Hi all, The family and I were in Mount Shasta (city), yesterday, and decided to have lunch at Castle Lake. The day was sunny and breezy and the lake was ...
It was easier to identify dragonflies when I only had two options, as I had in California Insects.... Now I'm not so sure this is a "dusty skimmer" at all. The...
Hi all, I was filing water buckets out of Brown's Creek. Brown's Creek is a small mountain creek barely flowing this time of year. It is located about 13 miles...
Kim Kreitinger and I were hiking in Castle Rock State Park in Santa Cruz County yesterday, 7/31/04, and watched a female Pacific Spiketail oviposit in a small...
John, Your link is not working. You can always view Kathy's website or Ray Brun's or mine for help on ID's. I highly recommend Kathy's books and Tim Manolis's ...
Hi all, Yesterday, I went to a small pond near Lake McCumber, Shasta County. The water level had dropped since I was there last and the ode numbers as well....
Hi everyone, Yesterday I begged Dave to take us out of this doom and gloom fog that has plagued us for more than a week. Being the great guy that he is, he not...
Hello map-makers and excel chart keepers, 6 years into this project, and still plenty to discover. Here are the new county records, mostly from July 04. July...
Hellow, I was wondering if someone could identify the following odes. I think the blue one might be P. longipennis and # 18 might be Sympetrum illotum but I...
Attachments are no allowed on CalOdes, due to the threat of viruses being spread. If you'd like to post pics on the CalOdes website, then go to the photo...
Hi everyone, Yesterday David Hofmann and I decided to escape the doom and gloom fog that is still plaguing us here in Sonoma Co. We figured that if we drove ...
Hi all, It's wonderful to see so many folks adding photo folders. I have a request. If you can name the pix. with the species name, that is great. If you need...
Hey Oders, I also had the fortune of seeing a female P. Spiketail ovipositing, just like Eric described, at Soberanes Creek (Canyon) while hiking with some...
Hi all, After work today, I chased some odes along Bear Creek at the Hwy 44 bridge approx. 15 miles east of Redding. Except for the Sooty Dancers, which there...
Rod Miller and myself visited two sites to look for odes. Although there were several Aeshna and Enallagma of unknown species present, I've only included...
Hi Chris, Rod and everyone, Sounds like a great outing. I hope to get there some day myself! A few questions: ... Believe it or not, this is a species that we...
My wife and I returned Saturday from a two-week trip to Peru, during which we saw surprisingly few odes (we were looking for birds). But the trip began with...
CalOdes group, Date: August 3, 2004 Location: Monte Bello OSP, Santa Clara County pond accessed from gate MB05, Page Mill Rd Tule Bluet 2 Tule/Arroyo Bluet 30 ...
Hi friends, I'm in San Francisco today and it looks like the sun will be shining later. Can someone give me an idea of where I can go to attempt photographs of...
Jose and all, Thanks for posting the pix on the CalOdes site and adding the date and place names. Your Neon Skimmer photo is a new early flight date for CA ...
Hi all, I floated the Klamath River today. It was unseasonably cool, high 60's and overcast most of day. It started clearing in late afternoon. Not many odes...
I have just added pictures of a Red Saddlebags taken at Skyline Ridge OSP, San Mateo County. This is apparently the first record for this county. The pictures...
On August 6, David and I went on a search for Odes along the Del Purto Canyon Road. We started at Interstate 5 and drove to the 18 mile marker. There was water...
Yesterday I found an Arroyo Bluet (E. praevarum) at Yosemite Marsh in McLaren Park, San Francisco County. This is apparently a new species for the county. I...
I took pictures of three new (to me) critters at Mt. Tam's Lily Lake (which is really a pond) last weekend and was hoping for some help in identifying them, if...
Thanks to everyone for such quick and expert responses. --John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other...
Hi John, I would say Pacific Forktail Pacific Forktail and Pacific Forktail. The pigmentation at the tip of the abdomen is very different on Swift Forktail and...
