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Season Start at Sandhouse

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Just a brief diary note to say that, very nearly two weeks after Duck End NR (apparently always Bedfordshire’s first), I today found six freshly emerged Large Red Damsels (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) at my local Sandhouse Lane NR. My first encounter…

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My First of 2014

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Now back and settled after returning from a wet week in the Lake District, where the start of the Odo season in Bedfordshire eluded me, today I set out on my own first sorties. My initial target was to check…

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Bedfordshire Kick-off, 2014

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Just a quickie to note that today a couple of friends from the BNHS [Bedfordshire Natural History Society] snagged photographic evidence that our year’s first Large Red Damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) had emerged at Duck End NR near Maulden. And there…

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Spain, Xmas 2013

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My first reasonably serious attempt at finding dragonflies in Spain was in August this year, when we drove to Jalón to help a friend clebrate his birthday in early August and to take in something of the summer heat and…

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Norfolk, Sep 2013

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Having fallen in love with Norfolk once again after an absence of more than 20 years, and my boss having run off back to Italy for a third week this year, this time in the company of her mother, I…

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Italy, Sep 2013

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A trip to Italy for the first half of September was primarily a walking holiday. However, there were a few days off to get a dose of culture in various cities. I don’t really do city culture but, looking at…

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Spain, Aug 2013

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Other than a worrying warning light the shape of which resembled our engine block, we completed our 1200mls/1900kms road journey from Calais, over the Pyrenees and on to Jalón (near Calpe on the Costa Blanca) smoothly. It has to be…

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Marais Poitevin, Aug 2013

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August 2013 broke our mould in several respects. Firstly, we were straying away from home during the height of rugrat season. Secondly, we would be experiencing the height of summer in Spain, our ultimate destination, for the very first time.…

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Posted in 2013, France, Trip reports

Norfolk, Jun 2013

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Swiftly on the heels of our trip to Shropshire in search of the White-faced Darters (Leucorrhinia dubia), came a trip to Norfolk in search of my second missing localized celebrity, the Norfolk Hawker/Green-eyed Hawker (Aeshna isoceles). The Norfolk Broads is…

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Shropshire, Jun 2013

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My desire to get the cataract in my right eye fixed enforced a stay in the UK during May and June, so we had to forego a planned trip to France hunting orchids and Odos. Making the most of our…

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Posted in 2013, Trip reports, UK
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