A set of Lifetime Species Lists for some of the wildlife I have seen and the nature reserves I have visited. As the Chinese Proverb says - "The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names".
Water Bugs Common Pond Skaters (Gerris sp.) River Pond Skaters (Aquarius sp. ) Water Cricket (Velia caprai)
Butterflies
Common Blue Holly Blue Silver-studded Blue Small Blue Small Copper Green Hairstreak Purple Hairstreak Brown Argus Gatekeeper Grayling The Wall Marbled White Meadow Brown Ringlet Scotch Argus Speckled Wood Small Heath Large Heath Large Skipper Small Skipper Dingy Skipper Comma Small Tortoiseshell Painted Lady Peacock Red Admiral White Admiral Marsh Fritillary High Brown Fritillary Dark Green Fritillary Pearl-bordered Fritillary Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary Silver-washed Fritillary Brimstone Clouded Yellow Green-veined White Large White Orange Tip Small White 39 species
+ In captivity Monarch * Swallowtail *
Butterflies at The Willows
Holly Blue, Meadow Brown, Speckled Wood, Comma, Small Tortoiseshell, Red Admiral, Peacock, Painted Lady, Orange Tip, Large White, Small White, Green-veined White.
12 species at Sept 2009
Dragonflies and Damselflies
DAMSELFLIES Azure Damselfly Banded Demoiselle Beautiful Demoiselle Blue-tailed Damselfly Common Blue Damselfly Emerald Damselfly Large Red Damselfly
DRAGONFLIES Azure Hawker Brown Hawker Common Hawker Migrant Hawker Southern Hawker Golden-ringed Dragonfly Black Darter Common Darter (Highland Darter - arguably a subsp.) Ruddy Darter Broad-bodied Chaser Four-spotted Chaser Keeled Skimmer Emperor
40 species as at Dec 2004 43 species as at Sept 2005 49 species as at June 2008 50 species as at July 2008 52 species as at Sept 2008
Mammals
European Badger Western Hedgehog Rabbit Brown Hare Grey Squirrel Red Squirrel Water Vole Field Vole Common Shrew Stoat Weasel Brown Rat House Mouse Wood Mouse Red Fox Pine Marten American Mink Red Deer Fallow Deer Muntjac Grey Seal Pipistrelle Daubenton's Bat Noctule Dartmoor Pony Exmoor Pony Welsh Mountain Pony New Forest Pony Dolphin sp.
28 species in the wild as at Sept 2008 + the following in captivity*
Sika Deer* Wild Cat* Bank Vole * Edible Dormouse * Black Rat* Harvest Mouse * Eurasian Otter * European Polecat *
Moths
MACRO-MOTHS
Ghost Moth Orange Swift Common Swift Map-winged Swift
The Lackey (larva only) Grass Eggar Oak Eggar Fox Moth The Drinker
Emperor Moth
Pebble Hook-tip Chinese Character
Peach Blossom Buff Arches
Grass Emerald Large Emerald Common Emerald Small emerald Blood-vein Small Blood-vein Cream Wave Small Fan-footed Wave Dwarf Cream Wave Small Dusty Wave Single-dotted Wave Riband Wave Plain Wave Flame Carpet Red Carpet Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet Silver-ground Carpet Garden Carpet Shaded Broad-bar Lead Belle July Belle Common Carpet Wood Carpet Galium Carpet Yellow Shell Dark spinach Purple Bar The Phoenix The Chevron Northern Spinach Barred Straw Small Phoenix Dark Marbled Carpet Common Marbled Carpet Barred Yellow Spruce Carpet Green Carpet July Highflyer Argent and Sable Scallop Shell Cloaked Carpet November Moth Winter Moth The Rivulet Small Rivulet Barred Rivulet Twin-spot Carpet Foxglove Pug Mottled Pug Netted Pug Lime-speck Pug Triple-spotted Pug Wormwood Pug Currant Pug Common Pug White-spotted Pug Grey Pug Tawny Speckled Pug Bordered Pug Narrow-winged Pug Double-striped Pug Treble-bar Chimney Sweeper Yellow-barred Brindle The Magpie Clouded Magpie Clouded Border Latticed Heath The V-Moth Brown Silver-line Scorched Wing Brimstone Moth Bordered Beauty Speckled Yellow Canary-shouldered Thorn Early Thorn Lunar Thorn Purple Thorn Scalloped Hazel Scalloped Oak Swallow-tailed Moth Small Brindled Beauty Pale Brindled Beauty Peppered Moth Dotted Border Mottled Umber Willow Beauty Mottled Beauty Pale Oak Beauty Brussels Lace The Engrailed Small Engrailed Grey Birch Common Heath Bordered White Common White Wave Common Wave Clouded Silver Light Emerald Barred Red
The postings will be introductions to each of my life lists. The lists themselves will appear in the side margin. I shall do some postings about particular localities and there will also be postings to provide updates every time I add a new species. Please note that I am not qualified in any aspect of natural history - there will therefore be occasional (or, apparently, in the case of the hoverflies, a lot of) errors.
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Fieldfares & Redwings
Two new bird species were added to the garden list on 13th January as Fieldfares and Redwings came into the garden to drink at the ponds.
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Pretty birds! You've got some snow too!!
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