Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Started at last!

Hooray, home again, and opened the batting with Homo sapiens at 2047 as I crossed into the hallowed land of TM2499. Since then, some quick glances around the garden produced White Dead-nettle, Ash, Ivy and a  self-seeded Horse-chestnut (well, the kids throw some conkers around each year...) Then went for a short leg-stretch and failed to hear any owls, but Alder and Hawthorn were duly ticked at their reliable stake-outs. This is just too easy - only 993 species left to find. I have also found a spider on a tree-trunk, so that's the next job, but the bad news is that the Harlequin Ladybird that was in the downstairs loo before New Year seems to have temporarily done a bunk!

Andy

4 comments:

  1. Can we assume most hedgerow hawthorns are C. monogyna? I'm not sure if we have any Midland Hawthorn around here.

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  2. And was the Ivy plain old Common Ivy, Atlantic Ivy, Persian Ivy, Algerian Ivy or a cross of any/all the above??? Phew, who's daft idea was all of this anyway....

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  3. Tap in "Midland Hawthorn NBN Gateway" on Google, seems pretty darn widespread in lots of places.

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  4. I decided to wait for the leaves to come out. It's the same with willows, etc., etc.

    I have put Hedera helix on though! And taken Arion hortensis off (it's an agg. :( )

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