Hello everyone, Well I hate to keep reporting from the same site, but I have been roaming all over San Diego County due to the Butterflies are out and about...
Over the years, I have been using a Nikon F4 with a 105mm f/2.8 Micro lens that provides a 1:1 ration (true-life size) I always seemed to have a 1.4X...
Today, while butterflying on top of Otay Mountain in San Diego County. I had several Dragonflies flying (without landing-damn it!) They were Skimmer size, the...
Hi all, I was up at Fairfield Osborn preserve on Friday, March 1st, and noticed several darners flying high over head. Since the "darn" things never land, I...
Thanks Becky, Again this year FOP gets the first darners of the year, undoubtedly CA Darners! I'll CC this to CalOdes so you'll get the email address for there...
Hello all, I received this message from Gordon Black in the Bakersfield area on Saturday: While looking for Sandhill Cranes just inside the northern border of ...
Douglas,
With your description I'm guessing they were Pantala flavescens. The apparent habit of never landing also fits the species.
Cheers,
Jim Johnson...
Jim Johnson
jimjohn@...
Mar 5, 2002 11:03 pm
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I posted a help wanted yesterday with an ID on some Odes that I couldn't ID. After looking at the photos, and reading some E-mail from the group members. I am...
Perhaps some of you noted Yahoo had some down time the other day. Below is what we have been informed about the nature of Yahoo problems. This is a quote from...
Hi all, Finally getting caught up on reading my email and checking dates, etc. Yes, that is new flight data for the Pantalas which usually arrive right behind...
Hi all, Wow, we're up to 9 species having been seen on the wing. Maybe someone will be a Beaverpond Baskettail soon! I've just added all your sightings to the...
8 March, 2002 Kern National Wildlife Refuge, Kern County Trudy Pascoe and I, met Gordon Black at the Kern National Wildlife Refuge today. We were hoping to...
Hi, My name is Gordon Black a new member of CalOdes. Resident of Bakersfield and I'm fairly new to the ode world (about a year), but have been bitten by the...
Hi Terri: Kathy asked me to respond to your questions about early Green Darners. Actually, I am not too surprised by Common Green Darner in March in southern ...
ylightfoot@...
Mar 10, 2002 10:08 pm
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... I've had a Green Darner since January 9th in San Diego. Doug Aguillard doug@......
Hi all, I was very pleased today to find a couple of flying Sympetrum and an Ischnura here in Redding, but extremely frustrated that both got away before I...
Bruce Deuel
bdeuel@...
Mar 11, 2002 11:18 pm
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Hello Everyone, I've got two dragonfly slide shows coming up this month. One in the Sacramento area and the other in Sonoma County. If you know of anyone that...
Yahoo Groups will be unavailable from Friday, March 15th, at 9 PM PST until some time on March 17th. Mail sent will not be lost; it will be queued and...
I went looking for butterflies and dragons this afternoon, even though it was cold (approx. 55) with a constant wind blowing. At times I was in the sunshine...
DAVID HOFMANN
DAVID_HOFMANN@...
Mar 14, 2002 2:19 am
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Today, 3-13, a number of Dragonflies were flying along the lower Colorado on the Calif. side between Parker Dam and Earp (bridge to Parker, AZ). Did not...
I'd like to report yet another California Darner from Sonoma County. On March 12, I had nice looks at a perched immature male California Darner at my...
Alan and all, From your personal email: "I got to study it very well - ~ 61mm long (front of head to tips of appendages), simple appendages without forks or...
Hi all, I managed to catch by hand a female Pacific Forktail at Turtle Bay in Redding yesterday (3/13). It was only 50 degrees out and she obviously wasn't...
Bruce Deuel
bdeuel@...
Mar 14, 2002 4:24 pm
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Today (3/16/02), I saw five Pacific Forktails at Helen Putnam Regional Park near Petaluma in Sonoma County. There were three males and two females. Yesterday...
Latest addition: 9 March 2002 Kern County Alison M. Sheehey Photographed at Kern National Wildlife Refuge, California, the first **Bluet (Enallaman)** of the...
Hi all, Today at noon (mid-60s, light winds) I found 2 pairs of Variegated Meadowhawks flying in tandem and ovipositing in a backwater pond off the Sacramento...
Bruce Deuel
bdeuel@...
Mar 19, 2002 10:07 pm
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Hello everyone, While cleaning the pond yesterday I pulled out a Cardinal Meadowhawk nymph. I have scanned it and put it up on my website at ...
In a message dated 02-03-20 18:13:31 EST, you write: << we're both betting it was a Beaverpond Baskettail. >> I thought in your earlier post you thought it was...
ylightfoot@...
Mar 20, 2002 11:18 pm
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Tim and all, Yes, as it flew over I said Darner to my friends, 'cuz that is what I was looking for, but I recall thinking it could have been a Beaverpond ...
