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2010 Dragonfly and Damselfly Records for Oxfordshire

All entries will be acknowledged. Please send any interesting sightings to me at stephen_burchemail at yahoo.co.uk (change "at" for "@"), and I will endeavour to enter below as soon as possible. Minimum required details are species, site and observer. If the species is localised, scarce or rare in Oxforshire, if possible please provide some details to confirm the identification (such as a photo, previous experience of the species etc).

For those with websites, I will add a link if requested. If you'd like to send a photo to illustrate your sighting on this page, I'd be happy to add it below.

See also my site guide to the dragonflies and damselflies of Oxfordshire, and also an illustrated list of all the dragonflies and damselflies recorded in Oxfordshire, with comments on abundance and distribution.

Date	Species	Site and details	Observer
19 Nov	Common Darter (1). Is this the latest dragonfly record ever in Oxfordshire?	Milton Park	Stephen Burch
16 Oct	5+ Common Darters, seen while on the Yellowlegs quest	Port Meadow	Stephen Burch
10 Oct	One Migrant Hawker and 30+ Common Darters	Otmoor	David Hastings
18 Sept	One Southern Hawker	Parsonage Moor	David Hastings
18 Sept	One Common Darter and one Southern Hawker	Dry Sandford Pit	David Hastings
18 Sept	Migrant Hawker 5+, Black-tailed Skimmer still, Common Darter and Common Blue Damsel	Shellingford Pit	Stephen Burch
18 Sept	1 Brown Hawker and loads of Common Darter	Otmoor	Stephen Burch
10 Sept	1 Brown Hawker	Milton Park	Stephen Burch
7 Sept	1 Common Darter	Milton Park	Stephen Burch
5 Sept	Migrant Hawker	Radley Lakes	Mike Flemming
28 August	1 Ruddy Darter, 1 Common Darter and 1 (late) Southern Damselfly	Dry Sandford Pit	David Hastings
21 August	Common Darter (many), Black-tailed Skimmer still, and possible S R E Damelfly. Again no hawkers	Shellingford Pit	Stephen Burch
21 August	Brown Hawker - just 1 in poor conditions	Shrike Meadow, Farmoor	Stephen Burch
15 August	Lots of Common and Ruddy Darters (many in cop), four Brown Hawkers, two Southern Hawkers, six Emerald Damselflies and a single female Azure Damselfly	Otmoor	David Hastings
15 August	4 Brown Hawkers.	Between Radcot and Rushey Locks on River Thames	Stephen Burch
7 August	Numerous Small Red Eyed Damselflies (10+), also Red-eyed Damselfly, Common blue Damselfly, Common Darter and Black-tailed Skimmer still. No sign of any hawkers.	Shellingford Pit	Stephen Burch
7 August	1-2 Brown Hawkers and probable Migrant Hawker	River Thames at Farmoor	Stephen Burch
5 August	At least 3 male Small red Eyed Damselflies in the north west corner of Bullfield lake with quite a few Red Eyed Damsels for comparison! Also Common blue Damsel, Blue tailed Damsel, Common Darter and Ruddy Darter.	Radley Lakes	Wayne Bull
29 July	1 male Small Red Eyed Damselfly resting on ivy leaved duckweed on the strip of water at southern end of Thrupp Lake, also Red eyed Damselfly, Common blue Damselfly, Blue tailed Damselfly, Brown Hawker, Black tailed Skimmer and Ruddy Darter.	Radley Lakes	Wayne Bull
26 July	Common Darter, Ruddy Darter, Brown Hawker, Southern Hawker and Migrant Hawker.	Whitecross Green Wood	David Hastings
26 July	Brown Hawker, Common Darter and Ruddy Darter.	Otmoor	David Hastings
19 July	One Keeled Skimmer and two Southern Hawkers	Dry Sandford Pit	David Hastings
12 July	Southern Hawker 1	Milton Park	Stephen Burch
Southern Damselfly © Wayne Bull
12 July	Common blue Damselfly, 6+ Small Red Damselfly, 1 male Southern Damselfly, 4 male Keeled Skimmer, 2 Emperor Dragonfly and 1 Teneral Common Darter.	Cothill Fen/Parsonage Moor	Wayne Bull
12 July	6+ Southern Damselflies. Also had my first Southern Hawker of the year!	Dry Sandford Pit	Wayne Bull
Small Red Damselfly © David Hastings
11 July	One Emperor, one Southern Hawker, several Brown Hawkers and lots of Common Darters.	Bernwood Forest	David Hastings
10 July	Small Red Damselfly (a few males; one pair in cop). Emperor (2), Brown Hawker (3), at least five male Keeled Skimmers, four or five females, one pair in copulation, one female ovipositing, and Azure Damselfly (10)	Cothill Fen	David Hastings
9 July	1 Brown Hawker and 1 Black Tailed Skimmer.	Milton Park	Stephen Burch
Ruddy Darter © Wayne Bull
8 July	3 male SMALL RED EYED DAMSELFLIES today sitting on water weed on a strip of water between the northern end of Bullfield Lake and the southern end of Thrupp Lake. Another first for the site! Red eyed Damsels were also in the same area. Also Common blue Damsel, Azure Damsel, Blue tailed Damsel, Brown Hawker, Emperor Dragonfly, Four spotted Chaser, Black tailed Skimmer,Common Darter and Ruddy Darter.	Radley Lakes	Wayne Bull
6 July	1 Club-tailed Dragonfly	River Thames at Iffley	Wayne Bull
Common Emerald Damselfly © David Hastings
4 July	Many Common Darters and a few Ruddy Darters. Quite a few Azure Damselflies, some Blue-tailed Damselflies, a couple of Common Emerald Damselflies and a couple of Brown Hawkers.	Otmoor	David Hastings
Ruddy Darter © David Hastings
4 July	Hundreds of teneral Common Darters. Also four Emperors, three Brown Hawkers and a Common Blue Damselfly.	Whitecross Green Wood	David Hastings
3 July	5+ Small Red-eyed Damselfly. Also 1 Four-spotted Chaser, several Black-tailed Skimmers and many Common blue Damselflies.	Shellingford Pit	Stephen Burch
28 June	1 Downy Emerald still on the western end of Bullfield Lake, also Banded Demoiselle, Common Blue Damsel, Blue tailed Damsel, Red Eyed Damsel, 5 Brown Hawker, 8+ Emperor Dragonfly inc 3 ovipositing females, Four Spotted Chasers, Black tailed Skimmers and Common Darters.	Radley Lakes	Wayne Bull
25 June	One Brown Hawker and several Blue-Tailed Damselflies	Otmoor	Rien De Keyser
Small-red Dameselflies © Wayne Bull
24 June	3 male Variable Damsels at Cothill, also Common Blue Damsels, Large Red Damsels, 1 male Small Red Damsel, Keeled Skimmers and Four Spotted Chasers there. At Parsonage Moor Ihad,1 male Southern Damsel, 10+ Small Red Damsel (they seem to have moved more over to the Parsonage side), Large Red Damsels, Brown Hawker, Four Spotted Chasers, Keeled Skimmer.	Cothill Fen/Parsonage Moor	Wayne Bull
22 June	Downy Emerald (1 male)	Malt Pit field GR SP58874 14214, Otmoor RSPB	David Wilding
22 June	Azure (many), Blue-tailed (10), Common Blue (5) and Red-eyed (5) Damselflies, at least three Emperors, several Four-spotted Chasers and a couple of Black-tailed Skimmers	Bullfield Lake at Radley.	David Hastings
21 June	Small numbers of Azure, Large Red and Southern Damselflies	Dry Sandford Pit	David Hastings
21 June	2 male Downy Emeralds still on Bullfield lake. One was patrolling the middle and eastern end of the lake and the other was seen on the western end. The male Hairy Dragonfly was also still present, patrolling the reedy area at the south end of the scrape which is on the western side of the pits. 5 Emperor including 2 ovipositing females, 1 Brown Hawker,1 Club-tailed Dragonfly, Four spotted chasers including a very nice "praenubila", Black tailed skimmers and the usual damsels including 1000's of Common Blue Damsels over the lakes	Radley Lakes	Wayne Bull
21 June	Four spotted Chaser, Black-tailed Skimmer and many blue damselflies	Dorchester Lakes	Tom Stevenson
White-legged Dameselfly © Tom Stevenson
20 June	Azure Damselflies (100+), as well as some Common Blue Damselflies (20) and Banded Demosoiselles (25)	Chimney Meadow	David Hastings
18 June	White-legged Damselfly and a few Banded Demoiselles.	Milbrook Mead nature Reserve in Benson	Tom Stevenson
17 June	2 DOWNY EMERALD chasing each other at the eastern end of Bullfield Lake(next to Thrupp Lake). Also a male HAIRY DRAGONFLY over the scrape area on the western side of the pits. Both probably firsts for the site. Also Banded Demoiselle, Azure Damselfly,Common Blue Damselfly, Blue tailed Damselfly inc a few"rufescens", Red eyed Damselfly, 2 Brown Hawker,4 Emperor Dragonfly,1 Club-tailed Dragonfly, Four spotted chasers, Black tailed Skimmers,and 1 Teneral Common Darter.	Radley Lakes	Wayne Bull
Black-tailed Skimmer © John Lloyd
13 June	Broad bodied Chasers - males and females mating, possible Club-tailed Dragonfly ( egg laying and mating ) and Damselflies.	Wroxton Abbey main lake ( Nr Banbury )	John Lloyd
13 June	Several immature male Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) feeding in trees alongside main ride	Waterperry Wood	Mike Flemming
13 June	Azure Damselfly - 100+, Blue-tailed Damselfly - 20+, Large Red Damselfly - 1, Banded Demoiselle - 1, Four-spotted Chaser - 7 or 8 (1 of the form praenubila), Common Darter - 2, Brown Hawker - 3.	Otmoor	David Hastings
12 June	Several male Black-tailed skimmer (Orthetrum cancellatum) and one female Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo)	Whitecross Green Wood	Mike Flemming
12 June	Two male Keeled Skimmers, one female Broad-bodied Chaser, half a dozen Large Red Damselflies and one male Banded Demoiselle.	Dry Sandford Pit	David Hastings
12 June	50 Common Blue Damselflies.	Farmoor	David Hastings
6 June	Many Common Blue and Azure damselflies. A few Blue-tailed and Large Red Damselflies, and Banded Demoiselles. One Four-spotted Chaser.	Pinkhill	David Hastings
5 June	Active Banded Demoiselles.	River Thame at Shabbington	Lyn Ebbs
5 June	1 Beautiful Demoiselle and one Black-Tailed Skimmer	Stanton St John	Lyn Ebbs
5 June	1 male Southern Damselfly (confirmed from photo), and possibly a female. Also 3 male Large Red Damselflies.	Dry Sandford Pit	David Hastings
3 June	Several Common Blue and Large Red Damsels and a few Blue Tailed Damsels and Four Spotted Chasers at Cothill. 1 male Variable Damselfly and female Keeled Skimmer at Parsonage Moor.	Cothill/Parsonage Moor NNR	Wayne Bull
3 June	Several Southern Damsels on the wing also lots of Large Red Damsel, a few Azures, Four Spotted Chaser and Broad Bodied Chaser.	Dry Sandford Pit	Wayne Bull
30 May	1 Blue-tailed, 1 Common and 2 Large Red Damselflies	Dry Sandford Pit	David Hastings
27 May	Broad-bodied Chaser (1)	Standlake Common pit 60 around small pool at left side of small hide	Tony Edwards
23 May	5 newly-emerged Club-tailed Dragonflies and some Banded Demoiselles.	River Thames at Goring (railway bridge).	David Hastings
23 May	Downy Emerald (1), Hairy Dragonfly (a few)	Otmoor	Wayne Bull
22 May	Red-eyed Damselfly (1)	Witney Lake (north shore)	Tony Edwards
21 May	One Hairy Hawker (along the track from the car park to the bridle way), several Four-spotted Chasers, numerous Azure and Common Blue Damselflies, some Large Red Damselflies and one teneral Blue-tailed Damselfly	Otmoor	David Hastings
15 May	Club tailed Dragonfly. Two emerging and 10 exuviae cases on the concrete	Railway bridge south of Goring.	Neil Lambert
15 May	Large Red Damselfly (about 6 terneral)	Dry Sandford Pit	David Hastings
15 May	Downy Emerald (1), Four-spotted Chaser and terneral damselflies	Otmoor RSPB. The Downy Emerald was on the main track just past the new hide, as was the Chaser.	Stephen Burch
28 April	Large Red Damselfly (very probable)	River Thames at Farmoor	Tony Edwards
28 April	Hairy Dragonfly	Otmoor - bridleway	David Hastings