 Caspian Gulls (yesterday's first-summer and 2 adults, looking at my photos I think they were both different to yesterday's bird). Slightly fewer Yellow-legged Gulls this evening with 7+, and a single adult Mediterranean Gull.
Back at our cabin in the forest I saw my first Perseid meteor of the year.
First-summer Caspian Gull on the first evening.
One of day two's adult Caspians.
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| Adult Yellow-legged Gull |
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| Red-veined Darters - the last photo's pretty poor but it shows the 'classic' Red-veined Darter pose quite well. |
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| Migrant Hawker |
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| Southern Hawker |
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| Emperor |
Friday, 31 July 2015
July...
It's been quite quiet on the birding front in Northumberland this summer, so I've decided to do one post to sum the month up.
On the 5th a female Whinchat was at Chevington along with 17 Mediterranean Gulls at Chevington.
Over the weekend of the 18th-19th we headed down to Gloucestershire for the Royal International Air Tattoo. Red Kites were seen from the car in the usual place near York and one headed over RAF Farirford on Sunday, managing to avoid the displays, however another bird forced one of the French Mirage 2000s to stop it's display! If your interested in seeing any of my photos from the airshow click here.
The next day we had a family trip into Tewkesbury and we managed to find some White-legged Damselflies along the River Severn as well as plenty of Banded Demoiselles.
The day we got back we joined the NHSN boat trip around Coquet Island, which resulted in great views of Roseate Terns, and singles of Artic Skua and Manx Shearwater.
Closer to home, Castle Island proved to be the pick of the sites, attracting good numbers of waders over the last couple of weeks including: 8 Black-tailed Godwits, 11 Common Sandpipers and a Ruff on the 23rd, 3 Green Sandpipers, a Greenshank and 8+ Dunlin from the 26th-28th.
A seawatch on the 28th was quiet bird-wise. In 3.5 hours...
40+ Manx Shearwater
8 Shelduck
99 Common Scoter
1 Little Gull
1 Great Skua
1 Whimbrel
5 Little Tern
Plenty of Arctic Terns moving north.
A pod of c.15 Bottlenose Dolphins passed Church Point very close inshore, provding great views, including a few small youngsters and a distinctively scarred adult. 18 Black-tailed Godwits were at Cresswell Pond.
A Roseate Tern flew north passed Hadston on the 29th, only my second addition to PWC15 this month.
PWC 15
Species: 154
Points:203
On the 5th a female Whinchat was at Chevington along with 17 Mediterranean Gulls at Chevington.
Over the weekend of the 18th-19th we headed down to Gloucestershire for the Royal International Air Tattoo. Red Kites were seen from the car in the usual place near York and one headed over RAF Farirford on Sunday, managing to avoid the displays, however another bird forced one of the French Mirage 2000s to stop it's display! If your interested in seeing any of my photos from the airshow click here.
The next day we had a family trip into Tewkesbury and we managed to find some White-legged Damselflies along the River Severn as well as plenty of Banded Demoiselles.
The day we got back we joined the NHSN boat trip around Coquet Island, which resulted in great views of Roseate Terns, and singles of Artic Skua and Manx Shearwater.
Closer to home, Castle Island proved to be the pick of the sites, attracting good numbers of waders over the last couple of weeks including: 8 Black-tailed Godwits, 11 Common Sandpipers and a Ruff on the 23rd, 3 Green Sandpipers, a Greenshank and 8+ Dunlin from the 26th-28th.
A seawatch on the 28th was quiet bird-wise. In 3.5 hours...
40+ Manx Shearwater
8 Shelduck
99 Common Scoter
1 Little Gull
1 Great Skua
1 Whimbrel
5 Little Tern
Plenty of Arctic Terns moving north.
A pod of c.15 Bottlenose Dolphins passed Church Point very close inshore, provding great views, including a few small youngsters and a distinctively scarred adult. 18 Black-tailed Godwits were at Cresswell Pond.
A Roseate Tern flew north passed Hadston on the 29th, only my second addition to PWC15 this month.
PWC 15
Species: 154
Points:203
Bottlenose Dolphins
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| Roseate Terns |
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| White-legged Damselflies |
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| Banded Demoiselle |
Tuesday, 2 July 2013
North Yorkshire to Snowdonia
Over the weekend me and my uncle went down to the Midlands and a few sites in Wales looking for Butterflies and Dragonflies. On Friday evening we went to Catterick in North Yorkshire, where a drake Ring-necked Duck was present with a flock of Tufted Ducks.
The first place we went to on Saturday was Barkbooth Lot in Cumbria where we failed to find any Downy Emeralds, but we found a female Beautiful Demoiselle next to a small stream. Next to Cheshire where the only dragonflies we saw were about 5 Banded Demoiselles. Before we found somewhere to camp we decided to have a look at nearby Prees Heath to try and find some Silver-studded Blues. It took a while but we did find a few eventually. A Hobby also flew over us while we were there.
The next morning we went to a place on Anglesey called Porth Eilian to look for the first summer male Common Rosefinch which had been present there for the past few days. After about an hour we got a view of it as it gave it's distictive song from the top of a tree. The main reason we came to Wales was to try and see the Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly, though after chechking one known site for them all we could find was a Hairy Dragonfly. Luckily we did know of another place where you could find them in Snowdonia. Almost as soon as we arrived we found an immature female of the form aurantica. Over the next hour we found another male as well as a few Keeled Skimmers.
The first place we went to on Saturday was Barkbooth Lot in Cumbria where we failed to find any Downy Emeralds, but we found a female Beautiful Demoiselle next to a small stream. Next to Cheshire where the only dragonflies we saw were about 5 Banded Demoiselles. Before we found somewhere to camp we decided to have a look at nearby Prees Heath to try and find some Silver-studded Blues. It took a while but we did find a few eventually. A Hobby also flew over us while we were there.
The next morning we went to a place on Anglesey called Porth Eilian to look for the first summer male Common Rosefinch which had been present there for the past few days. After about an hour we got a view of it as it gave it's distictive song from the top of a tree. The main reason we came to Wales was to try and see the Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly, though after chechking one known site for them all we could find was a Hairy Dragonfly. Luckily we did know of another place where you could find them in Snowdonia. Almost as soon as we arrived we found an immature female of the form aurantica. Over the next hour we found another male as well as a few Keeled Skimmers.
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| Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary |
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| Beautiful Demoiselle |
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| Silver-studded Blues |
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| Common Rosefinch record shot |
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| Immature female Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly of the form aurantica |
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| Male Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly |
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| Eclipse drake Ring-necked Duck (bottom left) |
Sunday, 9 June 2013
Insect hunting in Cumbria
We had two targets in mind when we set off for Cumbria this morning: Small Blue in Workington and Marsh Fritillaries at Finglandrigg Wood. The Small Blues weren't hard to find with 5 or 6 being seen in the time we were there. A few Dingy Skippers were also present. Next to Finglandrigg where the Marsh Fritillaries were obvious when we found the right field. We also found a female Banded Demoiselle at the entrance to the field. We still had a bit of time left so we headed north to a site to try and see White-faced Darters. It took us a while to find the breeding pools but when we did the Darters were very easy to see. They even landed on me and my Dad a couple of times.
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| Small Blues |
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| Marsh Fritillaries |
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| Dingy Skipper |
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| Banded Demoiselle |
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| White-faced Darters |
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