Bix Bottom following a cycle ride from home - Friday 24th April 2020

Small Heath Butterfly

Dingy Skipper

Grizzled Skipper.

The dragons are coming!

Keeled Skimmer, Dry Sandford Pit, 4 July 2019 (c) Stephen Burch

Regardless of the current issues affecting mankind, the new dragonfly season should be starting very soon, especially given the current good weather.

With the current lockdown, I appreciate everyone will find it difficult to find them this year, but gardens, especially if you have a pond, can provide sightings of many of the commoner species. Also you may find some on your daily local exercise, especially if this takes you past any streams, rivers, pools or lakes.

We all hope that the lockdown with be lifted, or at least eased, before the end of the season, which usually stretches into November.

For 2020 I am again intending to collate records for dragonflies and damselflies in Oxfordshire, but in an attempt to create wider interest in March I created a new blog for sightings  prior to the current crisis.

This allows comments to be made, and those with Google accounts can post your own entries. Just let me know if you'd like to do this, and I will arrange the rest.

Just to also remind everyone that you can also submit records via iRecord which is the British Dragonfly Society's preferred method now.

Stephen Burch
BDS County Dragonfly Recorder (Oxfordshire, VC23)
http://www.stephenburch.com

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