[Odonata-l] new books/website

[Kathy &/or Dave Biggs]

Hello all,

Please pardon any cross-posting.

I want to announce two forthcoming western USA dragonfly guides:

1. A major revision of my very first book, "Common Dragonflies of 
California, A Beginner's Pocket Guide."
I've been sold out of the 2nd printing of this book for several years now.
The new book covers more species (100) and has all new photos and 
updated flight data, etc.
It should be available May 1st. It includes damselflies and features 
photographs by Ray Bruun and others.

2. Dennis Paulson's book, "Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West" 
(Princeton Press) should be available by May 1st also.
I am SO looking forward to having this book and will be selling it and 
my revised book (and others) on my  California Dragonflies website.  The 
website is as of today also newly revised  (link in signature below).

As a 'special' to folks in the dragonfly discussion groups, we're 
running a sale price on the books and if you preorder both my book and 
Dennis's together via mail or fax, we'll give you free shipping. There 
is only one way we could do that if you wanted to use PayPal and that 
would be for you to send me an email saying you want to order the books 
and then I could send you a request for that amount. (It won't work to 
just click on the links on the website).

I began my Calif. Dragonflies website back in 1997. It's grown, and 
become a bit cumbersome over the years, so I have totally streamlined 
it. I apologize to anyone who was using the old website....there is a 
link to the old site now at the very bottom of the new entry page, 
however that site will no longer be maintained. When I started the 
California Dragonflies website, there were not even images of all 
species available to link to, and  in order to get images up of most 
Calif. species, I had to provide links to images taken in other states. 
Back then Blair Nikula's Cape Cod site was one of the only sites with 
images of many species. This is no longer the case and the new 
streamlined Calif. website primarily features images taken in California.

A report on the CalOdes discussion group listed the first Libellula on 
the wing today  (Flame Skimmer) - of course that was in San Diego, but I 
do believe we'll be able to see our beloved dragonflies on the wing 
again soon!

Cheers!!
Kathy

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