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Since I read Graeme Lyons book and did a blog post in April I have been quite project driven. When I say driven, I mean in my amatuerish plodding way rather than Graeme's '6,000 species in a year' driven. Check out Seth's Blog Here to get a better idea of my inspiration...
What I have been doing when out and about birding or whatever, even at work or shopping, is keeping an eye open for anything different and unknown to me. In the last two months that has turned up 60 lifers. To convert that into birder speak that would take me 10 years to get, not two months.
These records and any other stuff are added in to iRecord via the phone app or back home on the PC. iRecord is a second project running in tandem with PSL, where I am trying to add dots to the biodiversity map of our region. In the period there have been 240 new records added, not including birds that go through on eBird,, again paltry compared to Mr Lyons who will think nothing of adding 200 in a morning, but for me, its ticking along nicely. Some of those new species are being discovered retrospectively from photos, social media posts etc going back to 2019.
Today I have added three to the list - Three nerved Sandwort, Raspberry Weevil and a small Caddis Holocentropus picicornis. Yesterday I added Pepper-Saxifrage and Meadow Plant Bug Leptopterna dolobrata. All common enough species nationally but I've not knowingly met them before.
I could do with getting a microscope really rather than relying on the help of others and photo ids, but I don't have lot of space for a set up. Maybe one day...
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Raspberry Weevil Otiorhynchus singularis
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| Three nerved Sandwort Moehringia trinervia |
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