Lawnmowers a-go-go round our way at the weekend and I managed to swish a few flying critters from the back garden. We've been here before though so I expect snow by the end of the week!
Prior to that I finally scored a butterfish, which I saw on almost every trip to the coast last spring, and a lovely hermit crab with passenger. Also my 49th moss -
Funaria hygrometrica. This is, in part, due to acquiring some papilio close-focus binoculars which can focus down to about 18 inches and which allow for scanning areas of ground very close to me without grovelling around peering over my glasses. Imagine carrying a low power stereo microscope - it's like that. If I were you I'd get some. Or at least add them to my wish list! They work at least ok at distance too.
(edit: chucked Monday lunchtime on there too - spring definitely sprung with Big Bee Fly! Nice trickle of Mipits north too)
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Hermit and hydroid |
|
Funaria hygrometrica |
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Brown-lipped |
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Early Grey |
Numbers:
596 |
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flowering plant |
Veronica chamaedrys |
Germander Speedwell |
597 |
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fungus |
Peniophora lycii |
A corticioid fungus |
598 |
|
moss |
Plagiomnium rostratum |
Long-beaked Thyme-moss |
599 |
|
fern |
Phyllitis scolopendrium |
Hart's-tongue |
600 |
|
fungus |
Rhopographus filicinus |
Bracken Map |
601 |
|
moss |
Funaria hygrometrica |
A moss |
602 |
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fern |
Pteridium aquilinum |
Bracken |
603 |
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flowering plant |
Veronica filiformis |
Slender Speedwell |
604 |
|
cnidarian |
Hydractinia echinata |
A hydroid |
605 |
|
mollusc |
Cepea nemoralis |
Brown-lipped Snail |
606 |
|
crustacean |
Pagurus bernhardus |
Hermit Crab |
607 |
|
fish |
Pholis gunnellus |
Butterfish |
608 |
|
diptera |
Melangyna lasiophthalma |
A hoverfly |
609 |
|
lep-moth |
Xylocampa areola |
Early Grey |
610 |
|
hymenoptera |
Andrena bicolor |
Gwynne's Mining Bee |
611 |
|
hymenoptera |
Bombus pascuorum |
Common Carder Bee |
612 |
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flowering plant |
Hyacinthoides non-scripta |
Bluebell |
613 |
|
diptera |
Bombylius major |
Bee Fly |
614 |
|
coleoptera |
Adalia bipunctata |
2-spot Ladybird |
615 |
|
hymenoptera |
Bombus pratorum |
Garden Bumblee |
616 |
|
bird |
Linaria cannabina |
Linnet |
Butterfish sounds good. Do you get them on Skye?
ReplyDeleteCommonest fish I see. I kid ye not - loads!
DeleteIf you could set aside a Monty's sea snail that would be jolly nice
DeleteIn last year's square you would measure them by the pound!
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