Species recorded this week:
Dates: 15th - 21th April 2024
Weather conditions:
Cool (15-3 degrees), strong winds early in the week (max. 48mph), mostly dry and sunny.
Amphibians:
Bats (emergence & dusk to dawn surveys):
Barbastelle Bat - 16/04/24
Brandt’s bat - 17/04/24
Brown Long-eared Bat - 16/04/24
Common Pipistrelle - - 16/04/24, 17/04/24, 18/04/24
Daubenton's Bat - 16/04/24, 17/04/24
Lesser Horseshoe Bat - 16/04/24, 17/04/24
Myotis sp. - 18/04/24
Nathusius's Pipistrelle - 16/04/24, 17/04/24
Natterer's Bat - 16/04/24, 17/04/24
Noctule Bat - 16/04/24, 17/04/24
Serotine - 16/04/24, 17/04/24, 18/04/24
Soprano Pipistrelle - 16/04/24, 17/04/24, 18/04/24
Next survey using Echo Meter Touch on 19/04
Beetles:
Amara sp.
Violet Oil-Beetle
Birds:
BlackBird
Blackcap
Blue Tit
Chaffinch
Chiffchaff
Coal Tit
Collared Dove
Dunnock
Goldfinch
Great Tit
Green Woodpecker
Lesser Whitethroat - tbc (new species)
Oystercatcher
Pheasant
Robin
Sky Lark
Song Thrush
Swallow
Tawny Owl
Wren
Butterflies (On transects):
Brimstone
Orange-Tip
Peacock
Speckled Wood
Caddis flies:
Limnephilus sparsus
Dragonflies:
Ferns:
Flowering plants:
Alexanders
Barren Strawberry
Blackthorn
Bracken
Bugle
Common Dandelion
Common Dog-Violet
Common Groundsel
Common Twayblade (non-flowering)
Cowslip
Cuckoo Flower
Dog's mercury
Early Purple Orchid
Elder (non-flowering)
Greater Stitchwort
Hazel
Herb Robert
Land Cress (non-flowering)
Lesser Celandine
Lesser Periwinkle
Marsh Thistle (non-flowering)
Opposite-leaved Golden-Saxifrage
Primrose
Ragged-Robin
Red Campion
Sycamore (non-flowering)
Water Figwort (non-flowering)
Wood Forget-Me-Not
Yellow Rattle (non-flowering)
Fungi:
Harvestmen:
Hymenopteran (Bees & wasps):
Common Carder Bee
Isopoda (Woodlice):
Lacewing:
Lichens:
Liverwort:
Mammals:
Brown Hare
Grey Squirrel
Roe deer
Millipedes:
Molluscs:
Moss:
Moths :
Brimstone Moth
Brindled Beauty
Brown Silver-line
Chestnut
Clouded Drab
Clouded Silver
Common Quaker
Dark Sword-grass
Dotted Border
Early Thorn
Green Carpet
Hebrew Character
Least Black Arches
March Moth
Muslin Moth
Oak-Tree Pug
Red Chestnut
Red Twin-spot Carpet
Shoulder-Stripe
Next survey using Heath Trap with 40W actinic tube on 19/04
Orthoptera:
Reptiles:
Grass snake
Slow-worm
Scorpion flies:
Spiders:
True bugs:
True flies:
Dark-edged Bee-fly
Noon Fly