Dalgety Bay - is it spring?

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)

Hermit and hydroid

Funaria hygrometrica

Brown-lipped

Early Grey

Numbers:

596		flowering plant	Veronica chamaedrys	Germander Speedwell
597		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		fern	Pteridium aquilinum	Bracken
603		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		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