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A few around derbyshire and nottinghamshire this weekend.
182. Ring ouzel
183. Common tern
184. Little ringed plover
185. Yellow wagtail
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A few around derbyshire and nottinghamshire this weekend.
182. Ring ouzel
183. Common tern
184. Little ringed plover
185. Yellow wagtail
New additions from the Wyre Forest yesterday - always a place that produces a nicely diverse set of sightings. No Wood Warbler evident this year but two new herps was an excellent result, and I saw Fallow Deer for the first time at this site (they're not rare but I've always failed to see them before now). It also reminded me that I need to get back in the swing of woodlouse ID - I used to be able to ID all the regular ones and there were plenty to be found in the Wyre.
Birds:
166. Spotted Flycatcher - Muscicapa striata
Reptiles (at last!):
1. Common Slow Worm - Anguis fragilis
Amphibians:
5. Palmate Newt - Lissotriton helveticus
Invertebrates:
32. Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - Boloria selene
33. Ground Beetle - Abax parallelepipedus
34. Red Wood Ant - Formica rufa
35. Pill Millipede - Glomeris marginata
36. Large Red Damselfly - Pyrrhosoma nymphula
37. Specked Yellow Moth - Pseudopanthera macularia
38. Chimney Sweeper Moth - Odezia atrata
39. Large Skipper - Ochlodes sylvanus
40. Pearl-bordered Fritillary - Boloria euphrosyne
41. Woodland Dor Beetle - Geotrupes stercorosus
Birds:
166. Spotted Flycatcher - Muscicapa striata
Reptiles (at last!):
1. Common Slow Worm - Anguis fragilis
Amphibians:
5. Palmate Newt - Lissotriton helveticus
Invertebrates:
32. Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - Boloria selene
33. Ground Beetle - Abax parallelepipedus
34. Red Wood Ant - Formica rufa
35. Pill Millipede - Glomeris marginata
36. Large Red Damselfly - Pyrrhosoma nymphula
37. Specked Yellow Moth - Pseudopanthera macularia
38. Chimney Sweeper Moth - Odezia atrata
39. Large Skipper - Ochlodes sylvanus
40. Pearl-bordered Fritillary - Boloria euphrosyne
41. Woodland Dor Beetle - Geotrupes stercorosus
Not much to report, but after finally getting around to some trapping…
Mammals:
1. European badger (Meles meles)
2. Eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)**
3. Reeves’s muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi)**
4. Red fox (Vulpes vulpes)
5. Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)
6. European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)**
7. Black rat (Rattus rattus)**
8. Common treeshrew (Tupaia glis)
9. White-thighed langur (Presbytis siamensis)
10. Crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis)
11. Grey-bellied squirrel (Callosciurus caniceps)
12. Southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina)
13. Wild boar (Sus scrofa)
14. Western striped squirrel (Tamiops mcclellandii)
15. Siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus)
16. Plantain squirrel (Callosciurus notatus)
17. Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis)
18. Malay Civet (Viverra tangalunga)
19. Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus)
20. Gaur (Bos frontalis)
21. Sambar (Cervus unicolor)
22. White-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar)
23. Three-striped ground squirrel (Lariscus insignis)
24. Dusky langur (Trachypithecus obscurus)
25. Lesser dog-faced fruit bat (Cynopterus brachyotis)
26. Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus)
27. Quokka (Setonix brachyurus)
28. New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri)
29. Western grey kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus)
30. Short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)
31. Brush-tailed bettong (Bettongia penicillata)
32. Common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)
33. Yellow-footed antechinus (Antechinus flavipes)
34. Western quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii)
35. Grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus)
36. Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus)**
37. Water rat (Hydromys chrysogaster)
38. Long-nosed bandicoot (Parameles nasuta)
39. Common ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus)
40. House mouse (Mus musculus)**
41. Javan rusa (Rusa timorensis)**
42. Pallas’ squirrel (Callosciurus erythraeus)**
43. Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis)
44. Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)**
45. Wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus)
46. Coypu (Myocastor coypus)**
47. Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris)
48. Bank vole (Myodes glareolus)
49. Yellow-necked mouse (Apodemus flavicollis)
**Introduced populations.
I always enjoy your updates @Maguari. You seem like the sort of naturalist I wish I could be.
Mammals:
1. European badger (Meles meles)
2. Eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)**
3. Reeves’s muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi)**
4. Red fox (Vulpes vulpes)
5. Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)
6. European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)**
7. Black rat (Rattus rattus)**
8. Common treeshrew (Tupaia glis)
9. White-thighed langur (Presbytis siamensis)
10. Crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis)
11. Grey-bellied squirrel (Callosciurus caniceps)
12. Southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina)
13. Wild boar (Sus scrofa)
14. Western striped squirrel (Tamiops mcclellandii)
15. Siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus)
16. Plantain squirrel (Callosciurus notatus)
17. Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis)
18. Malay Civet (Viverra tangalunga)
19. Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus)
20. Gaur (Bos frontalis)
21. Sambar (Cervus unicolor)
22. White-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar)
23. Three-striped ground squirrel (Lariscus insignis)
24. Dusky langur (Trachypithecus obscurus)
25. Lesser dog-faced fruit bat (Cynopterus brachyotis)
26. Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus)
27. Quokka (Setonix brachyurus)
28. New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri)
29. Western grey kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus)
30. Short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)
31. Brush-tailed bettong (Bettongia penicillata)
32. Common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)
33. Yellow-footed antechinus (Antechinus flavipes)
34. Western quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii)
35. Grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus)
36. Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus)**
37. Water rat (Hydromys chrysogaster)
38. Long-nosed bandicoot (Parameles nasuta)
39. Common ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus)
40. House mouse (Mus musculus)**
41. Javan rusa (Rusa timorensis)**
42. Pallas’ squirrel (Callosciurus erythraeus)**
43. Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis)
44. Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)**
45. Wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus)
46. Coypu (Myocastor coypus)**
47. Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris)
48. Bank vole (Myodes glareolus)
49. Yellow-necked mouse (Apodemus flavicollis)
**Introduced populations.
New additions from the Wyre Forest yesterday - always a place that produces a nicely diverse set of sightings. No Wood Warbler evident this year but two new herps was an excellent result, and I saw Fallow Deer for the first time at this site (they're not rare but I've always failed to see them before now). It also reminded me that I need to get back in the swing of woodlouse ID - I used to be able to ID all the regular ones and there were plenty to be found in the Wyre.
Birds:
166. Spotted Flycatcher - Muscicapa striata
Reptiles (at last!):
1. Common Slow Worm - Anguis fragilis
Amphibians:
5. Palmate Newt - Lissotriton helveticus
Invertebrates:
32. Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - Boloria selene
33. Ground Beetle - Abax parallelepipedus
34. Red Wood Ant - Formica rufa
35. Pill Millipede - Glomeris marginata
36. Large Red Damselfly - Pyrrhosoma nymphula
37. Specked Yellow Moth - Pseudopanthera macularia
38. Chimney Sweeper Moth - Odezia atrata
39. Large Skipper - Ochlodes sylvanus
40. Pearl-bordered Fritillary - Boloria euphrosyne
41. Woodland Dor Beetle - Geotrupes stercorosus
I always enjoy your updates @Maguari. You seem like the sort of naturalist I wish I could be.
I do like my inverts - though I'm very much a beginner in moths and I have to refer all but the very most distinctive ground beetles to my Dad, who is trained in their ways! He can ID pretty much any UK carabid under the microscope - as I don't collect inverts on my excursions my lists will generally only have ones that can be ID'd from photo, habitat and distribution (even if that still needs a specialist!).
I like the theory of nature-watching that says if you've been out and you think you've seen nothing interesting, you should simply broaden your interests*!
*not as far as geology though - we're not beasts...**
**I jest, of course. Mostly.
47. White-crowned Sparrow
48. Orange-crowned Warbler
48. Orange-crowned Warbler
49.Osprey
Same place as yesterday. No bitterns, sadly, but a lot of other lifers 
MAMMALS:
13) Red fox, Vulpes vulpes
BIRDS:
130) Common whitethroat, Sylvia communis
131) Yellowhammer, Emberiza citrinella
132) Eurasian spoonbill, Platalea leucorodia
133) Lesser whitethroat, Sylvia curruca
MAMMALS:
13) Red fox, Vulpes vulpes
BIRDS:
130) Common whitethroat, Sylvia communis
131) Yellowhammer, Emberiza citrinella
132) Eurasian spoonbill, Platalea leucorodia
133) Lesser whitethroat, Sylvia curruca
Birds:
34. Pheasant Coucal (Centropus phasianinus)
35. Noisy Friarbird (Philemon corniculatus)
36. Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)
37. Straw-necked Ibis (Threskiornis spinicollis)
38. White-browed Scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis)
Mammals:
7. Red-legged Pademelon (Thylogale stigmatica)
50. Red-necked Grebe
51. Common Loon
51. Common Loon
Fun day out in sunny Norfolk yesterday, timed for showy invertebrate purposes. Started with a visit to Thrigby Hall, where I haven't been for ages despite being in the area many times. Any day that starts with an Owston's Palm Civet looking at you is a good one (even if I did, again, fail to get a decent photo!). Obviously this visit is not really of relevance to this thread except for one little moth hanging around Cats' Cloisters:
Invertebrates:
42. Small Magpie - Anania hortulata
At lunchtime I relocated to RSPB Strumpshaw Fen slightly back towards home - a fantastic site but today it really was an invertebrate party, with very few vertebrates visible at all and nothing of particular note beyond the regular displaying marsh harriers. Invertebrates though were fantastic - as well as being one of the best sites for the UK subspecies of Common Swallowtail (ssp. britannicus, restricted to the fens of East Anglia) it's a great dragonfly site home to the similarly-restricted (in the UK) Norfolk Hawker (known elsewhere as the Green-eyed Hawker) - which I've always missed/overlooked on previous visits. An assortment of butterflies, moths, dragonflies, damselflies and one spider follows:
Invertebrates:
43. Common Swallowtail - Papilio machaon
44. Azure Damselfly - Coenagrion puella
45. Norfolk Hawker - Aeshna isosceles
46. Meadow Brown - Manolia jurtina
47. Black-tailed Skimmer - Orthetrum cancellatum
48. Nursery Web Spider - Pisaura mirabilis
49. Garden Tiger (as 'woolly bear' caterpillar) - Arctica caja
50. Scarce Chaser - Libellula fulva
51. Hairy Dragonfly - Brachytron pratense
So a good day, but lacking in vertebrate action. Not having a pressing need to get back, I checked the map and the SatNav and discovered for only about 20 minutes extra driving, I could call by Weeting Heath - one of the few places in Britain where stone curlews can reliably be seen. That was too tempting, particularly as the site involves very little walking. And it was a good call - great way to round off the day.
Birds:
167. Eurasian Stone-Curlew - Burhinus oedicnemus
Invertebrates:
52. Fox Moth - Macothylacia rubi
Invertebrates:
42. Small Magpie - Anania hortulata
At lunchtime I relocated to RSPB Strumpshaw Fen slightly back towards home - a fantastic site but today it really was an invertebrate party, with very few vertebrates visible at all and nothing of particular note beyond the regular displaying marsh harriers. Invertebrates though were fantastic - as well as being one of the best sites for the UK subspecies of Common Swallowtail (ssp. britannicus, restricted to the fens of East Anglia) it's a great dragonfly site home to the similarly-restricted (in the UK) Norfolk Hawker (known elsewhere as the Green-eyed Hawker) - which I've always missed/overlooked on previous visits. An assortment of butterflies, moths, dragonflies, damselflies and one spider follows:
Invertebrates:
43. Common Swallowtail - Papilio machaon
44. Azure Damselfly - Coenagrion puella
45. Norfolk Hawker - Aeshna isosceles
46. Meadow Brown - Manolia jurtina
47. Black-tailed Skimmer - Orthetrum cancellatum
48. Nursery Web Spider - Pisaura mirabilis
49. Garden Tiger (as 'woolly bear' caterpillar) - Arctica caja
50. Scarce Chaser - Libellula fulva
51. Hairy Dragonfly - Brachytron pratense
So a good day, but lacking in vertebrate action. Not having a pressing need to get back, I checked the map and the SatNav and discovered for only about 20 minutes extra driving, I could call by Weeting Heath - one of the few places in Britain where stone curlews can reliably be seen. That was too tempting, particularly as the site involves very little walking. And it was a good call - great way to round off the day.
Birds:
167. Eurasian Stone-Curlew - Burhinus oedicnemus
Invertebrates:
52. Fox Moth - Macothylacia rubi
52. Violet-green Swallow
53. Yellow-rumped Warbler
54. Lincoln Sparrow
54. Lincoln Sparrow
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I have been in the UK for the last few days on a school trip so whilst I was not able to actually look for any wildlife particularly, being my first visit to the UK this year, I was able to see some of the more common UK-but-not-Poland species:
435) Carrion Crow
436) Rose-ringed Parakeet
437) Canada Goose
438) Egyptian Goose
39) Eastern Grey Squirrel
40) European Rabbit
41) Fallow Deer
42) Field Vole
Birds:
39. Azure Kingfisher (Alcedo azurea)
40. Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
Invertebrates:
3. Glass Shrimp (Paratya australiensis)
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