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Freshwater
Habitats 2006 - 2008
Southern
Migrant Hawker, Aeshna affinis
Photograph
by
Ray Hamblett
(Lancing Nature Gallery)
on
the flickr
Sussex
Wildlife Gallery
8 May
2008
Yellow
Flag Iris was seen in the Annington
Sewer (next to the Saltings Field, Botolphs).
26
April 2008
At
the Saltings Field stream (Annington Sewer
just
north-east of Botolphs) small Whirligig
Beetles gyrated on the surface of the
stream by the Oak Tree.
There were probably over a hundred of them on the surface of the water.
21
August 2006
Moorhens
scampered
over the water in the stream by the River Adur.
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At
the Saltings Field stream (just north-east of Botolphs)
the Water Dropwort
had been cleared from the stream and several hundred small Whirligig
Beetles gyrated on the surface of the
stream by the Oak Tree.
Adur
Levels
2 August
2006
A
large female Southern Hawker
buzzed me by the stream at the northern edge of the Saltings Field near
Botolphs.
This was the first of these spectacular insects I had seen for over a year.
Two Ruddy Darters
and a handful of Blue-tailed
Damselflies were also seen.
14
July 2006
I
thought I would like to see some dragonflies
myself, but blown along by a Fresh Breeze
(Force 5) in 22.7
ºC sunshine, the best I could manage
was a Broad-bodied Chaser
east of Botolphs (on the Cyclepath north of
the South Downs Way Bridge over the Adur) and a dozen Blue-tailed
Damselflies on the same drainage ditch
100 metres further north. The observation of the damselflies rather inferred
that the larger predatory dragonflies were not on patrol.
13 July 2006
Water Dropwort
A splendid Southern Migrant Hawker, Aeshna affinis, and both male and female Ruddy Darters were captured on camera. They were discovered on the Adur Levels about a half mile north of the A27 Flyover. The dragonflies were seen in the narrow area of the drainage ditches and pastures between the cyclepath and the River Adur. (TQ 202 075). (This is very close to where I visited the day before.) The Southern Migrant Hawker is a rare immigrant dragonfly and the last one was discovered in Kent in 1952.
Identification by David Appleton Report with Images
Adur Dragonflies 2006
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May 2006
Azure
Damselflies, Coenagrion puella, seen
for the first time this year, were frequently seen on the Spring
Dyke and they appear to have just emerged from the adjacent Miller's
Stream.
10
May 2006
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Six
pairs of Large Red-tailed Damselflies were
mating on the surface vegetation
the stream by the Oak
tree, north of Botolphs.
Adur
Damsels & Dragonflies 2006
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Miller's Stream on 1 February 2006
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