Dalgety Bay - 200 (and 1) up

View to the distant yacht club at the other end of my square

A few more species which are more or less routine, and with a fair list of birds which ought to be around things are ticking along relatively smoothly. I picked up three species of millipede yesterday but they just kill me. Two I couldn't identify and the other was a juvenile Polydesmus. No idea why I have such a hard time with them. I end up in couplets where I know both answers are nonsense. Maybe I need a different key.

Here are a couple of pics of things that I could identify.

Coleroa robertiani, very common on Herb Robert

Leaf miner Phytomyza chaerophylli

The starry Homalothecium sericeum - a common wall dweller

Equipment feature - a £2 craft box for mosses and small fungi and a pot for catching non-flying inverts courtesy of my local takeaway. Both invaluable!

I also just noticed that today's additions bring the bryophyte total up to the year total for 2017! Still a bit of fishing left in that pond though.

And some numbers ...

191	moss	Homalothecium sericeum	Silky Wall Feather-moss
192	moss	Mnium hornum	Swan's-neck Thyme-Moss
193	mollusc	Aegopinella nitidula	Smooth Glass Snail
194	diptera	Phytomyza chaerophylli	Cow parsley Leaf Miner
195	bird	Carduelis carduelis	Goldfinch
196	bird	Fringilla coelebs	Chaffinch
197	bird	Larus fuscus	Lesser Black-backed Gull
198	bird	Podiceps cristatus	Great Crested Grebe
199	fern	Asplenium ruta-muraria	Wall-rue
200	moss	Schistidium apocarpum	Sessile Grimmia
201	bird	Larus canus	Common Gull