How many different species in half a day?
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:31 pm
I believe bird watchers have a competition each year on 1 January to see the most species in a day.
Last Saturday Paul Millward and I visited 3 sites on the IOW: Shalcombe Down, Walters Copse and the fields opposite my house in Branstone.
We saw 24 species in about 4 hours!
Large, small, green-veined and marbled white; dingy, small and Essex skipper; silver -washed and dark green fritillary; red and white admiral; small tortoiseshell and peacock; comma; common,holly,small and chalkhill blue; brown argus;gatekeeper, meadow brown and ringlet; speckled wood and brimstone.
How can any other county do in half a day?
Last Saturday Paul Millward and I visited 3 sites on the IOW: Shalcombe Down, Walters Copse and the fields opposite my house in Branstone.
We saw 24 species in about 4 hours!
Large, small, green-veined and marbled white; dingy, small and Essex skipper; silver -washed and dark green fritillary; red and white admiral; small tortoiseshell and peacock; comma; common,holly,small and chalkhill blue; brown argus;gatekeeper, meadow brown and ringlet; speckled wood and brimstone.
How can any other county do in half a day?