After years of lusting after access to the San Lorenzo River east of King City, Rita and I were finally able to arrange permission to enter a private ranch on...
June 26, 2007 Santa Clara County John Hall, David Edwards Monte Bello OSP Seep Area Vivid Dancer 40 Pacific Forktail 1 Mosaic Darner,sp 2 Flame Skimmer 1...
Dan Singer and I visited East Pinnacles NM yesterday, June 30. We started at the reservoir and there were many odonates there. We went around almost the entire...
July 1, 2007 Riverside County Peter Siminski Blythe area: Mayflower County Park (MCP) along the Colorado River primarily the park lagoon, and then the Palo...
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Jul 2, 2007 2:24 am
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This is almost a month afterwards, but should anyone care to view photos from Modoc County taken during a visit in early June, they are now at ...
July 8, 2007 Riverside County Peter Siminski CDFG San Jacinto Wildlife Area; 8:30a.m. - 12noon, sunny, 85 - 95 degrees, calm to light wind. Tule Bluet,...
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Jul 9, 2007 12:12 am
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Enroute to northeastern California, Rita and I drove through Sacramento going and coming home. We stopped enroute to look for odes and to break up the drive. 4...
I retraced much of my early June trip to Modoc & Lassen counties with Rita, and we did well in refinding much of what she had previously missed. We added a few...
Two small corrections to this report and the similar report from June: 1) I failed to include reference to Sooty Dancer (2 females; photo'd) at Silver Lake LAS...
Hi all, The thought just struck me today that while almost every female Western Forktail I see is heavily pruinose, I don't ever recall seeing a mating pair...
Folks, I'm pretty new to this list and a perennial beginner with regard to odes. I've recently made an effort to learn the local butterflies, largely as a ...
Hi, Ray. You're absolutely right, although I think I do have a photo of a pair with a quite pruinose female, and I have certainly seen them mating. The orange...
After two visits to Blue Lake, Lassen Co., this summer, I've put together a web page on this locale at http://montereybay.com/creagrus/CA-LAS-BlueLake.html ...
Reminder from: CalOdes Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CalOdes/cal Dragonfly Society of the Americas Annual Meeting/Field Trip Friday July 27, 2007 ...
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Jul 13, 2007 6:59 am
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Greetings ode folks, I spent yesterday hiking the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) out of the Grider Creek Campground. He had to relocate a Sierra Club work group ...
As of now, half of all known CA species have been seen - 96 species have been reported! That's more species seen in many years! Wow! Have just returned from 2...
A page on "Modoc Meadowhawk Mania," illustrating a visit to Modoc NWR on 6 July, is a little more timely than my last photo-laden page. It attempts to show a...
Thanks, Don. That’s a nice collection of images. I would have to call the pallipes/madidum (striped/red-veined) female at the bottom of the page a pallipes...
It is a crummy weather weekend on the coast, so I've put together my tribute to Ash Creek Campground, Lassen Co., aka "Gomphid City," for anyone who might care...
Although I'm the one who called it a Red-veined, I now agree with Jim (and Tim) that it is a Striped. This necessitated a half hour workshop with specimens to...
July 15, 2007 Riverside County Peter Siminski Dos Palmas Preserve, Dos Palmas Oasis and San Andres Oasis; 7:00-11:30, sunny, 85-104 degrees, calm. Blue-ringed...
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Jul 15, 2007 11:00 pm
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Dan Singer and I birded, lepped and oded the San Mateo OSPs on Saturday. Not a lot of fascinating ode activity, though we didn't try all that hard for odes. We...
*Record #7641**/ Zoniagrion exclamationis/ (Selys) *(Exclamation Damsel) *California: *Santa Barbara Co. San Antonio creek, one mile inland from the mouth,...
Hello. Just when I felt like I'd gotten a handle on the critters I often see here in the Bay Area, I leave town and am totally stumped. I'm trying to find out...
Hi John, That's in my neck of the woods. I live just 20 minutes from Manzanita Lake. What you have there appear to be a young male Variegated Meadowhawk...
Thanks for the info, everyone. I'd thought about Variegated Meadowhawk but didn't realize eye color changed with age. The Whiteface is a completely new one to...
Can anyone direct me to a good location for Black Petaltail and Olive Clubtail? Thanks, John John Sterling 26 Palm Ave Woodland, CA 95695 530-908-3836 (cell) ...
Reminder from: CalOdes Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CalOdes/cal Dragonfly Society of the Americas Annual Meeting/Field Trip Friday July 27, 2007 ...
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Jul 23, 2007 6:58 am
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I have a blue form of the sooty dancer from Saturday. http://sdbirds.basiclink.com/sooty_dancer.htm and two Gray Sanddragons in a wheel, down towards the...
