Hi all, Dennis Paulson will be here with us in Sonoma Co. on Saturday. He and Netta are hoping to photograph Exclamation Damsels, SF Forktails, and Black...
Please update your maps/charts: May 25, 2004 Colusa County Greg Kareofelas *Amphiagrion abbreviatum Western Red Damsel - specimen caught, upgrade from a...
One more new county record for this species: Willow Lake, Tehama Co, coll Greg Kareofelas (#28 on the excel chart). This fills in the biggest 'hole' in the...
Thanks to Tim for spotting my typo in last post. Greg's Western Red Damsel, Tehama Co. record, was at WILSON LAKE, not Willow Lake (Greg went to both places...
Hi all, Today, Bruce Webb and I set out to find some odonates in and around the Roseville-Auburn area. At Miner's Ravine behind the United Artist Theater,...
Hi all, I stumbled across this cool web page on the internet last night. If I'm not mistaken, this interactive panoramic shows the Shasta River at Hudson Road...
Hi all, Dennis Paulson and his wife Netta Smith came down from Seattle to take pix of CA endemics for Dennis's forthcoming Western USA Dragonflies guide. First...
Hi all, Got some new pictures up on Shasta County Dragonflies and Damselflies, including Taiga Bluet, California Darner, Dot-tailed Whiteface, etc. ...
Hi all, Today at Gold Bug Park on Bedford Ave in Placerville I found a patrolling PACIFIC SPIKETAIL. What a impressive bug! There were also 5-6 CARDINAL ...
Hi all, Yesterday, 6/6, I accompanied my wife on a garden tour of 4 properties in the Redding area. One homeowner was a little non-plussed to find me staring...
Hi all, I've added a few ode photos to my web site that I've made this year: Exclamation Damsels at: http://www.ericwpreston.com/ExclamationDamsel_1.html and ...
Hi all, I went to the pond at the Happy Camp River Park and spent the afternoon netting numerous odes. Weather was partly cloudy w/temps in the 60's. Here is...
Hi all, I went to Kelly Lake today to see if any odes were flying yet. The weather was partly cloudy and cool. Temps were in the 60's at best. Kelly Lake lies...
Hi all, Today (11 June), the family and I went to Lake McCumber (4,000 ft and 35 miles east of Redding). In addition to odes, we saw a few butterflies, a ...
Today I briefly visited the Calero Creek wetland restoration site, located west of the intersection of Hwy. 1/Reina del Mar in Pacifica, San Mateo County. At...
From a report by Greg Kareofelas: On Friday, June 11, Andy Rehn and I left Sacramento area 6:00, drove to the Collier's Rest stop on I-5 above Yreka, arriving...
Today, 6/13 I had a single San Francisco or Black-fronted Forktail at the bridge at the end of the trail to Abbott's Lagoon at PRNS in Marin Co. It was perched...
American Emerald today (male) at Kirkwood Meadows on the Amador County side..... John Sterling VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV 26 Palm Ave Woodland, CA 95695 530-668-1985...
Last week I received this message complete with photo attachments. The Blue Dasher rides around on their fingertips. Amazing! Unfortunately I can't send the...
Hello Everyone, Today I was fortunate enough to have Kathy Biggs along on a trip up Pine Flat Road in the northern portion of Sonoma County. It dead ends...
Hi all, Being in the area on business, I had a few minutes this morning to check out the ode life near the town of Mineral in Tehama County. Mineral is six...
I just returned from bird survey work near Manton in the blue oak belt in eastern Tehama County. Lots of odes at one spot on private property including Vivid...
Hi all, I checked out three locations in Shasta County this morning: Logan Lake and Big Springs (both near Old Station) and the Lily Pond Trail in Lassen Park....
Hi gang, I floated the Klamath River from Coon Creek River Access to Blue Nose River Access today. Fair amount of ode action noted. Weather was superb, sunny...
The past two Sundays Al Brewster and have visited the 2 Lakes, oding, lepping, birding etc. Surprising to us are the low species numbers compared to last...
Hi gang, I floated the Klamath River again today. We put in at China Point River Access, six miles east of Happy Camp. We floated into Happy Camp taking out at...
Hi all, Dave and I drove up to Siskiyou County, to our cabin which is located out of McCloud, on the SE side of Mt. Shasta on Friday, passing over Bear Creek...