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  1. Hevden

    Hevden Well-Known Member

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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
     
  2. Vision

    Vision Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    New one from my garden yesterday, very happy to see these guys back again!

    AMPHIBIANS:
    3) Common toad, Bufo bufo
     
  3. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

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    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

    :)
     
  4. Giant Panda

    Giant Panda Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    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.
     
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  5. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

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    :)

    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. ;)
     
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  6. Vision

    Vision Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Went out to spot a little bittern, and I found a little bittern! :D

    BIRDS:
    128) Little bittern, Ixobrychus minutus
    129) Eurasian reed warbler, Acrocephalus scirpaceus
     
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  7. Pleistohorse

    Pleistohorse Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    47. White-crowned Sparrow
    48. Orange-crowned Warbler
     
  8. Pleistohorse

    Pleistohorse Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    49.Osprey
     
  9. Vision

    Vision Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Same place as yesterday. No bitterns, sadly, but a lot of other lifers :D

    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
     
  10. animal_expert01

    animal_expert01 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    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)
     
  11. Pleistohorse

    Pleistohorse Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    50. Red-necked Grebe
    51. Common Loon
     
  12. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

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    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

    :)
     
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  13. Pleistohorse

    Pleistohorse Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    52. Violet-green Swallow
     
  14. animal_expert01

    animal_expert01 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Reptiles:

    8. Dtella (Gehyra Dubai)
     
  15. Pleistohorse

    Pleistohorse Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    53. Yellow-rumped Warbler
    54. Lincoln Sparrow
     
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  16. Vision

    Vision Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    BIRDS:
    134) Garden warbler, Sylvia borin
    135) European blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla
    136) Bearded reedling, Panurus biarmicus
     
  17. LaughingDove

    LaughingDove Well-Known Member

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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
     
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  18. animal_expert01

    animal_expert01 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Birds:
    39. Azure Kingfisher (Alcedo azurea)
    40. Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)

    Invertebrates:
    3. Glass Shrimp (Paratya australiensis)
     
  19. Hix

    Hix Wildlife Enthusiast and Lover of Islands 15+ year member Premium Member

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    Fish
    265. Red Maori Wrasse
    266. Zebra Dartfish
    267. Blue-lined Triggerfish
    268. Onespot Demoiselle
    269. Peppered Moray
    270. Humbug
    271. Lagoon Triggerfish

    :p

    Hix
     
  20. Hevden

    Hevden Well-Known Member

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    A couple more from nottinghamshire last night

    186. Nightjar
    187. Barn owl
     
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