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Having received an email from David Williams entitled 'free lunch' I could never have imagined it meant the following.....Dragonfly recording on  the River Severn at Hampton Loade David came across the following Common Club-tail disaster:The…

Just when I was starting to wonder what was happening welcome news arrives from Roger Littleover that Common Club-tail Gomphus vulgatissimus has been seen over near Quatt. Roger's photo below shows the stocky straight sided…

Large Red Damselfly records are starting to pick up across the county with Warwick Davies spotting a few adults at his pond near Oswestry and Peta Sams recording an adult basking in the sun in…

Well a fabulous stretch of spring sunshine has finally got the dragonflies underway with the first reported sighting in Shropshire of a Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula. This teneral female was seen by Joena Scott…

The great weather is here so I thought I better emerge before our first Large Red Damselflies put in an appearance! Last year we had many early sightings with the first Large Red Damselfly recorded on…

Thanks to Paul Spear who's still keeping an eye on things we have a really late Shropshire sighting of Common Darter - 4 to be precise! All seen yesterday (3rd Nov) at Venus Pools. 2…

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Good to hear from Warwick Davies who has been keeping an eye on the latecomers. Common Blue Damselfly seen (below) along with Southern Hawker at a newly built scrape near Edgerley on 7th September.Warwick's own…

Despite a few autumnal mornings creeping in a good few species are still being recorded. Paul Hopwood reports seeing a number of Common Darters and hawkers at Venus Pool today and at Mousecroft Pool in…

After an amazing week of sunshine it's great to return to a good number of Shropshire records still coming in. I saw a grand total of 1 hawker dragonfly last week flying between tiny remote islands…