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Jan Shields has sent in some lovely photos taken on a dragonfly course at Attingham Park yesterday. We saw numerous Ruddy Darter (left) and surprisingly only 1 Common Darter (below left). Emperors seemed to be…

Stephen Barlow has sent in this fascinating sequence of photos showing a male Black-tailed Skimmer harassing a female Brown Hawker looking to oviposit. Taken up at Marbury Big Mere, but such interesting photos had to…

Stephen Barlow has sent in this great photo of Lesser Emperors ovipositing. It was taken in Cheshire on Marbury Big Mere, but definitely worth posting on the Shropshire blog as this behaviour of ovipositing in…

Now we have 3 species of red coloured male darters on the wing I thought I'd take a closer look at the 2 you're more likely to see. Stephen Barlow has sent in this photo…

Mark Underwood has sent in these great photos from the Long Mynd. Firstly a female Golden-ringed Dragonfly enjoying a light lunch and below a lovely inflight Emperor Dragonfly and a female ovipositing. The Emperors were…

Another day another Red-veined Darter! Harry Beaman recorded this fabulous male at Newton Mere yesterday (between The Mere at Ellesmere and Colemere). This is a textbook male with a single stripe on the side of…

Harry Beaman had an amazing days dragonfly recording at The Mere in Ellesmere yesterday! Firstly he saw this Red-veined Darter- the first recorded in Shropshire since 2012! The photos left and below left show the…

It's all happening on the meres in Shropshire...Harry Beaman has seen around 15 (!) Norfolk Hawkers on Crosemere and 1 Lesser Emperor on 4th July. Lesser Emperor has only been recorded twice before in Shropshire…

Jake Dudderidge has been on the moss at Whixall on 29th June and seen the first few Black Darters. His lovely photo left shows a female with the diagnostic spots on the side of the…

Stephen Barlow has sent in this stunning inflight photo of Lesser Emperor seen just north of the Shropshire border at Marbury Big Mere last Friday. John Roberts the Cheshire County Dragonfly Recorder informs me that…