Ron Lyons has written that the Swift Forktails are out flying along the southern OR coast (Bandon). Also, there are several dragonfly programs this month, no...
Hi all, While taking my son's class on a birding trip to the Battle Creek Wildlife Area (headquarters complex) and the Coleman Fish Hatchery, I saw several ...
Hi, I saw another newly-emerged <i>Argia vivida</i> today! Sighting Info: Date: 2 April 2004 County: Santa Clara Name: David Silon Location: Sunnyvale, front...
Hi David, Good to have you as a new CalOdes member. And, you are member #100!! We'd been wondering how soon we'd reach that mark! So, what's the grand prize??...
David and all, I've already collected one (female) Anax junius exuvia for your British DS collection. A female emerged Monday nite at a nearby friend's pond ...
I had my first Cardinal Meadowhawk of the season in the Pine Creek Area, near Pine Valley, San Diego County. Douglas Aguillard San Diego, CA doug@......
Great Doug! I too had a first today, a Spot-winged Glider at the Diablo County Club in Contra Costa County. I've also had a report from Alan Wight from a Death...
Sighting Info: Date: 7 April 2004 Time: 3:30 PM County: Santa Clara Name: David Silon Location: Pond at Picchetti Ranch Open Space Preserve Common Name:...
Hi all, Ray Bruun and I just made a foray to Turtle Bay West to see what all this warm weather has done. I can't swing a net yet after my recent back injury...
I spend a few hours Tuesday and Thursday at three sites on the EBMUD watershed. The consolidated list follows: Vivid Dancer (Argia vivida) -- Only one,...
Had the following in the Canyon: Common Green Darner California Darner Red Rock Skimmer Flame Skimmer Doug Aguillard San Diego, CA doug@... [Non-text...
Hi all, Stopped at a few spots today and found a few odes... Iron Point Rd, Folsom, SAC: 1 Common Whitetail (new ode for me!...you'll see that I've not been...
Started off on the Santa Margarita River in Northern San Diego County looking for my two nemesis Odes, the Sooty Dancer and the Grappletail. Here's what I did...
Just in from a trip up north to Siskiyou Co. Stopped by at Bear Creek @ Hwy. 20 on our way home today at about 5:15 p.m. 70 degrees out, but a strong wind and...
Hi all, I was taking a walk in the Redding Cemetery at noon today and found a very cooperative female ode that let me get very close. I noted all her field...
Hi all, Yesterday, 4-12, I had my first Blue-eyed Darner of the season. Out in the middle of the Algodones Dunes Wilderness Area?! I have been seeing Common ...
Hi Bob: Your list of migrants (Green Darner, Variegated Meadowhawk, and especially Spot-winged Glider) sound like what I am seeing (and have been for a few...
Please pardon the cross posting. It's not a large article, but USA Today (the newspaper) has a short article on dragonflies with a great picture by our own...
Hi Doug (and all CalOders), ... It's not on my CA website - I had it there for a while a year or two ago, but folks downloading it were taking up so much...
Hi folks: Whike spending much of the day Friday, April 16, doing Tricolored Blackbird surveys in Butte, Yuba and Sutter counties, I snuck in a few side trips...
Slightly belated report -- on April 10, a well-marked, mature male Red Rock Skimmer flew past several of us (while we were conducting a birding "Big Day") at...
Today (4/17/04) on Pine Flat Road in northeastern Sonoma County, Ned Wynn and I saw the following: Pacific Clubtail - 1 Grappletail - 1 male Bison Snaketail -...
Alan's 4/17/04 flight date for Bison Snaketail, is a week earlier than the previous early date of 4/17/01. Thanks for checking on that Alan, and for reporting...
... In this context, I should mention that on April 8, I found a dead male Red Rock Skimmer, headless and waterlogged, in one of the ponds I was checking on...
... Hi Odonata list members I'm attending a conference in Anaheim (Los Angeles) and will have a good weeks holiday afterwards in the end of may. Planning to...
Both the Boreal and Arroyo Bluets I reported for April 6-8 apparently represented early flight dates. I didn't know the Arroyo was early, so I didn't collect...
Hello members, I will be on a business (new job) trip until 05/03/04. If you have any problems with this list, please be patient until my return and I will fix...
Hi all, Went for a short walk around the Laguna Wetlands Park in Sebastopol today. It was 80 but quite windy. I was hoping to see my first saddlebag of the...
Hi all: Kathy Biggs' report of her observations in Sonoma County encouraged me to report my observations from today, as well. These were made walking the...
