20 September 2008
A Southern Hawker and frequent Common Darters were noted over the Coastal Link Cyclepath.
11
September 2008
A
Southern
Hawker
was
seen by the Ladywells Stream and Coombes Road.
10 September 2008
6
August 20084 August 2008
A handful of Common Darters (dragonflies) were seen at the top of Buckingham Park and a Southern Hawker in the Butterfly Copse (next to the Waterworks Road).
22
-23 July 2008
About
half a dozen Southern Hawkers
were
seen on the downs in the two days from Slonk
Hill Farm to the Waterworks
Road,
with a Common Darter
on Mill Hill.
20
July 2008
The
first Common Darter
(dragonfly) of the year was seen in the Butterfly
Copse next to the Waterworks
Road, Old Shoreham, resting on Common
Bindweed.
17
July 2008
A
Southern
Hawker flew over the
Waterworks
Road, Old Shoreham at a height of about
six metres.
5 July
2008
A
Southern
Hawker flew rapidly along Ham Road, Shoreham by Somerfield supermarket
at a height of about four metres. I estimated its speed at about 12 mph.
30
June 2008
A
large blue dragonfly hawked the Coastal
Link Cyclepath just 50 metres north of the Toll
Bridge, Old Shoreham, and another one flew over Anchor
Bottom. They were almost certainly both Southern
Hawkers.
29
June 2008
A
large blue dragonfly hawked over the southern
part of Buckingham Cutting and this was
thought most likely to be a Southern Hawker.
24
June 2008
Over
the Lancing Ring dewpond
and a male Broad-bodied Chaser dragonfly
dipped its head on to the surface of the water, and it was accompanied
by a one third longer dragonfly in bright blue which was either the frequently
seen
Southern Hawker,
or the locally scarce Emperor Dragonfly.
Either of the latter two would have been first for the year.
17
June 2008
On
the southern bank of the Slonk Hill Cutting
covered in hundreds of Common Spotted Orchids
and frequent Pyramidal Orchids,
my first Common Darter (dragonfly)
of
the year rested on a herb, followed by a strong-flying female Broad-bodied
Chaser,
Libellula
depressa, over
the scrub hedgerow area on both sides of the path to the west of the spinney.
8 June 2008
4 June 2008
15
May 2008
Scores of Azure Damselflies, Coenagrion puella, flew over Spring Dyke, north of Old Shoreham. Not so much as flying as darting about in the air over the vegetation which contained about 20% Stinging Nettles.
10
May 2008
The
first female
Broad-bodied
Chaser
(dragonfly),
Libellula
depressa, of the year flew
across in front of me at the top of the Pixie
Path. A male and female pair of
Azure
Damselflies, Coenagrion puella,were
also seen on the north-south section of the Pixie Path.
9 May
2008
A
Large
Red Damselfly, Pyrrhosoma
nymphula,
was seen in the scrub of Mill Hill.
But
there was also a puzzling damselfly that eluded the camera on the Pixie
Path. Its body was a dark grey and the wings were misty rather than
veined like the normal blues. It was smaller with a body about the same
size as a Large Red Damselfly.
I originally thought that this could be a female Beautiful
Damselfly Calopteryx
virgo, but I have now rejected this identification.The
female damsel is not as distinctive and colourful as the male with its
vivid blue abdomen.
6 May 2008
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