Everyone else is doing it, so why can't I, as The Cranberries almost said. So here's my January breakdown (numbers, not mental. That'll probably hit me around about September, I imagine).
Algae - 27 (1 charophyte, 18 freshwater, 7 marine, 1 terrestrial)
Lichens - 18
Fungi - 30
Bryophytes - 19
Vascular Plants - 109
Cnidarians - 1(an anemone)
Molluscs - 19 (14 terrestrial, 1 freshwater, 4 marine)
Bryozoans - 2
Annelids - 1
Platyhelminths - 4 (3 terrestrial, 1 freshwater)
Nemerteans - 1 (terrestrial)
Arachnids - 6 (3 spiders, 1 pseudoscorpion, 1 harvestman, 1 mite)
Myriapods -7 (3 centipedes, 4 millipedes)
Crustaceans - 6 (3 terrestrial, 3 marine)
Springtails - 1
Bristletails - 1
Orthopteroids - 1 (an earwig)
Coleoptera - 3
Diptera - 2
Moths - 4
Insects - small orders - 1 (a lacewing)
Fish - 2
Birds - 51
Mammals - 1 (human...)
Total for January is 317 species, not quite a third of the way towards the 1000 species. I've set myself a rather ambitious target of 1350 species in total, which puts me at almost a quarter of the way towards that target. It'll be better when the weather improves and I have a bit more spare time to explore the square in daylight hours.
February will probably be a fairly poor month for me, I'm heading on a two week roadtrip sometime mid-month and I'm still busy at work during daylight hours right up until I head off. Still, 317 is a tremendous start. If nothing else it has Ali all stoked up (probably aiming to hit his 1000 before the end of March, haha!)
Here are a few of my highlights from January -
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| Neobisium carcinoides in a drystone wall |
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| White-billed Diver - a ridiculously poor (and heavily cropped!) image |
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| Vuilleminia coryli - the Waxy Crust Fungus on Hazel twigs and branches |
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| Mycetophila ornata - a fungus gnat regularly attracted to lights at night |
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