TQ6410: Mollusc update

A couple more slugs and snails to add to the list following some helpful ID's from Chris after the last post ..... plus yesterday morning's early stroll round the square.

This one from Sunday should have been Netted Slug Deroceras reticulatum rather than my Chestnut Slug ID .....  Deroceras invadens

326 - my mystery dark-tentacled slug last Sunday - Hedgehog Slug Arion intermedius (hopefully). It was about 15-16 mm curled up and more like 22-24mm as per this pic ..... 

 










327 - Draparnaud's Glass Snail  Oxychilus draparnaudi (thanks again to Chris). I found another one yesterday and that wasn't  all  .....

328 - Garlic Snail  Oxychilus alliarius .....  only very small  (approx. 8-10mm) but very, very garlicky. I thought about chucking it in the pasta last night but fear not ..... no snails were cooked or eaten for the purpose of this blog.

And now for something completely different .....
329 - Egyptian Goose Alopochen aegyptiacus 
While out on my early birding amble around the square yesterday morning, these four (one's just out of the pic) flew over just S of the Castle while I was trying (and failing) to photograph four Chiffchaffs flitting up and down a nearby ditch. They (the geese!) circled a couple of times but then landed very conveniently in the Castle moat. Might have to get Andy to adjudicate on this one. For what it's worth, this was a first for the square and species no.148 for my local patch (Pevensey Levels). And a first new bird of the year  .... whatever their origins. There are several feral flocks roaming around Sussex just now .....

330 - Ivy-leaved Water Crowfoot Ranunculus hederaceus in a little ditch SW of the Church (I was having a quick look for migrant Wheatears in the pasture sloping down to the Levels at the time) ... Thanks to Stuart D's blog for an accidental ID by the way. Then I nearly stepped on .....

331 - Brooklime Veronica beccabunga (also in the ditch) plus two other plants I haven't managed to ID just yet. Meanwhile, back at the plot I got side-tracked yet again:

332 - Amber Snail  Succinea putris  under an old bench.
333 - Centipede  Necrophloeophagus longicornis  under a slab by the plant bench.
334 - Rosy Woodlouse  Androniscus dentiger  underneath another bit of rubble.

335 - Beech Woodwart Hypoxylon fragiforme  ..... appropriately enough on a beech log in the little bluebell wood. Same fungus (but different location) as I posted a couple of weeks back .... but finally found it in the Roger Phillips guide this morning.

336 - Common Jellyspot Dacrymyces stillatus on an old wet stump on the edge of the nearby meadow early yesterday  morning .....

So now up to 336 species - but that'll probably have to do until later this week-end .....