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Fabulous weather and lots of records coming in including a possible sighting of Emerald Damselfly at Whixall Moss by Meurig Garbutt on 20th June. Unfortunately no photos due to Meurig doing battle with biting insects- something…

Following a conversation with Keith Fowler re a possible sighting of Common Darter a number of days ago (to be confirmed...) I subsequently received proof from Ian Barrie with the following photo of a teneral…

Having spent a frustrating cloudy hour stood at Rea Brook yesterday I was very pleased to hear from David Williams who had been the day before and seen everything! Banded and Beautiful Demoiselles, Large Red…

Whixall Moss was enjoyed by Michael Foley last week who saw Four-spotted Chasers, Azure and Blue-tailed Damselflies and White-faced Darters- still looking fabulous as seen below:

David Williams was out enjoying 'clouds of bewildering blue damsels' at Dudmaston on Saturday 14th. Amongst the Common Blues, Blue-tailed and Azures he took this great shot of Red-eyed Damselflies in cop at Seggy Pool.Also…

Paul Hope and Christian East both struck lucky last Friday with early separate sightings of the magnificent Brown Hawker. Paul saw an individual hawking along the hedgerow near Betton Abbots just south east of Shrewsbury…

Gwyn and Sue Hiatt have been very busy recording near Telford which keeps me occupied (!) and also provides some lovely photos to share. At Priorslee Lake on 6th June amongst a plethora of damselflies they…

Michael Foley took advantage of the weather window last Thursday and visited Berrington Pool where amongst the Common Blue and Azure damselflies he also spotted Variable Damselfly and Red-eyed Damselfly. This is a regular site…

Just returned from checking a privately owned site to the north east of Shrewsbury where I was lucky enough to see Downy Emerald -recorded for the second year at this location which is great. Though the…

I was lucky enough to visit one of the privately owned meres south of Shrewsbury yesterday with a couple of photographers. There we saw a good number of Variable Damselflies which were snapped by Jim…