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Virginia, Nov 2024

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This was decidedly not a targeted odonata trip but mainly a tourist trip to catch up with an old friend not seen in many years. I was located permanently in Richmond, Virginia making mostly local forays as and when I…

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Posted in 2024, Trip reports, USA

The Netherlands, May 2024 – The Whitefaces Tour

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The original driving force behind this trip was finally to see my one missing UK species, Coenagrion lunulatum (Crescent Bluet/Irish Damselfly). I had made two attempts to find it at the Lac de l’Estivadoux in the Auvergne, France but had…

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Posted in 2024, Netherlands, Trip reports

Australia, Jan-Feb 2024

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Another trip to Australia but this was mainly a tourist trip, first visiting relatives in Brisbane and then in Stanley, Victoria via Melbourne, with a 10-day motorhome trip through the outback in between. So, my hunting of odonata was less…

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Posted in 2024, Australia, Trip reports

Dragons Down Under

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At the BDS AGM on 18th November held at Nottingham Trent University, I did a short presentation [25 minutes] summarizing highlights of a few trips hunting odonata in Australia. Happily [for me, anyway], the BDS recorded all the presentations so,…

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Posted in Articles, Australia, Trip reports

Australia, Dec 2022 [FNQ 2022]

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In late 2019, just before Covid-19 ruined the world, I went on a 3-week intensive dragonfly hunting trip with Phil Benstead centred around Brisbane. The intention had been to go south into some of the State Parks of New South…

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Posted in 2022, Australia, Trip reports

France, Sep 2022

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We have not returned to France for the last four years, in some ways because of our house in Spain, but largely also because of Covid-19 more recently. September 2022 provided our opportunity to cross the Channel again and renew…

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Posted in 2022, France, Trip reports

The Netherlands, Aug 2022

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My normal pathological avoidance of the school holidays throughout late July and August, coupled with the fact that we’ve tended to visit the southwest of France as opposed to the northeast, have reduced my chances of seeing the Moustached Darter/Vagrant…

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Posted in 2022, Holland, Netherlands, Trip reports

Botswana & Zambia, July 2022

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For the first two weeks of July, with travel supposedly opening up after two years of Covid-19 lockdowns,  we lashed out on a tented camping safari to Botswana, including a side trip into Zambia to visit the stunning Victoria Falls.…

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Posted in 2022, Botswana, Trip reports, Zambia

Australia, Nov-Dec 2019

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For some time I have been considering joining an organized dragonfly hunting tour. In November 2018 I was disappointed not to be able to take part in a tour of Western Australia organized by Phil Benstead of Odonatours [2022 update…

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Posted in 2019, Australia, Trip reports

France, July 2019

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This wasn’t actually a trip in its own right but was a single week tacked onto the end of our trip around Germany. Having gone out to Germany through Belgium and experienced a dreadful campsite, we were anxious to avoid…

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Posted in 2019, France, Trip reports
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