Dalgety Bay, fife - The 1000 : breakdown

So after a two week recovery period in Turkey here's a breakdown of how the total was reached. I'll have to think about my favourites later.

It's been fun. Sometimes exciting, sometimes trying. Sometimes amazingly easy, sometimes very difficult. There were plenty surprises and a full quarter of the final tally were species new to me. That might be worth breaking down too.

I'm looking forward to looking at some neglected places and groups to be honest, but it's been a very rewarding exercise. I'll continue to record a few "extra" species for when species on the list prove to be bulls.. erroneous. Now I'm taking it a bit easier birds are starting to finally trickle in, though with winter thrushes being the latest additions maybe that pool is drying up.

Here's how the numbers grew compared with previous annual listing on my local nature reserve

You can see the benefit of working a square close to home/work that's always accessible. The other one is too, to be fair, but I never visited it as consistently.

Here's how the numbers grew by category,

It's not so easy to see how the inverts broke down from this but flies came on strong latterly as moths died away. Moths were severely under-represented really as I only was able to take a serious moth trap on site in the final month. Let's not talk about beetles ... the surge of autumn fungi is pretty obvious though.

The way the numbers moved can be seen reasonably well on here:

Class	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	23-Oct
Verts	40	54	64	71	73	74	85	92	95	99
Inverts	54	106	148	208	301	365	411	467	499	505
Plants	69	92	104	122	137	147	188	201	203	203
Fungi	65	72	87	93	99	102	119	139	176	181
Algae	8	13	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	17
Total	236	337	419	511	627	705	820	916	990	1005

And the final breakdown of today's tally of 1005 ...

Category	Oct-23
alga	17
Protist other	0
slime mould	2
lichen	48
fungus	131
liverwort	5
moss	27
flowering plant	165
conifer	2
fern	4
cnidarian	4
mollusc	33
bryozoan	2
annelid	7
flatworm	1
harvestman	5
pseudoscorpion	1
spider	29
gall mite	0
tick	1
millipede	6
centipede	3
crustacean	15
collembola	13
bristletails	1
odonata	0
dermaptera	1
orthoptera	0
hemiptera	29
coleoptera	58
diptera	154
lep-moth	92
lep-butterfly	9
hymenoptera	34
insect-other	4
tunicate	1
echinoderm	1
invert-other	1
fish	4
reptile	0
amphibian	2
bird	88
mammal	5

Just for luck, some more numbers:

1001	Pyrrhula pyrrhula	Bullfinch
1002	Eudasyphora cyanella	A muscid fly
1003	Lactarius pubescens	A mushroom
1004	Turdus iliacus	Redwing
1005	Turdus pilaris	Fieldfare

Lactarius pubescens

Winter thrushes