Dalgety Bay - Guillemots in the mist

A misty day and easterlies meant some Guillemots were feeding off the small harbour wall but still no gannets, no fulmar, no Little Auk, no LT Duck, no Phalaropes ... this wish list should be getting 2nd nature by now!

I have managed to get a few things and I surely have enough in the store cupboard to clearly leap the halfway point. a few things I thought were bankers turned out to be not what I thought, including my first slug dissection. Is it Deroceras reticulatum or D.agreste? Oh, it;s exciting ... oh, it looks like it's D.invadens. I think. That one to be referred but not clearly what I thought it was anyway.

At the third time of asking I found my favourite "ground" beetle, the arboreal Dromius quadromaculatus, with a session of head-torching. The usual things were on trunks but there are far less isopods and no isopod hunting spiders (so far). This square also seems to have no pill bugs, which makes me think the other square is more calcareous or something of that nature.

Anyway, I had hoped this lot would be enough to go over 500 but it's not! 499! It'll be today though unless something bizarre happens.

492		flowering plant	Mercurialis perennis	Dog's Mercury
493		coleoptera	Dromius quadromaculatus	A ground beetle
494	*	annelid	Eiseniella tetraedra	An earthworm
495		mollusc	Tandonia sowerbyi	Sowerby's Keeled Slug
496		spider	Nuctenea umbratica	Walnut Orb-weaver
497		spider	Zygiella x-notata	A spider
498		lep-moth	Agonopterix heracliana	A micro moth
499		lep-moth	Orthosia gothica	Hebrew Character