Sunday, 5 of September of 2010

Dragonflies of East Yorkshire

DRAGONFLIES OF EAST YORKSHIRE

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Work is well advanced on a publication detailing the Status and Distribution of Dragonflies in East Yorkshire between 2000 and 2010. The plan is to publish in January 2011, if you would like to ensure that your 2010 records are included, then these need to be submitted by the end of Novemeber 2010.

I would like to appeal for photographs of the following scarce or difficult to photograph species:-

Red-eyed Damselfly – Male and female.

Small Red-eyed Damselfly – Female.

Common Hawker – Female.

Southern Hawker – Female.

Brown Hawker – Male and Female.

Emperor Dragonfly – Male.

Black-tailed Skimmer – Male and Female.

Common Darter – Female.

As this is a not for profit publication, I won’t be able to offer any payment for any photographs used in the book. All photographs used will be fully acknowledged to the photographer.

This publications is to be printed to a high quality, and will be made available to order on-line, via a print on demand publisher.

This will be a landscape publication, 10×8 inches, 25×20 centimetres, to maximise the use of the distribution mapping, full colour through-out, containing 140+ pages.

All observers who have submitted records during the period covered by the book will be acknowledged in the publication.

Features

The Dragonflies of East Yorkshire brings together the currently known status and distribution of breeding dragonflies and damselflies in the County.

Details of how the differing natural areas of the County influence habitat and the species which occur there.

Full colour throughout, with photographs of all species along with text detailing flight periods, habitat, distribution, breeding status, behaviour and trends.

Mapping illustrates the distribution and abundance of species between the years 2000 and 2010, along with flight period charts.

Separate mapping illustrate how species have increased their range since 2000, overlaid with key breeding data.

Site guide to ten easily accessible locations, enabling observers to see all the breeding species within the County.

Summary of a further six species of scarce migrants, vagrants and historical records.

Low resolution page layouts

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02/09/2010 Hatfield Moor

Emerald Damselfly, Blue-tailed Damselfly, Common Blue Damselfly, 4 Common Hawker, 3 Migrant Hawker, 7 Southern Hawker, 6 Brown Hawker, 60 Common Darter and 25 Ruddy Darter.

Pete Hinks


01/09/2010 Broomfleet

2 Emerald Damselfly, 1 Blue-tailed Damselfly, 12 Common Blue Damselfly, 42 Migrant Hawker, 7 Brown Hawker, 1 Black-tailed Skimmer and 42 Common Darter.

Paul Ashton

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Male Migrant Hawker


01/09/2010 Market Weighton

1 Southern Hawker.

Paul Ashton


01/09/2010 Saltmarshe Delph

1 Southern Hawker and 1 Ruddy Darter.

Paul Adams


30/08/2010 Walton Colliery Nature Park

2 Emerald Damselfly, 1 Blue-tailed Damselfly, 2 Azure Damselfly, 1 Common Hawker, 3 Migrant Hawker and 2 Brown Hawker.

Mick Hemingway


30/08/2010 Pugneys Country Park

10 Common Blue Damselfly, 3 Migrant Hawker, 4 Brown Hawker and 3 Common Darter.

Mick Hemingway

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Male Migrant Hawker

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Copulating pair of Common Blue Damselfly


30/08/2010 Skelton Broad Lane

1 Blue-tailed Damselfly, 1 Common Hawker, 3 Migrant Hawker, 1 Brown Hawker and 5 Common Darter.

Paul Adams


29/08/2010 Houghton Moor

2 Common Hawker, 59 Migrant Hawker, 4 Southern Hawker, 20 Common Darter and 6 Ruddy Darter.

Martin Hodges


28/08/2010 Tophill Low

Common Blue Damselfly, Migrant Hawker, Southern Hawker and Common Darter.

Martin Hodges and Doug Fairweather