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Incredibly Jan Shields ventured out last Thursday in the unbelievable heat to Cramer Gutter where she managed to record our first and only Keeled Skimmer sightings so far for this year. The female is beautifully…

I was checking a private pool near Habberley yesterday and was very surprised to see this male Willow Emerald Damselfly. Apologies for the photos, but you can see the length of abdomen which was really…

Mark Underwood has been monitoring Pole Cottage Pools on the Longmynd and reporting there are barely any pools left at all. Despite a largely dried out habitat there were still a few individuals hawking over…

Dry weather continues and waterbodies are drying up which is not great news for some of our declining species. Fortunately there is still water in Wildmoor Pool on the Longmynd where Ivan Grove saw this…

Tom Lowe has visited Oss Mere just NE of Whitchurch and seen a good number of Small Red-eyed Damselflies. This delicate insect (left) has more striking bright red eyes and more blue extending in towards…

The first record of Migrant Hawker has come in from Selattyn near Oswestry. I would post the photo but sadly I cannot contact the recorder as the record has come in via iNat. Instead I've…

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…