Hi all, Got a new camera and am finally figuring out how to use it. Here are some sample shots from this weekend (the ode shots are at the bottom half of the...
Reminder from the Calendar of CalOdes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CalOdes/cal Central Valley Dragonflies Monday May 8, 2006 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm (This event...
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Hi folks: The weather was so summery today and has been nice enough for the past week that it seemed reasonable to expect a double-digit odonate list from...
Hi all, Spent about an hour at Battle Creek Wildlife Area headquarters today. Managed to capture the "Widow Skimmer" from two days ago, which actually may be a...
HI, Ray. I would go with a Widow x Eight-spotted, as it really seems intermediate between the two species. It's great that you were able to find it again and...
I checked the Sindicich and Maricich Lagoons at Briones Regional Park this afternoon, unfortunately missing the warm weather of the past two days. Winds were...
Hi all, I visited the Redding Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant today, looking for shorebirds, and saw numerous (at least 25) Wandering Gliders, and several...
My apologies, I misspoke in my last post, the gliders I saw today at the Redding Treatment Plant were Spot-winged, not Wandering. Cheers, Bruce Deuel Redding...
Hi all, It's wonderful to FINALLY be hearing about ode sightings! We've just gotten home from our McCloud home, and I'm pretty jazzed: We stopped at a spot...
There seems to be a glitch in the CalOdes message system: when I replied to Bruce Deuel's message about an error in his report about the Gliders, saying that...
So weird! My resend of Bruce's message made it to my mailbox, but my own report didn't! I'll repost it here: Hi all, It's wonderful to FINALLY be hearing about...
Hi all, It's wonderful to FINALLY be hearing about ode sightings! We've just gotten home from our McCloud home, and I'm pretty jazzed: We stopped at a spot...
Hi Nicole and all, Yes, the life of a dragonfly is such that the wings need to dry out after it finally gets them pumped up and spread. Your Flame Skimmer ...
Hi all, I had the pleasure to check out Hudson Road along the Shasta River for an upcoming river cleanup event. I saw no odes. Sadly, I did find lots of trash....
Reminder from the Calendar of CalOdes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CalOdes/cal MARIN COUNTY OPEN SPACE DISTRICT NATURALIST OUTINGS Saturday May 13, 2006 10:00...
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May 4, 2005 Santa Clara County John Hall, David Edwards Stevens Creek County Park/ The Older Fremont OSP Vivid Dancer 4 California Darner 1 Flame Skimmer 1 ...
Backyard pond EL cajon, San Diego COunty 92019 female flameskimmer Details found perched and then floating in water. I put her in a solitary place within...
I had a good lesson in the life of a dragonfly. Nothing like lab in the field or my backyard. I was concerned over an insect! Ok, i went out to my pond and...
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This is a really really weird ode day here at our house in Sebastopol: Early this morning I went out and was watering a few plants when suddenly I was aware of...
Yesterday I saw my first dragonfly of the season at Big Basin Redwoods State Park: a COMMON GREEN DARNER was darting over the meadow on the Redwood Loop. ...
Hi all, I was messing around the backyard pond yesterday afternoon. Temps were in the low 80's and ode activity has started to pick up. I noticed a teneral...
Hi all, Yesterday, after giving a program in Sun City in Placer County (just north of Sacramento a bit), Tom Roach took Dave and I and Tim Manolis to Ferrari...
With Bruce's Spot-winged Gliders, our Pacific Spiketail (which was new early flight data by a week!), and then the Emma's Dancers, Black Saddlebags, Red-veined...
Hi folks, Yesterday I took a midday walk around Phoenix Lake in Marin County. Highlights included Beaverpond Baskettails (at least 25), one Pacific Clubtail,...
Sorry to bother everyone with this, but I'm trying to track down Steve Summers. If you're on the list, or if anyone has an e-mail address for him, please let...
Hi all, I was visiting the Paynes Creek Wetlands, a BLM property northeast of Red Bluff, mostly birding, but noticing any odes, and saw the following: Vivid...
Hi all, Dave and I had hoped to drive up Pine Flat Rd. to check it out for our up coming field trip there, but road construction blocked our way only 5 miles...
