Just received this - she also said LOTS of activity - I'm thinking these may be migrants?? Kathy ... Hi Kathy, Yesterday, Sunday Nov 30,my husband and I saw...
December 1, 2008 Lake Poway, 10:00-12:50, clear, calm, 68-80+ degrees Familiar Bluet Tule Bluet (Approximate 10 to 1 ratio of Enallagma civile to E....
Just wanted to tell everyone that UCDavis Bohart Museum of Entomology is now selling dragonfly T-shirts, based on a scan of the White-belted Ringtail,...
December 2, 2008 Lake Poway, 12:00-2:00pm, foggy most of a.m., hazy sun, high clouds, light breeze, 59-66 degrees. Teneral bluets 17 (no Familiar or Tule...
Hi All, Pierre Deviche and Rich Bailowitz are finding LOTS of late flying dragons and damsels in Arizona. Species they've added new late dates for (all seen...
Lake Poway, counts made along .75 mile of shoreline. Multiple days given to show contrast in numbers linked to temperature, especially for bluets. December...
Hi all, Have been busy walking the Algodones Dunes in eastern Imperial County every day doing bird surveys. A dry year in the dunes to say the least and birds...
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy Hanukah! Thanks you all of you who have made these groups successful. To the next State or County record! Doug...
December 28, 2008 San Diego County Peter Siminski Mountain Palm Springs, Anza - Borrego Desert State Park, Elev. 770'; 10:20-12:15, 50-58F, calm, cloudless. ...
A wet and windy Christmas Day marked the last of four storms to blow through the county in the last two weeks, followed by cold nights, with the minimum...
Hello all, Well the old year is ending! I'll send out all new flight data soon, although for several species, the last flight month is January. Very ...
December 31, 2008 Lake Poway 11:15-1:30, sunny, mild, calm, 65-72 degrees (Photos all) Familiar Bluet 22 including immature and tandem Tule Bluet 1 M Bluet...
Last sighting dates for 2008 - please report if you've seen one later.... *=new late date *American Rubyspot 12/13 California Spreadwing 11/14 Spotted...
I just wanted to wish you all a Happy New Year for 2009, and to thank all of you for making this group so successful. Please keep the flow of information going...
Here are the NEW late flight dates for CA & the greater Southwest that I'm aware of. Date shows state where the species was seen, if only one state, it is the...
Here is info I have for last reports in CA for 2008 - please let me know if you've seen one later... *= new late date Variable Darner 9/27 Paddle-tailed...
With temperatures below freezing every night this time of year, I didn't expect to see any odes, but while running just south of Ridgecrest, I had a Variegated...
January 1, 2009 Lake Poway, 11:00-1:00, sunny, mild, calm, 59-70 degrees Familiar Bluet 25 including immature and tandem Bluet sp. several unidentified...
Kudos to Gary for persisting in these censuses. Gary, if you can do this for a whole year and accompany your data with your weather records (and probably the...
Gary and all, Don't know whether to call this the effect of Global Warming, or Gary Suttle! ;-) Either way, some of these first sightings may actually be new...
January 4, 2008 _Sonoma County_ Schoch family Sebastopol, Sparkes Lane (Kathy Biggs' neighbor's back yard) Variegated Meadowhawk - 1 f, they'd kept her alive...
January 11, 2009 Riverside County Peter Siminski Dos Palmas Oasis and Fish Ponds, Dos Palmas Preserve, Elev. -100'; 9:00-12:00, 64-78F, cirrus, light breeze...
I got a chuckle just now listening to the public radio (NPR) show "Says You!", a radio quiz-game show. They contestants were unable to identify the definition...
Be still my heart! A variegated meadowhawk just came in for a second to check out the pond. It didn't stay but that second, still, it was thinking about ...