Durham passes the half way line

At last the halfway mark is passed in NZ2549, thanks to the first decent catch this year in the moth trap and yesterday tramping around in the damp alder woodland... but it was worth it. There are about a dozen oak trees in the wood, that consists mainly of alder and birch with a very damp ground floor layer and in these oaks I found a singing (and probably breeding) Wood Warbler. This species is getter rarer by the year in the NE and my first in the square since 2002. Well chuffed.

My Wood Warbler, damn that branch

Chrysotoxum arcuatum - A  strictly northern and western hoverfly, locally frequent up north

 

	Actual	Expected
Birds	74	70
Vascular Plants	226	395
Mosses & Liverworts	41	50
Lichens	12	12
Fungi & Slime Moulds	10	20
Terrestrial Mammals	6	8
Butterflies	10	20
Moths	54	336
Dragonflies	1	9
Hoverflies	15	25
Other inverts	58	50
Amphibians & Reptiles	1	5
Aggregates & hybrids (not included)	14
TOTAL	508	1000

So that's past half way and the easier half is done, onward and upward.


NZ2549 Waldridge, VC66 .