Hi all, The sun has come back out and so have the odes, including my first Western Pondhawk of the year, a nice male at Turtle Bay West in Redding, Shasta Co. ...
Bruce Deuel
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May 1, 2002 8:46 pm
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I spent yesterday (5/4/02) on Pine Flat Road in Sonoma County. I saw the following: Vivid Dancer - a few Northern Bluet - many at upper pond Western Forktail...
27-29 April, Kern County, CA The Kern Valley Bioregions Festival (27-28 April) was a success again this year but was dampened by high winds and cool...
Hi all! Dave and I spent 10 days in the southern CA desert regions of Kern, San Bernardino and LA Counties. It was so dry and so cool there that we saw many...
Hi all, This is the first day I've been able to check Mary Lake since the weather warmed up, and the odes were pretty active. My estimates: About a dozen...
Bruce Deuel
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May 6, 2002 10:06 pm
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6 May 2002 Sacramento County Tim Manolis Had Flame Skimmer and a darner (Blue-eyed?) in the backyard today. A California Dancer Argia agrioides male netted at...
Hi Kathy, I reported a teneral female Twelve-spotted Skimmer from Turtle Bay in Redding on 4/23, and 2 more from Battle Creek Wildlife Area on 4/24. At least...
Bruce Deuel
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May 7, 2002 6:13 pm
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Hmmm.... Yep, somehow I missed those! Thanks. Kathy...
Beginner's Guide to Dragonflies by Blair Nikula, Jackie Sones. A Stokes Guide. This is another truly pocket sized guide (158 pages, 7 X 4 1/2 inches) covering...
Hi all, I checked Turtle Bay here in Redding, Shasta Co., today at noon. Lots of the same things flying as I saw at Mary Lake on the 6th, plus a couple of...
Bruce Deuel
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May 13, 2002 10:05 pm
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Oops, forgot the 12-15 mixed Western Pondhawks and Blue Dashers. At one point I had one of each sitting within 4 inches of each other. Great photo op, no...
Bruce Deuel
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May 13, 2002 10:21 pm
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Hi all, Dave and I are just back from a wonderful 2 1/2 day trip into Santa Cruz where I gave a presentation on dragonflies and dragonfly ponds to their CNPS...
Hi All A few odes are finally starting to move around the lower Kern River. While kayaking Saturday I observed the following; Flame Skimmer Common Green Darner...
Hi Gordon: When we visited Butterbredt Springs and vicinity a few years back in late May we saw good numbers of Spot-winged Glider, Pantala hymenaea, a common...
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May 15, 2002 4:21 am
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Just go home from the baccalaureate followed by the Senior awards dinner If you have any Pocket BR questions, I will be ready to field them. Either online or...
I shoulda looked at the "To:" line before replying to the previous message. This is my apology to the group for my personal message to Tim Manolis about my...
Hello everyone, Since our dragonfly groups and members seem to be receiving a lot of messages containing this virus, I thought I'd send a link that my son sent...
Hi folks: Bruce Deuel of Red Bluff showed me some great sites for dragonflies in his neck of the woods yesterday. We saw 25 species (plus possible California ...
ylightfoot@...
May 16, 2002 8:14 pm
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Hi everyone, This is a slightly belated note from Sunday, May 12. From 13:00- 13:45 I went for a walk around the southwest end of the Frog Pond Nature Preserve...
Hi everyone, Yesterday (5/12/2002)I was finally able to make it out on a clear and sunny day (13:00 - 13:40). I went to the Frog Pond Nature Preserve in ...
Hey there RJ! Good to hear you're seeing odes there. Have fun when that net arrives. Hoping to sit by my pond and relax this weekend, sort of let the odes come...
Hi folks: Bruce Webb showed me a nice stretch of the creek running through Miners Ravine, just a bit upstream from Sculpture Park, in Roseville, Placer County,...
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May 19, 2002 6:09 am
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Hello, Yesterday (5/18/02), I spent a short time along the lower part of Pine Flat Road in northeastern Sonoma County. I saw the following: Eight-spotted...
Jeff Cole gave me permission to paste this into email to the group. Discouraging! ... I just got back from a little collecting in Kern and Monterey Counties, ...
Hi everyone, Sure hope that most of you are seeing WAY more than David Hofmann and I saw yesterday - report follows: We started out on the NW side of the bay,...
Hi folks: My field experiences on Wednesday, 5/22, were fairly similar to those of Kathy Biggs and David Hofmann, though I did see a few more odes and added a ...
ylightfoot@...
May 23, 2002 8:26 pm
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Well, I wasn't going to post this originally, because nothing was new, but yesterday I checked Mary Lake in Redding, because it was the first sunny day in the...
Bruce Deuel
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May 23, 2002 8:42 pm
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Hi folks: Made a brief midday visit (~noon to 1:30 pm) today (5/24) to the American River Parkway at the Mayhew Drain, Sacramento County (this is on the south ...
ylightfoot@...
May 24, 2002 10:36 pm
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Hi Folks, A quiet day in Lafayette (Contra Costa Co.) left me some time to look for Odes. In about 30 yards of suburban stream (partially cemented in with...
Today (5/25/02), Kathy and Dave Biggs, Ron Robertson, and I hiked into The Cedars in Sonoma County (north of Cazadero) and saw the following species. At ponds...
