Stephen Barlow has seen and photographed this female Azure Damselfly at Whixall Moss on Saturday 4th May. Stephen also reported good numbers of Large Red Damselflies present in the more sheltered spots and 5 more Four-spotted…
adminMay 6, 2019
Hot on the heels of the first sightings, Large Reds were seen at both Attingham Park (by Paul Spear) and Whixall Moss (by Stephen Barlow) on Good Friday. Paul took the photo shown here of…
adminApril 23, 2019
And we're off! Maria Justamond has seen the first Large Red Damselflies emerging in Shropshire at Upton Magna yesterday- Wednesday 17th April. Several were seen and I'm sure that with the amazing forecast we should see much…
adminApril 18, 2019
Well after a hint of summer back in February and then a hot week last week I thought I'd better launch the 2019 blog just in case we have early records coming in.....and now snow is…
adminApril 2, 2019
Despite extensive searching Stephen Barlow found no further Common Darters at Whixall and the last known sighting was on 18th November but unfortunately on the Welsh side of the Moss! Keep me posted if you…
adminNovember 20, 2018
Stephen Barlow reports 2 more Common Darters seen at Whixall Moss on 13th November and 'a hawker' -the latter just inconveniently over the border in Wales! The latest recorded sighting of Common Darter in Shropshire…
adminNovember 14, 2018
Stephen Barlow has been seeking out more early November Common Darters finding them in sun traps on Whixall Moss. Interestingly Stephen points out that due to the low sun at this time of year a…
adminNovember 5, 2018
Despite the recent hard frosts Stephen Barlow is still seeing a reasonable number of species lurking in the warmer spots on Whixall Moss. These pics of a female Migrant Hawker (left), Black Darter (below left)…
adminNovember 1, 2018
Stephen Barlow reports Black Darter and Migrant Hawker still on the wing at Whixall Moss last week as well as Common Hawker - a female seen here with a very parallel sided abdomen, not waisted…
adminOctober 25, 2018