tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29722914331536726392024-03-13T02:30:42.199-07:00Biodiversity GatwickThoughts and experiences of ecologists and conservationists working at one of the UK’s busiest airportsRachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-47844039684034094142023-11-25T03:11:00.000-08:002023-11-25T03:19:04.739-08:00Shifting baselines: 12 field seasons at Gatwick<div>After 11.5 years, the time came for me to move away from leading the biodiversity project at Gatwick. This job has been made up of so many great moments; fascinating species, dynamic habitats through all the seasons, fieldwork with brilliant ecological minds and the occasional quiet moments on my own, taking it all in. Without the multitudes of people working and supporting the project I'd have been lost at sea; no man is an island! So here's a deposit of happy memories and the good people I had the pleasure to work with, from April 2012 to September 2023. I hope these will be seen and enjoyed by others. </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxuncNqY1d7EG2HdJalJQJNtELXZbStCAdvbvzOoC1N_mK0ZB7v7d2-R_hIfx7lFDboiNHboxhWxlIOqoj7t1g1Wuq-OpArS11h-_lM7phTUKJJAz_0l8RagFf7YiYShTUam-CYOk1ZN6sgFDwcNxQ0tubTFTmQyHO2KMCuf6gEN_KFxJZso2Cq-aOtk4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="715" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxuncNqY1d7EG2HdJalJQJNtELXZbStCAdvbvzOoC1N_mK0ZB7v7d2-R_hIfx7lFDboiNHboxhWxlIOqoj7t1g1Wuq-OpArS11h-_lM7phTUKJJAz_0l8RagFf7YiYShTUam-CYOk1ZN6sgFDwcNxQ0tubTFTmQyHO2KMCuf6gEN_KFxJZso2Cq-aOtk4=w461-h364" width="461" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My first season reptile surveying in the Land East Zone (April 2012)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEje9B4ChNaHlJ0bjvVGYgqkL_G0op2uF9-J-kJxJxWV4DWhixNxMKd5hvIWoyAoTFCawPHwRwsUIxdYY-JAhNuYAKfTM5ifMQXtb8jVAh4PbMdm6DqOUJwZrfCBKN2u1FEtvIxjzXN8cn_4bY_o10yzTqL4-d3gA3f-MZJZ1vQZTQSjd59ic_NO33o5O1M" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEje9B4ChNaHlJ0bjvVGYgqkL_G0op2uF9-J-kJxJxWV4DWhixNxMKd5hvIWoyAoTFCawPHwRwsUIxdYY-JAhNuYAKfTM5ifMQXtb8jVAh4PbMdm6DqOUJwZrfCBKN2u1FEtvIxjzXN8cn_4bY_o10yzTqL4-d3gA3f-MZJZ1vQZTQSjd59ic_NO33o5O1M=w463-h346" width="463" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tom Forward with a Death's-head Hawk-moth! Gatwick Stream grasslands (July 2012)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOYybj4kD9pm9SNO73g4bz4s66QC0XdR_maab28FO9CqMSZXHJc3LLwCphqKqavhtmtvjbgp_syx6T26wvcf6mQyMaPz4q1UrvpMxR8Sacyel8CSToauklBW0DVagFROsMoWpQxFg_yTGWDjmh21B4Lo_l0nkcDT1Igm3QiVIyIFo8dYY_-LKn9s-x3DM/s1642/James%20Webster%20Oct%202012.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1231" data-original-width="1642" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOYybj4kD9pm9SNO73g4bz4s66QC0XdR_maab28FO9CqMSZXHJc3LLwCphqKqavhtmtvjbgp_syx6T26wvcf6mQyMaPz4q1UrvpMxR8Sacyel8CSToauklBW0DVagFROsMoWpQxFg_yTGWDjmh21B4Lo_l0nkcDT1Igm3QiVIyIFo8dYY_-LKn9s-x3DM/w472-h355/James%20Webster%20Oct%202012.JPG" width="472" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">James Webster, JSA Biodiversity and Landscape Manager, River Mole north of the airfield (October 2012)</div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidFTWabtiWQIuLMsUL8MtNV1Y4nq7tpOLtpwI7F6nQp7pntVtZj8kpFogjW7Ju6aULnmHyS_xOKObKgKliJM2uvpo5eGhJ2vfJylgHedxSx4SrcVgNBHhqz5_PxEdZ_ANI3v4yeAWmo8RIw0JAP5N97JDfnKRcoGjptma4CtX_o5vshgdnbwK7LFX8Y8Y/s3648/IMG_3899.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidFTWabtiWQIuLMsUL8MtNV1Y4nq7tpOLtpwI7F6nQp7pntVtZj8kpFogjW7Ju6aULnmHyS_xOKObKgKliJM2uvpo5eGhJ2vfJylgHedxSx4SrcVgNBHhqz5_PxEdZ_ANI3v4yeAWmo8RIw0JAP5N97JDfnKRcoGjptma4CtX_o5vshgdnbwK7LFX8Y8Y/w488-h366/IMG_3899.JPG" width="488" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Botanical survey on the River Mole with Giles Groome (July 2013)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_fGWmOm57NAlZwi2z4IbKZedb0OrTSWs5zZvrl_wlB3qzxM09eAgRUh61xtkIs91WqfKv2rx1S6Haa2KMtpY-S_HPkp8A1U4sP1G-uz6cmbL4_j3m4lCpMo2s5OerPLBe970KmvoE-FS7r22DnMkdkJiQD8VwrXpog0hmDuUCABCukgb_D2ufdiZaV4o" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">Volunteers with Gatwick Greenspace Partnership Project Officers Tom Simpson and Kevin Lerwill, Brockley Wood (December 2013)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8W7dQMzvr-p1U32Un1Sx3eoxxLzqXDaN78fARmg24CW4A3B6pQ1ntN4fmiWTP1Na_iHjm-6EDKFvY8vEOUPRhQGngUGMDiQ9ed5DK7HXBZE5IE8eNM_dsKrME51NkSqsfconbZv6I6bV7XpNLi9Jd0WdFGRDWEBFUYaVfaDHdC6bZbuSGLMKac6QJgBY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2000" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8W7dQMzvr-p1U32Un1Sx3eoxxLzqXDaN78fARmg24CW4A3B6pQ1ntN4fmiWTP1Na_iHjm-6EDKFvY8vEOUPRhQGngUGMDiQ9ed5DK7HXBZE5IE8eNM_dsKrME51NkSqsfconbZv6I6bV7XpNLi9Jd0WdFGRDWEBFUYaVfaDHdC6bZbuSGLMKac6QJgBY=w484-h363" width="484" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Winter bird survey in the North West Zone (December 2013)</div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcYFqZYHUyUnUidzVD2RxTetsQIuKaE-h3SAh2NoDYeYhW-QnubEcgvpHsNEU7DNeUVRaigkhaZBocdaUWMyohA6GAFz8_Fr2Bn2iHJvZu4liS9XT-AmpaRtmGE-f94p-8aNaEINHXRreyIGu_d3rgmkiZAFozO0x8kjfqN1RAoLP8WrNC-ooAchU3tu8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcYFqZYHUyUnUidzVD2RxTetsQIuKaE-h3SAh2NoDYeYhW-QnubEcgvpHsNEU7DNeUVRaigkhaZBocdaUWMyohA6GAFz8_Fr2Bn2iHJvZu4liS9XT-AmpaRtmGE-f94p-8aNaEINHXRreyIGu_d3rgmkiZAFozO0x8kjfqN1RAoLP8WrNC-ooAchU3tu8=w465-h349" width="465" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Gatwick's Environment, Health and Safety Team coppicing in Upper Picketts Wood (February 2014)</div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglZlu-mJmm7-696lgNr9aKYNetucpXppK4FER2D2FdEuFnq_QZE25pLnxVzpTjKG_mLGKT0acStrZpDp0IKDMC--Wmd7JdnJAEf-HCibOh_UfxhheMdoIB8lPHbMWmCaRIJFaHzonzns_pdwQ9nytg2aI5PyOH3bXe7qnpRvc2OkM2YgXZ7B_Cs87pkOM" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">Gatwick Greenspace Partnership volunteering day on the River Mole (June 2014)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiev9Q_qt2JM-uDFzYd4I6b0M6MTFKRb5Q-1uybgB8hxtr5CL4OsrLrYciU-7w8ZF29MkmbO9igBhnUk3CfoJkth40BmUPW2xczaCYaQnuor8UTwKS9n9fIwvYnu46xYxlf35pIu6VJhXZEZ8edwbjb6kJsgrf43sLRGq-XNQUJ1bdPWELKSikZMjqH28E" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiev9Q_qt2JM-uDFzYd4I6b0M6MTFKRb5Q-1uybgB8hxtr5CL4OsrLrYciU-7w8ZF29MkmbO9igBhnUk3CfoJkth40BmUPW2xczaCYaQnuor8UTwKS9n9fIwvYnu46xYxlf35pIu6VJhXZEZ8edwbjb6kJsgrf43sLRGq-XNQUJ1bdPWELKSikZMjqH28E=w472-h354" width="472" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;">Our first Gatwick Wildlife Recording Day (August 2014)</div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjanfgTf9PkHdzwh9GAEwzEr57lIetMlBm5ajxtCcmxi6HecVMy3lJKKQarEWvWDbg91PGrWU5u0Qbn8Lw3ozGkmz509XhyUKWtrCO27b-XUcjxaAEHnoZYWT4qYECounLKC0BrC3X75QPzLeG5qEu1V4E29-mE1pVsfgF4F1Xy0yoAxQaGtd8JhwwzU-I" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="2160" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjanfgTf9PkHdzwh9GAEwzEr57lIetMlBm5ajxtCcmxi6HecVMy3lJKKQarEWvWDbg91PGrWU5u0Qbn8Lw3ozGkmz509XhyUKWtrCO27b-XUcjxaAEHnoZYWT4qYECounLKC0BrC3X75QPzLeG5qEu1V4E29-mE1pVsfgF4F1Xy0yoAxQaGtd8JhwwzU-I=w459-h344" width="459" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Harvest Mouse surveying with Jim Jones of Surrey Mammal Group, River Mole (November 2014)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifoEeGuhyAj8tX06IfK06E6bc6rbrz1XdI_w_dB-gM_Wh0Ck_9Aor4oPPhxy9mI7idMue0pdcDBFTRI3J0mKxINcxfmYvDkRlBB4B-RXd1PF7nFdIpm2C-EFZkvjqzlK0hUmcr-G8CoquhzjT7w6iU6f_Z_gYs7g0kxd_LNJI8OZSbrEWPn_DbZv1FzCc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3239" data-original-width="3694" height="477" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifoEeGuhyAj8tX06IfK06E6bc6rbrz1XdI_w_dB-gM_Wh0Ck_9Aor4oPPhxy9mI7idMue0pdcDBFTRI3J0mKxINcxfmYvDkRlBB4B-RXd1PF7nFdIpm2C-EFZkvjqzlK0hUmcr-G8CoquhzjT7w6iU6f_Z_gYs7g0kxd_LNJI8OZSbrEWPn_DbZv1FzCc=w544-h477" width="544" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The story of a goat farm; Harris & Hoole Cafe in Tesco Extra (Hookwood, 2014)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha_DGonnNCpJQALExAP8Ihm6MABhe9giSGSpUZk7FW64Nl9i9MB7NLQh8C0z6svgsf3w4EBwpibdlY3JBCpuT5h78G7Jbuwjd0LCNlhCanA18FV5vaEo2k0Y6L2jwTTvWiOLmwaE2u6mngvBnzBBtRouhoTKYjCsprqwxM9uOVENscXbIjxSf7dYZ1g6I/s2000/0.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2000" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha_DGonnNCpJQALExAP8Ihm6MABhe9giSGSpUZk7FW64Nl9i9MB7NLQh8C0z6svgsf3w4EBwpibdlY3JBCpuT5h78G7Jbuwjd0LCNlhCanA18FV5vaEo2k0Y6L2jwTTvWiOLmwaE2u6mngvBnzBBtRouhoTKYjCsprqwxM9uOVENscXbIjxSf7dYZ1g6I/w485-h364/0.JPG" width="485" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Goat Meadow beetle loggery (February 2015)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">At the Gatwick Apiary with Tom Simpson and Gill Sentinella (September 2015)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXkR876GA6_Y6vF7LbaxIoKHpoeq9Inuni2QuZxZFwAgpVeqVh5Xcx9UmMjbTdRtKsGs2yvjTXMzrjxTABH8-ejs5tD9kkcu3empiRh0jWj4KU3DmTD79gB64P3mezAa8jOo4iR6Q-lNlQkmme9v9cQJDcYe3juRFh1drvcOQnMVt7PGtIoGLwubbR53Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1469" data-original-width="1958" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXkR876GA6_Y6vF7LbaxIoKHpoeq9Inuni2QuZxZFwAgpVeqVh5Xcx9UmMjbTdRtKsGs2yvjTXMzrjxTABH8-ejs5tD9kkcu3empiRh0jWj4KU3DmTD79gB64P3mezAa8jOo4iR6Q-lNlQkmme9v9cQJDcYe3juRFh1drvcOQnMVt7PGtIoGLwubbR53Q=w440-h330" width="440" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Roots Upwards Ltd tree surgeon Adam creating a glade at Lower Picketts Wood (March 2016)</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_bHH5ZSM42ogAwm4HDCpEnAWGowfVd9gCyZaNty0sygH3Tg_F5JO_kebAwUNCqCABnZqDpI8Fy_Po2SfbzPpkjYDey6mpUSI97rkmJW_XbgxPrxXWStvJcqX5jemidism-RW-ysadC47T-MYGI44qCAvonPwUW3GOIlosksHlXc10ux6HJPvuEnZng1Q/s1000/s16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="827" data-original-width="1000" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_bHH5ZSM42ogAwm4HDCpEnAWGowfVd9gCyZaNty0sygH3Tg_F5JO_kebAwUNCqCABnZqDpI8Fy_Po2SfbzPpkjYDey6mpUSI97rkmJW_XbgxPrxXWStvJcqX5jemidism-RW-ysadC47T-MYGI44qCAvonPwUW3GOIlosksHlXc10ux6HJPvuEnZng1Q/w475-h394/s16.jpg" width="475" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Surrey and Sussex Botanical Society at the Gatwick Stream; </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Brian and Linda Pitkin, Brad, Arthur and Janice (May 2016)</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcK_oLSFmYRqwIqjhAVZyesEvhSHcIgIWnj2yL8btlHG6XMaSI7MvwoKyN8eMbapwWW-F3fHfr6NFc0cHVq0P1BY3y_nFi8g17V8mXh9fd53W_vbj7Ny1mEfkhRMg_hzmIVRZCNzC0Bv5VVqBzIMgb1ngmZw79wmsPyf7vAHQPce1fH0xEzt95A_YwimI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="832" data-original-width="1246" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcK_oLSFmYRqwIqjhAVZyesEvhSHcIgIWnj2yL8btlHG6XMaSI7MvwoKyN8eMbapwWW-F3fHfr6NFc0cHVq0P1BY3y_nFi8g17V8mXh9fd53W_vbj7Ny1mEfkhRMg_hzmIVRZCNzC0Bv5VVqBzIMgb1ngmZw79wmsPyf7vAHQPce1fH0xEzt95A_YwimI=w464-h311" width="464" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Botanists breaking out; Paul, Caroline and Frances take a short cut out of Rolls Field (M</span>ay 2016)</div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCJJmtqj9VXmz40xhaX2R3juhmj0-yJ85eQFm0hLhQJiQAuqXvFqUIB8vrAK-QPW6pRYG33p8JI5xr5o8_jKEXILXcVHV8qsG9h3l8JrJfluOTAWyzE9In1xM3dH6s7WMvyaF5ntBKwN3bNj2CsoOtQ4pVgw9ZWIoLLtyfkG81kHXplKV92DrwvsuYV3g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1094" data-original-width="1533" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCJJmtqj9VXmz40xhaX2R3juhmj0-yJ85eQFm0hLhQJiQAuqXvFqUIB8vrAK-QPW6pRYG33p8JI5xr5o8_jKEXILXcVHV8qsG9h3l8JrJfluOTAWyzE9In1xM3dH6s7WMvyaF5ntBKwN3bNj2CsoOtQ4pVgw9ZWIoLLtyfkG81kHXplKV92DrwvsuYV3g=w512-h365" width="512" /></a></div>Bumblebee survey training day; course leader Richard Comont and attendees </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Ryan Mitchell, myself and RHUL student Ellie along the River Mole (July 2016) </div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwALkOJrF0TnCLMTb0dKhCVXIPZtY6PB_6GTdnoiCEczYlHIsP40i0_KYDAYvj8s2ZCmxnTqqSO8abUDzqk5faRF6zrMu35lR-Ca6gVtJxgb9LIHVvG7tAhzC1_3p_s-7DRnkc6QsVmokK1NKtuOPUfHh1plxrPhapxbqPVq_qNW4I_zoT5uUMbgNwACM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="961" data-original-width="1483" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwALkOJrF0TnCLMTb0dKhCVXIPZtY6PB_6GTdnoiCEczYlHIsP40i0_KYDAYvj8s2ZCmxnTqqSO8abUDzqk5faRF6zrMu35lR-Ca6gVtJxgb9LIHVvG7tAhzC1_3p_s-7DRnkc6QsVmokK1NKtuOPUfHh1plxrPhapxbqPVq_qNW4I_zoT5uUMbgNwACM=w537-h348" width="537" /></a></div>Roots Upwards get a jumpstart from Glendale, North West Zone (November 2016)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">Volunteer dormouse surveyor Jerry Cheeseman checking nest boxes in Horleyland Wood (July 2017)</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0A_Uhtv5HRImLafz-y4o_RcHEBX9sKgqa_ltjgSasAxgY9hS-xNVzWhRfdDLQsnaAxVHTQ5l5joyNdZyfT2gBrvXTjQ2qnJAtIBcbc-g8crkIVe-cbG4vcMEAtNEgFVz65Txvetdm7eyTC1o3JQ4PGTQ-FES-jVdzHUAs5u34MPobmcvnoNzf-4PCHSo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0A_Uhtv5HRImLafz-y4o_RcHEBX9sKgqa_ltjgSasAxgY9hS-xNVzWhRfdDLQsnaAxVHTQ5l5joyNdZyfT2gBrvXTjQ2qnJAtIBcbc-g8crkIVe-cbG4vcMEAtNEgFVz65Txvetdm7eyTC1o3JQ4PGTQ-FES-jVdzHUAs5u34MPobmcvnoNzf-4PCHSo=w441-h331" width="441" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">at the Gatwick Stream flood attenuation (February 2023)</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwim0Va1DYrxbi0fkZNZXCb0b_wfBkQ89zCAUtmJgljrTdY1RJUfFBhfBYi2-cEwbxFCkuOIF4HZQ7topfRoUPpA8nwM8xyRCUBAWMrS-_r8ws-jI5DHAcp4hDZzAz5Qss_3C1FpM2Ma599t_L6_oN6FLTh-FGfULVOyDcw4glNBmiLLgcQWGj0dU7keM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1130" data-original-width="847" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwim0Va1DYrxbi0fkZNZXCb0b_wfBkQ89zCAUtmJgljrTdY1RJUfFBhfBYi2-cEwbxFCkuOIF4HZQ7topfRoUPpA8nwM8xyRCUBAWMrS-_r8ws-jI5DHAcp4hDZzAz5Qss_3C1FpM2Ma599t_L6_oN6FLTh-FGfULVOyDcw4glNBmiLLgcQWGj0dU7keM=w358-h478" width="358" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Wildlife Rangers newt surveying with Ryan Greaves of Sussex Wildlife Trust (April 2023)</div><br /></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">GGPO Barry Wildish, VRMs Phil, Chris, Robert and myself, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">grasslands west of Brockley Wood (October 2023)</div></div>Rachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-63428839586573933442023-04-27T22:47:00.003-07:002023-11-09T07:12:58.794-08:00Gatwick Airport's Annual Biodiversity Review 2022<p>Below
is a link to the Gatwick Biodiversity Annual Review 2022; quite a late one this
year but there has been so much to report on, a whole 16 pages longer than last
year’s! A
huge thank you to our ecology surveying team, our amazing volunteers and our
Gatwick colleagues who make all of the good stuff happen on the ground.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">This
year we have bid a fond farewell to two stalwarts from the project; Tom Errett
(Environment Advisor with Gatwick’s Environment Team, joined in 2015) and Tom Simpson
(Gatwick’s Project Officer from the Gatwick Greenspace Partnership, joined in 2013). We are incredibly grateful for all their hard work in
shaping Gatwick’s biodiversity project over the years, and they are leaving it in
very good stead. They are not going far and we will be keeping in touch!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a href="https://www.gatwickairport.com/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-Gatwick-Library/default/dwe9d8d966/images/Corporate-PDFs/Sustainability/Biodiversity-reports/Biodiversity_Annual_Review_2022.pdf" target="_blank">2022 Annual Biodiversity Review</a><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHiSnxt4yccQ2Eq8MtXiob0_Vekoi4qVyXJzU_rrDq3m-1VOpQlfZKjFGsywZP62HfE-w-OeK-qAkDcfsLpKrbjxV6V_ue6oXdMgKUXQ_K8gveT6kvwwHjYUSVI4eY7DehF6gUgvmJLaH8zeJZQX3-2MR5d4zkrOpu1VVkgLzZSxu91n86NeBc5xb7/s798/report%20cover%202022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="559" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHiSnxt4yccQ2Eq8MtXiob0_Vekoi4qVyXJzU_rrDq3m-1VOpQlfZKjFGsywZP62HfE-w-OeK-qAkDcfsLpKrbjxV6V_ue6oXdMgKUXQ_K8gveT6kvwwHjYUSVI4eY7DehF6gUgvmJLaH8zeJZQX3-2MR5d4zkrOpu1VVkgLzZSxu91n86NeBc5xb7/w448-h640/report%20cover%202022.jpg" width="448" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></p>Rachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-80527912948119703332023-01-09T01:27:00.008-08:002023-01-09T01:31:33.531-08:00Gatwick trail cams 2022<p>A four-minute compilation of trail camera footage from Gatwick's biodiversity sites during 2022. </p><p>Works best with the sound on...</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="500" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V51q-ZfrJZY" width="601" youtube-src-id="V51q-ZfrJZY"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><br /><p><br /></p>Rachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-85854284844636481062022-12-15T00:07:00.038-08:002022-12-15T00:23:25.049-08:00Aerodome of the Dragon <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Of all the UK airports, could Gatwick be the one with the highest diversity of Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies)? I imagine strong contenders might be London Ashford Airport (Lydd) in Kent, or even Heathrow Airport in Surrey... I am boldly throwing down the gauntlet to those who wish to challenge us for the dragon throne. If you are a naturalist who has been observing dragonflies on or near other airports, let us know in the comments of this blogpost!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6_Sd7ObXpbMmIXitZSzwcq2VNuUostSlHuIh4VlIT0RmhvuvBfXaThIeGQGbvx1BcNr-RG7MqfL447dV0wSnJDPPaqHlQgd08LEzwkEZUqNer7GqSUX9HsyUGS5ZT7aR8TbaNKw_erim98lwQ7fZJheP7M-49KkFUNmo4QpkeQkfie9LDgHP0wRxE/s2609/willow%20emerald%20cropped.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1613" data-original-width="2609" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6_Sd7ObXpbMmIXitZSzwcq2VNuUostSlHuIh4VlIT0RmhvuvBfXaThIeGQGbvx1BcNr-RG7MqfL447dV0wSnJDPPaqHlQgd08LEzwkEZUqNer7GqSUX9HsyUGS5ZT7aR8TbaNKw_erim98lwQ7fZJheP7M-49KkFUNmo4QpkeQkfie9LDgHP0wRxE/w587-h363/willow%20emerald%20cropped.jpg" width="587" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Willow Emerald Damselfly <i>Chalcolestes viridis</i></div><p>Facing a warming climate, many dragonfly and damselfly species are changing their geographic range, with new species moving further inland from warmer coastal areas and others arriving from the continent. So far, we have recorded 23 different species of around our land-locked, but low-lying and pretty wet airport. That is six fewer than the best-performing Sussex Wildlife Trust nature reserve Rye Harbour (29 species). The nearby Knepp Wildlands site hit 23 species in around 2019, but they have surely passed that total now. </p><p>Bob Foreman from the Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre kindly provided me with the top ten league table for Sussex Wildlife Trust reserves. As you can see, we might be on par with the Ebernoe reserve for the moment:</p><div><div><div>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rye Harbour 29</div><div>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Burton Mill Pond 25</div><div>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Woods Mill 25</div><div>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Iping Common 24</div><div>5.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Old Lodge 24</div><div>6.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ebernoe 23</div><div>7.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Amberley Wildbrooks 22</div><div>8.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Peveensey Levels 19</div><div>9.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Filsham Reedbed 19</div><div>10.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Waltham Brooks 17</div></div></div><p>This summer just past I was repeating a baseline survey of all the waterways previously surveyed around Gatwick during 2013. We have gained a few new ponds since that last baseline, so I was really looking forward to getting stuck in and seeing how fortunes may have changed for our dragons. Results were a bit of a mixed bag, with only 20 different species observed (I was missing Ruddy Darter <i>Sympetrum sanguineum</i>, Golden-ringed Dragonfly <i>Cordulegaster boltonii</i> and Red-eyed Damselfly <i>Erythromma najas</i>). The only new record for the site has been Small Red-eyed Damselfly, and nothing particularly rare or unusual turned up except for a tantalising glimpse of Brilliant Emerald Dragonfly <i>Somatochlora metallica</i> (although there were plenty of similar-looking Downy Emerald Dragonflies about).</p><p>Here are a few of my highlights from the 2022 field season:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWrWf6M826oA1IwsKzfCmjzMQezf1Q4q1V_RWnivEPu_f9zaeVapuG4xUtDJADb7dtI0Sgqne6HFLJjdu3wqwjLqnhaIIOia_4MEoUFQxEx-nxNd8RJxyWNObYsJkhJFk1VzHgzlAKVtiQwCJ4p8IF2rfaSvtIK8-jOVshA9I0CkGKP_mmT9okXuJ6/s1284/downy2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="922" data-original-width="1284" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWrWf6M826oA1IwsKzfCmjzMQezf1Q4q1V_RWnivEPu_f9zaeVapuG4xUtDJADb7dtI0Sgqne6HFLJjdu3wqwjLqnhaIIOia_4MEoUFQxEx-nxNd8RJxyWNObYsJkhJFk1VzHgzlAKVtiQwCJ4p8IF2rfaSvtIK8-jOVshA9I0CkGKP_mmT9okXuJ6/w400-h288/downy2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Downy Emerald Dragonfly <i>Cordulia aenea</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjpDr9tgKoATr_89p3IkIlwZD-2MSn6gqB0aUBmXOZmJAiQz77dLuOtFObgMDVqpzQPLYPGnAG94eFmR2IQEdDAK2idu4azIeAe692eWfnQNcMZK1BkoApecuwxMHSHKEQSa-MybnZGVejYCjRF-WUD22DtfyPeT7ax4Y4H8L_z5aFGb0a-PoXSI9j/s2254/white%20legged%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1769" data-original-width="2254" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjpDr9tgKoATr_89p3IkIlwZD-2MSn6gqB0aUBmXOZmJAiQz77dLuOtFObgMDVqpzQPLYPGnAG94eFmR2IQEdDAK2idu4azIeAe692eWfnQNcMZK1BkoApecuwxMHSHKEQSa-MybnZGVejYCjRF-WUD22DtfyPeT7ax4Y4H8L_z5aFGb0a-PoXSI9j/w400-h314/white%20legged%202.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">White-legged Damselfly <i>Platycnemis pennipes</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy3WvLvs68TK-Q9wAjL9GpHJOQbfG7e6eJvzNCqlWpOGTXsy6BGqMbozQ2x5qdlqFFccYN3CE8eb_NvAjeyX20ljfl3s-Obgez8_4w1bzTykGXEQd7M4qvhqPopx6VFgkzVGIzBLHOE8XhRCxmCYoQj3dpHizKRAXpmRRmAsb5lnyBE8Y27fTqSfFa/s3037/Four-spotted%20Chaser1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1961" data-original-width="3037" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy3WvLvs68TK-Q9wAjL9GpHJOQbfG7e6eJvzNCqlWpOGTXsy6BGqMbozQ2x5qdlqFFccYN3CE8eb_NvAjeyX20ljfl3s-Obgez8_4w1bzTykGXEQd7M4qvhqPopx6VFgkzVGIzBLHOE8XhRCxmCYoQj3dpHizKRAXpmRRmAsb5lnyBE8Y27fTqSfFa/w400-h259/Four-spotted%20Chaser1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Four-spotted Chaser <i>Libellula quadrimaculata</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHgJo9u6nKd1LJYFeMzwyK1U8AYPO-gaIUomoMChyhJOjdz8S4pFN8LHBlym5T5TagpUrTQYowbU3xuB25LK88v7X3xC9WYNXoqLyIZ8qGQWerLKFMXvPnVmgmQV9X9Has757rEui-OUml7Iu4Fqu5qxH4gxKydl9Uxy37J2Wv28-I7frMbp3PtBMz/s3665/Small%20Red-eyed%20in%20cop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2520" data-original-width="3665" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHgJo9u6nKd1LJYFeMzwyK1U8AYPO-gaIUomoMChyhJOjdz8S4pFN8LHBlym5T5TagpUrTQYowbU3xuB25LK88v7X3xC9WYNXoqLyIZ8qGQWerLKFMXvPnVmgmQV9X9Has757rEui-OUml7Iu4Fqu5qxH4gxKydl9Uxy37J2Wv28-I7frMbp3PtBMz/w400-h275/Small%20Red-eyed%20in%20cop.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Small Red-eyed Damselfly <i>Erythromma viridulum</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBKFC5-2AVUXQGb6iQzLn2Q3XmSSaZ8ViMqACUBEkTCA3q4fuRFkBS9CcS7eBTOuuhsFaP-V4nvIym67IS7FrfJNqPlDqNt271J6x-fmAoxMmzsuoy8ieJoEx26BrPMibQJIgFq0uo_UnjVqySs8BRj0UcQmocCvs9miBt_UnaL_002Qr-_N5W8oJI/s3285/Black-tailed%20Skimmer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2541" data-original-width="3285" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBKFC5-2AVUXQGb6iQzLn2Q3XmSSaZ8ViMqACUBEkTCA3q4fuRFkBS9CcS7eBTOuuhsFaP-V4nvIym67IS7FrfJNqPlDqNt271J6x-fmAoxMmzsuoy8ieJoEx26BrPMibQJIgFq0uo_UnjVqySs8BRj0UcQmocCvs9miBt_UnaL_002Qr-_N5W8oJI/w400-h310/Black-tailed%20Skimmer.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Black-tailed Skimmer <i>Orthetrum cancellatum</i></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbCT2ggoRTEWqvM2w153DZZJtuD1QyHopKTQavBLgxlo9JWK9z1dzbaC3hqNnLKDhtp0hkWwU3Q4DrBrzqdmBPX-mTaAT9xra14zJ3JJKpSjs7IHhx4cQbdUNLttfD6c9dzGamLZtTNv_PwXVeUfwE5uYCoW2lZUmB4Pur9iA40zrgHxD4CExCxvNp/s1881/bb%20SCRUFFY.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1292" data-original-width="1881" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbCT2ggoRTEWqvM2w153DZZJtuD1QyHopKTQavBLgxlo9JWK9z1dzbaC3hqNnLKDhtp0hkWwU3Q4DrBrzqdmBPX-mTaAT9xra14zJ3JJKpSjs7IHhx4cQbdUNLttfD6c9dzGamLZtTNv_PwXVeUfwE5uYCoW2lZUmB4Pur9iA40zrgHxD4CExCxvNp/w400-h275/bb%20SCRUFFY.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Broad-bodied Chaser <i>Libellula depressa </i>looking the worse for wear</div><br /><div>Our Top 3 performing waterbodies during 2022:</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpPLjVlDx30Mrepqs4B5MMbAwXFZ5tgywalxCRn19KIcHT8knQmK-5mGGZXLBMbbqNyuXw9-KfpGkPZUjzer2RiP1n4FI0Yr1IXoEKusCnM1CRuh-K2PMviPlIsb3-PpSQRDhFp824DDBrgKRhBN1YEjilYb80nAUgr308uUhPvpfPwBeAubXaMx_e/s1210/Upper%20Mole%20stop%203.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="1210" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpPLjVlDx30Mrepqs4B5MMbAwXFZ5tgywalxCRn19KIcHT8knQmK-5mGGZXLBMbbqNyuXw9-KfpGkPZUjzer2RiP1n4FI0Yr1IXoEKusCnM1CRuh-K2PMviPlIsb3-PpSQRDhFp824DDBrgKRhBN1YEjilYb80nAUgr308uUhPvpfPwBeAubXaMx_e/w533-h299/Upper%20Mole%20stop%203.jpg" width="533" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The upstream section of the River Mole (16 species)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFDQz3DZfLL1zjrywQT-M_NHE1yBYSohN6YdMQwALm3CZzhDq72z9Bb0p8tGCZWj8OmwngbH3MGMaSKQ2l57lxZ0h63L_xr9QMZgkG6POLz67qqRDLtqKmAzEEJR7XhZvqhzM9sPxnRh4aZutt5ZCY3Yst9DXqBMoMTOGr2iiSxLMF7OE787QzlnSU/s847/LERL%20Pond%202%20facing%20east.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="847" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFDQz3DZfLL1zjrywQT-M_NHE1yBYSohN6YdMQwALm3CZzhDq72z9Bb0p8tGCZWj8OmwngbH3MGMaSKQ2l57lxZ0h63L_xr9QMZgkG6POLz67qqRDLtqKmAzEEJR7XhZvqhzM9sPxnRh4aZutt5ZCY3Yst9DXqBMoMTOGr2iiSxLMF7OE787QzlnSU/w535-h301/LERL%20Pond%202%20facing%20east.jpg" width="535" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Land East Pond 2 (the Brilliant and Downy Emerald pond) 13 species</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl18hx16QdhkMLzGaexxsuhLBM59FVoorkNHkkk14JlTHyX_ih1Ec_vfSkveOulVXyRpL8hGeY02HprfqBMvQqS8gDxNKrXV714e18LZBKEKiWvLsXdOdWPO1pg0hnEIE6Ed3-NNEu_KgC1XtIDK3zMVcMXdVarGohHg4_XJ9r7AtvidHa6rYPphZZ/s968/Pond%20F1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="968" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl18hx16QdhkMLzGaexxsuhLBM59FVoorkNHkkk14JlTHyX_ih1Ec_vfSkveOulVXyRpL8hGeY02HprfqBMvQqS8gDxNKrXV714e18LZBKEKiWvLsXdOdWPO1pg0hnEIE6Ed3-NNEu_KgC1XtIDK3zMVcMXdVarGohHg4_XJ9r7AtvidHa6rYPphZZ/w529-h298/Pond%20F1.jpg" width="529" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The northern bank of Pond F, the reservoir at the South Terminal (11 species)</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><div>Gatwick's current dragonfly list:</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY17xKBAw5E0MOjqlln6VrdTBQDFpmCAxeO5gE3ce84LEQTaeAc2LgZzZc7Vw74vUfPPa6g-7cTv_bOgAHkH87rtAOSJvzuWRzI6I5sG8zPeNH6Mq-mONikoMlpkny9LlZ6Ue5xKtSMV4RiBpo7tgs7qCvh_LwAVg4cTySrBKAX57elFdqc4Okclxp/s931/Gatwick%20dragonfly%20list.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="931" height="542" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY17xKBAw5E0MOjqlln6VrdTBQDFpmCAxeO5gE3ce84LEQTaeAc2LgZzZc7Vw74vUfPPa6g-7cTv_bOgAHkH87rtAOSJvzuWRzI6I5sG8zPeNH6Mq-mONikoMlpkny9LlZ6Ue5xKtSMV4RiBpo7tgs7qCvh_LwAVg4cTySrBKAX57elFdqc4Okclxp/w590-h542/Gatwick%20dragonfly%20list.jpg" width="590" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Rachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-58749532103342000992022-09-19T07:17:00.002-07:002022-09-19T11:59:10.755-07:00Rings of PowerWhen visiting ornithologist Jon Middleton remarked the airport biodiversity sites could be worth trialling for bird ringing, I thought that would be cool, wish I knew some bird ringers... It turned out I already did, I work with a few of them, I should have asked sooner, and they've been happy to help out! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSBae1tFQ6FNjIxOZ7ICbuSkjnBQgcW9hTEf7ThVGYY6_x66isS6ZyOu7PJNdSzo-zL_7kUKgm9BSGBsFKl1JCF1-v5eMycEgoyoChlEuG52DKun2giH5wNTfKz-FMlQKIy7VrVYtvckUICWZDVKrDIg8PYSMFVc68hVw0xs_q4ED0rp-FSjYeBAEu/s2886/wheat1.jpg" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1985" data-original-width="2886" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSBae1tFQ6FNjIxOZ7ICbuSkjnBQgcW9hTEf7ThVGYY6_x66isS6ZyOu7PJNdSzo-zL_7kUKgm9BSGBsFKl1JCF1-v5eMycEgoyoChlEuG52DKun2giH5wNTfKz-FMlQKIy7VrVYtvckUICWZDVKrDIg8PYSMFVc68hVw0xs_q4ED0rp-FSjYeBAEu/w640-h440/wheat1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Wheatear </b><i>Oenanthe oenanthe,</i> caught and ringed under license in Gatwick Airport's North West Zone </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The North West Zone at Gatwick is a mosaic of scrub, outgrown hedgerows and floodplain meadow, maturing nicely for the past 20+ years (all created during the River Mole diversion in the year 2000), with a block of ancient woodland in the mix. Gatwick has the added interesting element of urban and brownfield habitats at the interface of natural ones, resulting in a highly diverse mix of species, including small migrating birds visiting the sites at different times of the year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrqWJqKDDUFMgIqXB6MYPykmefF0t1pzfMGZF1yds_e0Y_qhXMHT7qi_LB6G6qASWh_6-JoTDUKzC9uz3l_QawlqVJW3dPMrBPfDKTZ27m-p82xU-LWnQ_Wjwlc9_Dzr-eeS47d3ndEMvkQRG6ueAGfAqDlZ6Fz4-C5cvdqyx27ct2bgLZulvuSOAR/s3848/nwz.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="3848" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrqWJqKDDUFMgIqXB6MYPykmefF0t1pzfMGZF1yds_e0Y_qhXMHT7qi_LB6G6qASWh_6-JoTDUKzC9uz3l_QawlqVJW3dPMrBPfDKTZ27m-p82xU-LWnQ_Wjwlc9_Dzr-eeS47d3ndEMvkQRG6ueAGfAqDlZ6Fz4-C5cvdqyx27ct2bgLZulvuSOAR/w640-h378/nwz.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The edge of Gatwick's North West Zone</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbdKwR3TKYMvr2khpIIirQy4qqKfYjZQwrxeDEpib_6PEClVncJnPPUOFzfAqRtufeMfldQgdiOgigH68LM_kP8C8kF6ciD7aZHyJJdUbbF-gw65FHn8hvb2HcuvBkThzAgZvYNEZcGpuqxqMyoFAy0FpbQntNZKBcspVRZpEvSjNQyQtqKnKFHmGq/s1447/NWZ1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="833" data-original-width="1447" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbdKwR3TKYMvr2khpIIirQy4qqKfYjZQwrxeDEpib_6PEClVncJnPPUOFzfAqRtufeMfldQgdiOgigH68LM_kP8C8kF6ciD7aZHyJJdUbbF-gw65FHn8hvb2HcuvBkThzAgZvYNEZcGpuqxqMyoFAy0FpbQntNZKBcspVRZpEvSjNQyQtqKnKFHmGq/w640-h368/NWZ1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQE9Exi42tBCWKl3_76WUWeug9nQ0mmf4U1rOLJLp9edgPBx48xkGwjnH78nFCcRI9d5S7b12L6tQeR75o3nNlNoHs0CHsWftYNZMJWDLhLr40t4hshp-VZFkqYBWwOhPNRVQnAa9dQiMMLD1SG2MZ6iL5e7JE-xHQ4lL_ZHT-PanDd4RFGrXhx95L/s3501/ride%20scything.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2213" data-original-width="3501" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQE9Exi42tBCWKl3_76WUWeug9nQ0mmf4U1rOLJLp9edgPBx48xkGwjnH78nFCcRI9d5S7b12L6tQeR75o3nNlNoHs0CHsWftYNZMJWDLhLr40t4hshp-VZFkqYBWwOhPNRVQnAa9dQiMMLD1SG2MZ6iL5e7JE-xHQ4lL_ZHT-PanDd4RFGrXhx95L/w640-h404/ride%20scything.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Scrub management with volunteers from the Gatwick Greenspace Partnership</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Monitoring birds has been integral to Gatwick's Biodiversity Action Plan since it began in 2012. Birds are a great indicator of ecosystem health, but are also particularly important here in the context of the airport and aircraft safety. Data from our ecological surveys helps us to understand what species are using our sites and how they are faring, so that we can better target habitat works to conserve them. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXWS5UEMsSVr1U71-zYlAX8VxtRpi2udXuY-KGMFORSvOtznGnj_lP079IlGoCFP6DCSYtHG0K-QxrSsKlZK5mYG7Kvq-qQ3DMNXIOkmACNYFg3B1iDGtAAsbfuTCsy-7pX903_SJgqRKFlvQJjJKvVc-2tKln-cnjJx9mY2QK_oDcSiV7OJibabR6/s2233/Great%20tit.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2233" data-original-width="1577" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXWS5UEMsSVr1U71-zYlAX8VxtRpi2udXuY-KGMFORSvOtznGnj_lP079IlGoCFP6DCSYtHG0K-QxrSsKlZK5mYG7Kvq-qQ3DMNXIOkmACNYFg3B1iDGtAAsbfuTCsy-7pX903_SJgqRKFlvQJjJKvVc-2tKln-cnjJx9mY2QK_oDcSiV7OJibabR6/w283-h400/Great%20tit.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A metal BTO ring being placed on the tarsus (the area between the ankle and knee) of a <b>Great Tit</b> <i>Parus major </i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Bird ringing is a very intensive survey method and is therefore treated very sensitively. It involves catching birds in order to take biological measurements, placing a uniquely coded ring on the bird's leg for future identification, and then re-releasing back where they were found. Obviously this can be stressful to the bird, and welfare must always come first in this work. The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) are the overseers of the UK <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing" target="_blank">Bird Ringing Scheme</a> and the rigorous licencing procedure. Training to become a fully permitted bird ringer takes a very long time, involving many hours of work and brutally early starts in the mornings! </div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidpHh1OQr1R4V5IZdmRkDXxUlUfA_Pz4Efc20FVdFvJEUBFGpepatNyfGjfBRB5yxNf73l_E0Hk4d5bkEfw5ayn_5IDuDN-viZHY3w5xpFIYCgzDhRIsWQc-zV_fi1biHMXGwjB7LiGVsV2da0A32EwnLsZPPVOlh5sCgpioCl8ESlZKRm-kdzGk3V/s2294/ringing%20group.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1358" data-original-width="2294" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidpHh1OQr1R4V5IZdmRkDXxUlUfA_Pz4Efc20FVdFvJEUBFGpepatNyfGjfBRB5yxNf73l_E0Hk4d5bkEfw5ayn_5IDuDN-viZHY3w5xpFIYCgzDhRIsWQc-zV_fi1biHMXGwjB7LiGVsV2da0A32EwnLsZPPVOlh5sCgpioCl8ESlZKRm-kdzGk3V/w640-h378/ringing%20group.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Trainee bird ringers at Gatwick with Jon Middleton (right)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Information gathered from bird ringing is extremely eye-opening, such as the different species and numbers using a site, which is not necessarily picked up during our standard field-observation bird surveys. Historically, ringing work has helped to confirm where certain birds go from the UK during winter (as far as sub-Saharan Africa!!). These days we are learning more about different migration routes, changing distributions of species and ongoing impacts from habitat loss, hunting and climate change. It is important that we collect data from more common species as well as those already known to be in decline, as we can't be sure how any species may fare in the future. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Examples of other information collected through the ringing scheme:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><ul><li>Ages</li><li>Survival rates*</li><li>Health/condition</li><li>Breeding success (by the year ratio of captured youngsters to adults)</li><li>Dispersal locations and distances</li><li>Phenology (life cycle timings)</li><li>Population trends</li></ul><o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">* Advances in statistical techniques have allowed survival to be calculated from recaptures of previously ringed birds. The more birds ringed, the better the chance of recovering data, all of which will be vitally important for future bird conservation. </p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfj381thCs5C63m5ZLXkF0gw1Nj1jWPQpNpyf1Hgr3cRbXf65J9K4JwV7aO_9zTu1v770kTyIroRNddQOJVc27BP4zWdTQDrKJmonahDB2ghtsTyNQt-d7HYsLkm1wuSDC5rj3pnQWy7g3tJPbrPBIDi-Ju1NAnHGiqhVJoA_RVqHTfX_ZWqtEFdK1/s3088/20220726_091724.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="3088" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfj381thCs5C63m5ZLXkF0gw1Nj1jWPQpNpyf1Hgr3cRbXf65J9K4JwV7aO_9zTu1v770kTyIroRNddQOJVc27BP4zWdTQDrKJmonahDB2ghtsTyNQt-d7HYsLkm1wuSDC5rj3pnQWy7g3tJPbrPBIDi-Ju1NAnHGiqhVJoA_RVqHTfX_ZWqtEFdK1/w640-h470/20220726_091724.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Airport security officer Trevor receives a demonstration from licensed bird ringer Stuart Card</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One of the recent successes for our biodiversity project has been the arrival of breeding Nightingales at Gatwick, with the first confirmed modern record in 2016.<span> A</span> male Nightingale ringed at the Knepp Wildlands project during August 2020 was found holding a breeding <span style="text-align: center;">territory at Gatwick during 2021, and 'Dave' has been heard singing away again during summer of 2022.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1qhK5LPrIEsXbk8BbxidGOUZJcftwZTqmaFh63Os1mre3jRsUMOj4aulHHi6Odor4XWW4kDCnonhuTi4CCIEwc1cXGYuGFM3xin-eXWTholtDMdm0wvNkmYTjHpbVRAaZF91_cXFfJCOvhsSd3e0WGY4-0LLK3OV05JHn3hN7OWglkwYmwAptzbMO/s1956/NG%20july%2022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1956" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1qhK5LPrIEsXbk8BbxidGOUZJcftwZTqmaFh63Os1mre3jRsUMOj4aulHHi6Odor4XWW4kDCnonhuTi4CCIEwc1cXGYuGFM3xin-eXWTholtDMdm0wvNkmYTjHpbVRAaZF91_cXFfJCOvhsSd3e0WGY4-0LLK3OV05JHn3hN7OWglkwYmwAptzbMO/w306-h400/NG%20july%2022.jpg" width="306" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One of two <b>Nightingales</b> <i>Luscinia megarhynchos</i> ringed at Gatwick this year. July 2022</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I am hugely grateful to Jon, Stuart and Jake for donating their valuable time and energy in getting this exciting new project underway. Below are some highlights of what we have found so far, and we hope to see more species added to the list as time goes on. Watch this space!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh04I2Ye1RgOMLC3BT3YbCnMh1uuTpLayoJgjxDSo13yh19BpqaAbfAMAeCQO3XTW5gkDIqgWbECmKRxBshBvfzR74ZVpMpbqRNKCeGBJ40CpeKvsC0oGmnHSBN6Uus2DhlNKMDU6vD8AkE5DoLm8tQ-hGRvdvqIaidWascqAjjX_J_3kEC4fBm89je/s2596/Atlantic%20ringed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2596" data-original-width="1784" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh04I2Ye1RgOMLC3BT3YbCnMh1uuTpLayoJgjxDSo13yh19BpqaAbfAMAeCQO3XTW5gkDIqgWbECmKRxBshBvfzR74ZVpMpbqRNKCeGBJ40CpeKvsC0oGmnHSBN6Uus2DhlNKMDU6vD8AkE5DoLm8tQ-hGRvdvqIaidWascqAjjX_J_3kEC4fBm89je/w275-h400/Atlantic%20ringed.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Black Redstart</b> <i>Phoenicurus ochruros</i> (male), a rare breeding species in the UK. September 2022</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii0yMTH6wrlzhrm8KLJWeW8DoPpO96cA_q7Zce7Kg7e5WZQmO7Rx4GsUOycTOKDD_Wipeuf0iCpywTFbfZB6TAlT1B1WaHjzg49QN97XQlddNZKHe0T0ixhkOIG1m_GmEzWLfCHgbJUdGtldTrPcPSngiiXVwMX8luC4SjcAChITiWP1dMPrN_dBtI/s2681/20220917_103255.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2681" data-original-width="1788" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii0yMTH6wrlzhrm8KLJWeW8DoPpO96cA_q7Zce7Kg7e5WZQmO7Rx4GsUOycTOKDD_Wipeuf0iCpywTFbfZB6TAlT1B1WaHjzg49QN97XQlddNZKHe0T0ixhkOIG1m_GmEzWLfCHgbJUdGtldTrPcPSngiiXVwMX8luC4SjcAChITiWP1dMPrN_dBtI/w266-h400/20220917_103255.jpg" width="266" /></a></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Marsh Tit</b> <i>Poecile palustris</i>, September 2022</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6I4PQ9ihfvImCcmCwyqEXIY6onZtb5mA9rse2o2tRZGFibrQWpmLhlmCPUf_O_cM-A6xvTpLUTlP-zEc321PY2s8H2ea3ZoHqcZkQxyDdaAWVVnNVRpCl9olg64rPxJFo4kU-pKVsGRBLKB2i7y1sqVf9PEYXivHgA10_QfkiSbj47DQ1JlAbNz1-/s1909/20220917_112434.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1909" data-original-width="1553" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6I4PQ9ihfvImCcmCwyqEXIY6onZtb5mA9rse2o2tRZGFibrQWpmLhlmCPUf_O_cM-A6xvTpLUTlP-zEc321PY2s8H2ea3ZoHqcZkQxyDdaAWVVnNVRpCl9olg64rPxJFo4kU-pKVsGRBLKB2i7y1sqVf9PEYXivHgA10_QfkiSbj47DQ1JlAbNz1-/w325-h400/20220917_112434.jpg" width="325" /></a></div><b>Sedge Warbler </b><i>Acrocephalus schoenobaenus</i>, September 2022<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirR1_fY3S3OW1UAGVPlsYeK8C3vbvMc8PioSlMUOaa9KwoZn6U_39CaljeSLJqeZPalQXrK3HnsetmkJifXwetfB2mLQtMoe5Ug-5xOrm52ltJOUexFLY7woQg0KaNuT6P3cJjO0ZHZ7aqr2h-CBLpyN_XjMn5mOP28ni8Iv7zO_irwQ6-D4X3P_p_/s2033/20220901_175335.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2033" data-original-width="1795" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirR1_fY3S3OW1UAGVPlsYeK8C3vbvMc8PioSlMUOaa9KwoZn6U_39CaljeSLJqeZPalQXrK3HnsetmkJifXwetfB2mLQtMoe5Ug-5xOrm52ltJOUexFLY7woQg0KaNuT6P3cJjO0ZHZ7aqr2h-CBLpyN_XjMn5mOP28ni8Iv7zO_irwQ6-D4X3P_p_/w354-h400/20220901_175335.jpg" width="354" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Wheatear</b> <i>Oenanthe oenanthe</i>, August 2022</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdJTH3ZkChsYizQD8dmWjTL__RHJey5uqCPeBjRDU5sfSegF368nCHKjcoyJg57ZWKcSp1BmBwAvCEQjGuFDzIQYz07j0bfwPcXc-I2n2pZTuxpYsf6AkH-VoZsqtUiYFpsJChNoM7XCAz6GYIyR633BLTmU-7j5fxTIjJc6NRKltSfHipManLYNer/s2103/20220915_213949.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1475" data-original-width="2103" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdJTH3ZkChsYizQD8dmWjTL__RHJey5uqCPeBjRDU5sfSegF368nCHKjcoyJg57ZWKcSp1BmBwAvCEQjGuFDzIQYz07j0bfwPcXc-I2n2pZTuxpYsf6AkH-VoZsqtUiYFpsJChNoM7XCAz6GYIyR633BLTmU-7j5fxTIjJc6NRKltSfHipManLYNer/w400-h280/20220915_213949.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Redstart</b> <i>Phoenicurus phoenicurus</i>, September 2022</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ringed species at Gatwick so far:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Black Redstart <i>Phoenicurus ochruros</i> (Amber listed, Schedule 1)</li><li>Blackbird <i>Turdus merula</i><span style="white-space: pre;"> <br /></span></li><li>Blackcap<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>Sylvia atricapilla</i><span style="white-space: pre;"> <br /></span></li><li>Blue Tit <i>Cyanistes caeruleus</i><span style="white-space: pre;"> <br /></span></li><li>Bullfinch<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>Pyrrhula pyrrhula </i>(Amber listed)</li><li>Chiffchaff <i>Phylloscopus collybita</i></li><li>Dunnock <i style="font-family: inherit;">Prunella modularis </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Amber listed)</span></li><li>Great Tit<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>Parus major</i><span style="white-space: pre;"> <br /></span></li><li>Green Woodpecker<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>Picus viridis</i><span style="white-space: pre;"> <br /></span></li><li>Goldcrest <i>Regulus regulus</i><span style="white-space: pre;"> <br /></span></li><li>Goldfinch <i>Carduelis carduelis</i><span style="white-space: pre;"> <br /></span></li><li>Lesser Whitethroat<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>Curruca curruca</i><span style="white-space: pre;"> <br /></span></li><li>Long-tailed Tit <i>Aegithalos caudatus</i><span style="white-space: pre;"> <br /></span></li><li>Marsh Tit <i>Poecile palustris </i>(Red listed)</li><li>Nightingale <i>Luscinia megarhynchos</i> (Red listed)</li><li>Redstart <i>Phoenicurus phoenicurus</i> (Amber listed)</li><li>Reed Warbler <i>Acrocephalus scirpaceus</i><span style="white-space: pre;"> <br /></span></li><li>Robin <i>Erithacus rubecula</i><span style="white-space: pre;"> <br /></span></li><li>Sedge Warbler <i>Acrocephalus schoenobaenus </i>(Amber listed)</li><li>Song Thrush <i>Turdus philomelos (</i>Amber listed)</li><li>Willow Warbler <i>Phylloscopus trochilus</i> (Amber listed)</li><li>Wheatear <i>Oenanthe oenanthe </i>(Amber listed)</li><li>Whitethroat <i>Curruca communis </i>(Amber listed)</li><li>Wren <i>Troglodytes troglodytes</i> (Amber listed)</li></ul></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Rings around the world: More on the Nightingales found at Gatwick Airport:</div><div><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="http://biodiversitygatwick.blogspot.com/2021/07/rings-around-world.html">http://biodiversitygatwick.blogspot.com/2021/07/rings-around-world.html</a> </span></div></div>Rachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-18837581262785915332022-03-15T08:18:00.001-07:002023-11-09T07:13:53.565-08:00Gatwick Airport's Annual Biodiversity Review 2021<p>We are pleased to publish Gatwick Airport's Biodiversity Annual Review for 2021, containing more species highlights and conserved habitats than ever before! It was a significant year for Nightingales which are featured on the front cover, as well as pages 26, 34 and 36 of the report.</p><p>A huge thank you again to everyone who contributed their time and efforts for the project. </p><p><a href="https://www.gatwickairport.com/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-Gatwick-Library/default/dw30174b68/images/Corporate-PDFs/Sustainability/Biodiversity-reports/Biodiversity_Annual_Review_2021.pdf" target="_blank"><b>Gatwick Airport Annual Biodiversity Review 2021</b></a><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKLELk13X57NX3XQi0d127ih29AZLQvFmeJzE_x-FqcOhkt82o3d1Sf7tE8GPQAsLyMAIsVfql9zqEYCVqRRklDQjl3LPnJtNwJjYbluV0097pWEY-Cpf2JiU1VLf33InReC2a9p3oH644pFgKQcdumoCxogdxz2MD9NNvcIxNhqHeKRBsC46Uv7IS=s744" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="527" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKLELk13X57NX3XQi0d127ih29AZLQvFmeJzE_x-FqcOhkt82o3d1Sf7tE8GPQAsLyMAIsVfql9zqEYCVqRRklDQjl3LPnJtNwJjYbluV0097pWEY-Cpf2JiU1VLf33InReC2a9p3oH644pFgKQcdumoCxogdxz2MD9NNvcIxNhqHeKRBsC46Uv7IS=w454-h640" width="454" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Rachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-61883123778140116522021-12-13T04:51:00.005-08:002021-12-13T05:26:26.041-08:00Small mammals of GatwickRecently published research by the <a href="https://www.mammal.org.uk/2021/11/new-research-shows-alarming-decline-in-small-mammals-in-the-uk/" target="_blank">Mammal Society</a> has revealed some very worrying news; the UK's small mammals are not faring as well as we thought. Species previously not known to be at risk, including Weasels, Stoats and even our seemingly ubiquitous voles and shrews, are suffering long-term declines and are in need of conservation action. It is now estimated that 1 in 4 species in the UK are in real danger from extinction.<div><br /></div><div>We have known for decades that UK landscapes are highly pressured, nature-depleted places in which to live, but the scale of the problem is still coming to light. Small mammals are important, and usually abundant, parts of natural ecosystems. Their loss will impact our habitat dynamics, ecosystem stability and populations of other wildlife which depend on them. <br /><div><div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #11100f;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0dnSxq-6qo2vyXzf1FXchrz1JoQIQxav4fDMoQVjeW3Rbr0PrwvWOXHyKP07bMT670ZJOy-yEiR4Ji_63-ztAuZAGcIAHMV4WiqFc_mfl0bsZzb7dTEopCehNDu2PxdNK5rjP32Y3Jts/s1125/UK+mammal+decline+2021.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="796" height="757" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0dnSxq-6qo2vyXzf1FXchrz1JoQIQxav4fDMoQVjeW3Rbr0PrwvWOXHyKP07bMT670ZJOy-yEiR4Ji_63-ztAuZAGcIAHMV4WiqFc_mfl0bsZzb7dTEopCehNDu2PxdNK5rjP32Y3Jts/w536-h757/UK+mammal+decline+2021.jpg" width="536" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Publication by the <a href="https://www.mammal.org.uk/" target="_blank">Mammal Society</a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Intensive management or development of land leading to the disappearance of long, naturalistic areas of vegetation which these species need has taken its toll. We are fortunate that buffer land around an</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> airport can provide resources for a wide range of small mammals: Harvest Mice, Hazel Dormice, Weasels, Stoats, Common and Pygmy Shrews, Field and Bank Voles, Yellow-necked and Wood Mice have all been confirmed on our sites. We have also identified opportunities outside of these areas, with a new road-verge management regime providing those all important long-grass areas.</span></div></span></div><div><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have been playing with some new lens attachments for trail cameras, targeting better close-ups of small wildlife. I</span> set up a Browning trail camera on an old log pile within our best scrub and grassland, which looked to be a hub of activity due to all the niches and crevices. It is always fascinating to observe different species interacting with each other. A<span style="font-family: inherit;">fter trawling through a lot of footage, the results are in; I can officially and scientifically state that all small mammal species are Very Cute.</span></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div>If you happen to own or manage a very manicured piece of grassland, then perhaps think about setting aside some longer grass areas, particularly at the base of shrubs, trees and hedgerows. You could just mow your patch once a year in early spring, before the wildflower species get going. Collecting up the cuttings and leaving in a pile in a corner is very beneficial to insects, mammals and reptiles too.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks for reading... here are a few Gatwick Bank Voles, mice and shrews for your enjoyment.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VACJ-oUxIK8" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div>Rachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-13456599282784104052021-09-16T23:05:00.005-07:002021-09-16T23:08:29.935-07:00Long-horned flights<p> A brief update on Gatwick's colonies of Long-horned Bees (<i>Eucera longicornis</i>) during the 2021 field season.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="474" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JQergsN7b-Y" width="571" youtube-src-id="JQergsN7b-Y"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>Rachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-58968679295204238362021-07-01T10:09:00.006-07:002021-07-01T11:51:58.660-07:00Rings around the world<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisdJqCt_z8MQzh2qafyIgaoeoJx_w8qVN3ixUVUXTT8mcqBKhsDCY-uXgm9QbNb5d_ushWrBeOhyq1_l4WIfwExmrhA5QVrH-clZnYL5oxjt_B3_bup-PdnhDLGZigP1CvOY9FYfkr7tA/s943/Nightingale+Dean.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="686" data-original-width="943" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisdJqCt_z8MQzh2qafyIgaoeoJx_w8qVN3ixUVUXTT8mcqBKhsDCY-uXgm9QbNb5d_ushWrBeOhyq1_l4WIfwExmrhA5QVrH-clZnYL5oxjt_B3_bup-PdnhDLGZigP1CvOY9FYfkr7tA/w454-h330/Nightingale+Dean.jpg" width="454" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Nightingale at Gatwick Airport (Photo by Dean Samsudin, 2020)</div><p>Back in May 2016, myself and volunteer Donald were carrying out a reptile survey in the North West Zone when a sudden burst of bird song erupted near my head; a Nightingale was the last thing I'd expected to hear that day! This is a real stand-out moment from my time at Gatwick. I nipped back that same evening to make a recording (this being back in the era of a busy night-time airfield). Ambient noise didn't put this energetic songster off...</p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YJ7WYS7o5x8" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> </p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Sound only clip (no image)</p><p>Nightingales arrive in the UK around late April, having migrated all the way from their overwintering sites in Africa. Checking Gatwick's pan-species list, there are few previous records of Nightingale within the airport boundary. It seemed in 1987 the Hilton Hotel car park (around 3km from the current spot) contained some good scrub habitat which was suitable for their breeding, however in 2021 this area is now a stand of semi-mature trees.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaSBYi2KG9Cf9nQ3z4-r3C6LVIYGfISVpcbhGwxL66f4Y6fOCa-67j4iBdFW_UswOLPnr_P7ihXRz9R4h0kEwlXvZh7K7FhmYYgBFEgNaAHeVSYGTcD-Lszrd1Iyq1HaXyaSl7w6b_lcY/s1657/n+capture.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="1657" height="86" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaSBYi2KG9Cf9nQ3z4-r3C6LVIYGfISVpcbhGwxL66f4Y6fOCa-67j4iBdFW_UswOLPnr_P7ihXRz9R4h0kEwlXvZh7K7FhmYYgBFEgNaAHeVSYGTcD-Lszrd1Iyq1HaXyaSl7w6b_lcY/w640-h86/n+capture.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p>Corridors of good quality habitat are important for dispersing wildlife, especially for highly mobile species such as migrating birds. The River Mole diversion project was completed in the year 2000, resulting over 20 years later in a 3.5km l<span style="text-align: center;">ength of meandering floodplain meadow, bordered by sloping species-rich grassland, graduating into scrub and mature woodland. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho7KjReNGOZgvQjb0E0BecqqyUWUwdSPXlj8vUszYXCbbjldPNME08m2HcxBH0rR9rUM-CLlHaasLpsitXyhhZrGPktMqRJOeD2k1sQlaXibp_edpDs-cpwQn6ZClarfgA-LwgVE5RvPQ/s2048/NWZ+new+map+2018.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1354" data-original-width="2048" height="387" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho7KjReNGOZgvQjb0E0BecqqyUWUwdSPXlj8vUszYXCbbjldPNME08m2HcxBH0rR9rUM-CLlHaasLpsitXyhhZrGPktMqRJOeD2k1sQlaXibp_edpDs-cpwQn6ZClarfgA-LwgVE5RvPQ/w581-h387/NWZ+new+map+2018.jpg" width="581" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">North West Zone biodiversity area</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Since that record in 2016, I've heard a Nightingale in the same spot on the River Mole 5 years out of 6; could it be the same bird returning each summer? Another male then set up territory along the River Mole in 2020, about 1km further downstream. This year they've both remained on site late into summer, therefore are very likely breeding. Two Nightingales on one reserve doesn't make a population, but along with increasing numbers of Song Thrush and summer-visiting warbler territories, it could indicate that our scrub and grassland mosaic is coming into peak condition.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUk5A6iRP9Bjd_MPtXGfItbjxaLFF8t7uXFOIGHxqt9JSSyzWY8CvLLFhEVP4Y7NniGJr3thm44sN2tW4ZI2f-RkH1NYB8CeGnJ-KdiUOhfSkm3cuL9xKSth5n99Ps1VSj8hxx5-X8Qgw/s2048/River+Mole+July+2016.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUk5A6iRP9Bjd_MPtXGfItbjxaLFF8t7uXFOIGHxqt9JSSyzWY8CvLLFhEVP4Y7NniGJr3thm44sN2tW4ZI2f-RkH1NYB8CeGnJ-KdiUOhfSkm3cuL9xKSth5n99Ps1VSj8hxx5-X8Qgw/w640-h358/River+Mole+July+2016.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">River Mole corridor, July 2016</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Our biodiversity areas are only a short stint away from the Knepp Rewilding project, itself a large 1,400ha estate of grassland, wetland and scrub, 22km away as the Nightingale flies (for comparison our NWZ site is only around 40ha). It also contains a heck of a lot of Nightingales. Anecdotally, this red-listed species seems to be having a few good years, with other additional sites popping up nearby. Could this be an overflow of birds fledging at Knepp? When local wildlife watcher Dean alerted us that the second Nightingale was sporting a silver ring on its leg this year, it meant we could possibly find this out...</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRy8hFm_tsUAlz8jwh_aMsaYnrMpKre_xzImFRQIvtJXm-x-Hfj5NsaXPpO3e97J2SObInxt8lg8d1BOwy-Ix2zjakBzoNWo0HeI6lRDlxwCkpTrx3_JZCTfHDQ9mnozmkiZCMIPGfSN8/s2048/20210609_211842.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRy8hFm_tsUAlz8jwh_aMsaYnrMpKre_xzImFRQIvtJXm-x-Hfj5NsaXPpO3e97J2SObInxt8lg8d1BOwy-Ix2zjakBzoNWo0HeI6lRDlxwCkpTrx3_JZCTfHDQ9mnozmkiZCMIPGfSN8/w574-h323/20210609_211842.jpg" width="574" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Penny Green in the River Mole grasslands</div><p>The bird ringing scheme, overseen by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), gathers data on the survival, productivity and movements of birds, which is important in understanding why populations are changing. Recovered rings have told some pretty surprising things over the years, causing our estimates of wild bird life-spans and travel distances to be revised. It is an intensive undertaking which involves a lot of special training. Fortunately several of the ecologists we work with happen to be licenced bird ringers!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTwYYs3vksi9RRcrn5fQ6CCpLn5ERA4na-HIrrwnNB06bQ_fHM6yR3rumOUVV75wZ33isPb97AQcntU57vJ8RkTrdRlYlaT8n2hozWH_EWGOEYJje3elqdZCU1EMlFWCWprfzZKfG1eGM/s2048/20210527_195154.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTwYYs3vksi9RRcrn5fQ6CCpLn5ERA4na-HIrrwnNB06bQ_fHM6yR3rumOUVV75wZ33isPb97AQcntU57vJ8RkTrdRlYlaT8n2hozWH_EWGOEYJje3elqdZCU1EMlFWCWprfzZKfG1eGM/w562-h316/20210527_195154.jpg" width="562" /></a></div><br />Jon Middleton is an aviation ornithologist for Birdstrike Management Ltd, who visits Gatwick Airport as a consultant several times a year. In his spare time, Jon is an avid bird ringer and after hearing about our two Nightingale territories, he offered his help with Nightingale Territory 1; the original, un-ringed male.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVVE7TTp_fYMcdC5FN6CHlSOtCg1-YNP8F8Ydkz2iq9tvLQTn82ZByJD5di_3AFE-pYj0zfI0pOow71Urq1sJt677m-TCBq2lrvqJU8LRj4GRLhr2xb9IFhsDJoU6DBwANSntxGe_hzpo/s2048/20210527_211634.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVVE7TTp_fYMcdC5FN6CHlSOtCg1-YNP8F8Ydkz2iq9tvLQTn82ZByJD5di_3AFE-pYj0zfI0pOow71Urq1sJt677m-TCBq2lrvqJU8LRj4GRLhr2xb9IFhsDJoU6DBwANSntxGe_hzpo/w566-h318/20210527_211634.jpg" width="566" /></a></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Just as the night was drawing in, we had success in our single mist net; a male Nightingale caught and gently handled by Jon. This happened to be Jon's first time with this species in the hand, so it was a double celebration. The first ever Nightingale to be rung at Gatwick Airport!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijL18urXQ-_ewhmVdW_KeGu277a4TwtBsIBN_d1M0HenObXkBCnG70Vm616rqJ6OLew4AKxyFsIuMTmabpAGPi3k02Batt7cQKD0VzUt4Xnuexn4gtM_lsN_3NUlIdfDdxZroD8-UysaY/s2048/20210527_214648.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijL18urXQ-_ewhmVdW_KeGu277a4TwtBsIBN_d1M0HenObXkBCnG70Vm616rqJ6OLew4AKxyFsIuMTmabpAGPi3k02Batt7cQKD0VzUt4Xnuexn4gtM_lsN_3NUlIdfDdxZroD8-UysaY/w456-h256/20210527_214648.jpg" width="456" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg25RSmhjoTXpkvkbC2ncpw5lSAumLb57yrKQGr5cWoJamNsOp8I9c_qQFsWse6UNVcBEWhSf1oyFdxZBM56BiMVuqq2PhX1m2Kppb8mDTR3VCN5XnJXYtmXfCBDx4QY-vnmUdc1cxNMRo/s2048/20210527_214905.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1457" data-original-width="2048" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg25RSmhjoTXpkvkbC2ncpw5lSAumLb57yrKQGr5cWoJamNsOp8I9c_qQFsWse6UNVcBEWhSf1oyFdxZBM56BiMVuqq2PhX1m2Kppb8mDTR3VCN5XnJXYtmXfCBDx4QY-vnmUdc1cxNMRo/w462-h330/20210527_214905.jpg" width="462" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivXoGj8Xi6frXyT8558kE4mEJ6i0NNesuAy48ZKmvua9RlRk8fV3B8d-PMaf4c0DqEh_xf3hOKnnCzGsujqUY6rZDajDioLmAtfBitdXscXk18kb0r8ReXf_oaz5PxTUwETZJYQpECPLI/s2048/ng3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1359" data-original-width="2048" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivXoGj8Xi6frXyT8558kE4mEJ6i0NNesuAy48ZKmvua9RlRk8fV3B8d-PMaf4c0DqEh_xf3hOKnnCzGsujqUY6rZDajDioLmAtfBitdXscXk18kb0r8ReXf_oaz5PxTUwETZJYQpECPLI/w472-h312/ng3.jpg" width="472" /></a></div><br /></div>A few nights later, it was the turn of another crack team: Penny Green the Knepp Estate ecologist and her partner Dave, who were keen to capture the second male and check the ring reference number. It was a more intrepid route on that evening, setting up our mist net at Nightingale Territory 2...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWrBqNfIbmk8nq0CVpAJeRHvXoteuHUMWxh8TgaoKwNHyOuhZ05iU_foLsRRf4rhlJhq8dvx9TVZvsrcvyUd3iJ3Gp879zxfGI53aEsxykdXHohWISOMyHT8EbLGZYNv5QNLMSNu63MbA/s1600/IMG-20210612-WA0026.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1600" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWrBqNfIbmk8nq0CVpAJeRHvXoteuHUMWxh8TgaoKwNHyOuhZ05iU_foLsRRf4rhlJhq8dvx9TVZvsrcvyUd3iJ3Gp879zxfGI53aEsxykdXHohWISOMyHT8EbLGZYNv5QNLMSNu63MbA/w640-h288/IMG-20210612-WA0026.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo by Dave Green</div></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi44PeZvm7rHQx5ZVrTv1ZbYT10UMEnKGhtkhf7uoKgM-G_RocizZO95mmOUtOHihCnrU8XABOyAHiCwXUdQnCLZ4KomhO0lG7v5khoArukyA4wuUo1mXKNxWHm-1E2lKGO1TFpqMfMII0/s2048/20210609_205618.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi44PeZvm7rHQx5ZVrTv1ZbYT10UMEnKGhtkhf7uoKgM-G_RocizZO95mmOUtOHihCnrU8XABOyAHiCwXUdQnCLZ4KomhO0lG7v5khoArukyA4wuUo1mXKNxWHm-1E2lKGO1TFpqMfMII0/w640-h360/20210609_205618.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Success came once again just as it was growing dark, exactly as predicted by Penny and Dave!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu2Gn2nkmalZC9FTl10WYu9VeVOAU8VXAiddZz_KDyE4JQznuTq4TS2ALI9xa6y2QgYoGx9hx4Cfc0Zkp3bPJ0k1QbrMwJtqeG7z4l5BGiLSMZw2Dsil-aw_ZnCGbwtl5b68cZ05PC5wk/s2048/20210609_214514.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu2Gn2nkmalZC9FTl10WYu9VeVOAU8VXAiddZz_KDyE4JQznuTq4TS2ALI9xa6y2QgYoGx9hx4Cfc0Zkp3bPJ0k1QbrMwJtqeG7z4l5BGiLSMZw2Dsil-aw_ZnCGbwtl5b68cZ05PC5wk/w640-h360/20210609_214514.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>With the bird in the hand, Dave could clearly see the silver ring. The priority was to note down the reference number, before taking additional measurements for biometric data...</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBSEl-iyd3LHgvX7Fd2OEeymEEGhqO0XsilzXdldz0bIjf_kzWJAwjkrDAvo6hnQaVIxVDfxF2S41Hk1pjgTMGdy6T5tEIFSdhzJf3GyLCeKX_DjDAkuh8RdfXnqPCOeQ35dlGhN7xN_U/s2048/20210609_214433.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBSEl-iyd3LHgvX7Fd2OEeymEEGhqO0XsilzXdldz0bIjf_kzWJAwjkrDAvo6hnQaVIxVDfxF2S41Hk1pjgTMGdy6T5tEIFSdhzJf3GyLCeKX_DjDAkuh8RdfXnqPCOeQ35dlGhN7xN_U/w640-h360/20210609_214433.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Male being checked for breeding condition</div><div><br /></div><div>An incredibly gratifying moment was when Penny checked the Knepp ring numbers from last year; this is a match for their records! In fact, this guy was rung by Dave himself in August 2020. Having this information confirmed is super high value, showing how these birds use sites across Sussex for breeding as well as migration stop-overs. As Penny put it, this is a fantastic link between our two projects.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXmkVmijQSm-UmqmdiwjHmQzPVLUADAbRlQ2OWY3E7FuF_5pIROxYA54Oh66wy8sfGH3xFpdCKQJV0JpbsBf5icWkpg_8oWv9TJ2zjp8OQRV4WL2nS9OcggCefEGj_eoqUb0CX0yaFZFA/s1349/ng2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="995" data-original-width="1349" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXmkVmijQSm-UmqmdiwjHmQzPVLUADAbRlQ2OWY3E7FuF_5pIROxYA54Oh66wy8sfGH3xFpdCKQJV0JpbsBf5icWkpg_8oWv9TJ2zjp8OQRV4WL2nS9OcggCefEGj_eoqUb0CX0yaFZFA/w474-h350/ng2.jpg" width="474" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A check of wing length and plumage condition</div><div><br /></div>What a beauty....<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVvlN6vBQ7HDzw6BK9tuTIJdFOmnlKGEfE66SiBpjRAiQXX2_uSCV6GVbGKj9iOVKxvf3kpRj9bVrrNCoSjn2YM2WTgm3raXq6qkFtk5-4ZejyqOoEqJGLhRMhQCObJFSv4984PxCaqhU/s1200/NG.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="707" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVvlN6vBQ7HDzw6BK9tuTIJdFOmnlKGEfE66SiBpjRAiQXX2_uSCV6GVbGKj9iOVKxvf3kpRj9bVrrNCoSjn2YM2WTgm3raXq6qkFtk5-4ZejyqOoEqJGLhRMhQCObJFSv4984PxCaqhU/w378-h640/NG.jpg" width="378" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A Knepp-rung Nightingale on the River Mole at Gatwick (photo by Penny Green)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjezwZWQfgfNUXHzmYNmBUSsdyH9ZPR2kR5EUFYRpvKpAQGwJq7yuu8TgAtoDm3URDORkkQXvNC40jm123-jVx7tE7x0G7DEvIzRaJzm-9U0I74HIfwqSjl9YJbjdSpQGL3DdYqnForxj8/s2048/Lime+hawk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1285" data-original-width="2048" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjezwZWQfgfNUXHzmYNmBUSsdyH9ZPR2kR5EUFYRpvKpAQGwJq7yuu8TgAtoDm3URDORkkQXvNC40jm123-jVx7tE7x0G7DEvIzRaJzm-9U0I74HIfwqSjl9YJbjdSpQGL3DdYqnForxj8/w400-h251/Lime+hawk.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">A bonus Lime Hawkmoth extracted from the mist net</div><div><br /></div><div>Two Nightingales, a luxury pack of chocolate digestives, and a group of very happy ecologists at Gatwick Airport on two nights in June.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLzgWU6y59KA8P78QrLMDWvlZZYQpdRjF6gCKnqnWC30-diJm9rXWHxRR9Or7-3_wXF8epx1kUwqrfzmYLGACd-27H_SypjkYMJdu0jqsfgZOypupGh-Ejh8oZf4I0MHzv6yC5eCXzYio/s1600/IMG-20210612-WA0024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1600" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLzgWU6y59KA8P78QrLMDWvlZZYQpdRjF6gCKnqnWC30-diJm9rXWHxRR9Or7-3_wXF8epx1kUwqrfzmYLGACd-27H_SypjkYMJdu0jqsfgZOypupGh-Ejh8oZf4I0MHzv6yC5eCXzYio/w640-h288/IMG-20210612-WA0024.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo by Dave Green</div>Rachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-42689561551054421832021-03-23T03:03:00.008-07:002023-11-09T07:14:51.768-08:00Gatwick Airport's Annual Biodiversity Review 2020<p>Gatwick Airport’s Annual Biodiversity Review is here again, and despite the challenges from Covid-19 in 2020 we’ve been able to pull together loads of fascinating information and records of our local wildlife. A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to the project in 2020. </p><p><a href="https://www.gatwickairport.com/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-Gatwick-Library/default/dw53a8b264/images/Corporate-PDFs/Sustainability/Biodiversity-reports/Biodiversity_Annual_Review_2020.pdf">Gatwick Airport Annual Biodiversity Review 2020</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.gatwickairport.com/contentassets/85103e20c2904c418a5804ee03099277/abridged-2020-2021-biodiversity-annual-review.pdf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1196" data-original-width="891" height="503" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpvh3HKZy9Yru8iUkiqrTiLgtSpON9qbNr3NzYCvOoqM7mV-kv3hbjA276ca8aI7vCA0JGWsdDR7-ndPhv-WIGNaaNw_41VSkZE8CscIMIvXXFTdPP1wL5dYJc71ekyfvgxI9Hp8kPerY/w375-h503/cover+page+2021.JPG" width="375" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Rachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-83525686038318867182021-02-16T23:26:00.004-08:002021-02-18T05:25:55.269-08:00The importance of wildlife records<div class="separator">During my first undergraduate lecture (15.5 years ago!), the lecturer asked us to define the subject 'ecology'. Most responses were something like 'the study of animal interactions with their given habitats'. After correctly identifying which of us had specifically signed up for Zoology, she reminded us of <i>all the other living kingdoms</i><i> </i>which also form the backbone of ecosystems, including the higher and lower plants, fungi, bacteria and other groups of primarily microscopic organisms.</div><div class="separator"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrCq0GAkZnGxFrhln_glTunTxtBIzycf9678p77c2D4yU1OtcH9H07OQSi_oUtlbmXZ10wtUny564ugm0-H9a8KTvLprZd49vDwh4KQCx-B3vfHygPQMtX-m6FWCO6Xhq6877MfLe0X0s/s545/2020+pie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="545" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrCq0GAkZnGxFrhln_glTunTxtBIzycf9678p77c2D4yU1OtcH9H07OQSi_oUtlbmXZ10wtUny564ugm0-H9a8KTvLprZd49vDwh4KQCx-B3vfHygPQMtX-m6FWCO6Xhq6877MfLe0X0s/w472-h376/2020+pie.jpg" width="472" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A breakdown of the species group records for Gatwick Airport's species database (2020)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To be honest, this bunch of fresher students were probably only thinking about animals with backbones. Human interest tends to skew toward big and charismatic life forms, but really its the small and most abundant stuff which forms the bases of functioning ecosystems. The chart above reflects this in a way, with around 50% of Gatwick's species records made up of invertebrates, 30% of the higher and lower plants, 12% are fungi and slime-moulds, then whatever else makes up the rest (microscopic organisms sadly not yet included here).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigYl9mMos-Zzu0NMKw_PCL1_LhYl7pc4mShpudDk_i6IdTMd0DsNB21ugHYCHamudG4NelAicTTfq4bJEP7VFVQwplBE7_a_gSPlKdEXePLjquOgRoig1JNVm8IsHRc0jo_wP9UPCh2lU/s711/Gatwick+4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="437" data-original-width="711" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigYl9mMos-Zzu0NMKw_PCL1_LhYl7pc4mShpudDk_i6IdTMd0DsNB21ugHYCHamudG4NelAicTTfq4bJEP7VFVQwplBE7_a_gSPlKdEXePLjquOgRoig1JNVm8IsHRc0jo_wP9UPCh2lU/w470-h289/Gatwick+4.jpg" width="470" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Floristically rich habitats (like the River Mole floodplain near Brockley Wood) support large communities of invertebrates, fungi and other organisms.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ecosystems are rarely static and are vulnerable to all sorts of pressures; we can use wildlife records as a measure of the current health and condition of a given habitat. A <a href="https://www.brc.ac.uk/psl/about" target="_blank">pan-species list</a> (the term invented by Mark Telfer) is a comprehensive inventory of species occurring within a given geographical area, helping us to build an accurate picture of that ecosystem. With help from the Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre (SxBRC), we have finally collated a list of (almost) every species ever recorded at Gatwick!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVxePYPzzEnsiKulD2Q1G4qPhU4EVzSWcUDLddge2I93QrG1k-ySKVh-ewhiyhgq-lR5jVYPdVuFUsXwjziEWMDznJS2xGKw_jN4t1-7VPkmqrP8-T2JfByeWO_rIxD27DgaKejERoEQU/s1018/master1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="1018" height="347" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVxePYPzzEnsiKulD2Q1G4qPhU4EVzSWcUDLddge2I93QrG1k-ySKVh-ewhiyhgq-lR5jVYPdVuFUsXwjziEWMDznJS2xGKw_jN4t1-7VPkmqrP8-T2JfByeWO_rIxD27DgaKejERoEQU/w640-h347/master1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The first 20 or so species in our database (sorted by scientific name)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sussex-based ecologist <a href="http://analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Graeme Lyons</a> forged the path with this work; again with the SxBRC, he completed the mammoth task of compiling pan-species lists for the entire Sussex Wildlife Trust reserve network (no mean feat with over 10,000 species)! He left this 'master list' as a sort of legacy to Sussex WT, before moving on to pastures new (busy creating lists for other sites I'm sure). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For comparison, the SxBRC has confirmed around 2,400 species have been recorded to date at Gatwick, but the reality is that I've checked off 1,853 so far in our master pan-species spreadsheet and most records here are only up to 2018... so I'm already 500 species out of date! Once I have cleared this backlog, it will be very interesting to see the rate of new species additions to the airport list each year. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">All species are treated equally, whether abundant or rare, such as a common lichen we might see on the same tree every day, or the one-off sighting of a Leisler's Bat. They are included so long as they are native or naturalised in the wild and have been identified to the species level as accurately as possible (in some cases even via DNA barcoding techniques). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The brilliance of our list is that it can be filtered and sorted any which way.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">From A ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYSp9eF1iB8PzmqamaGazgVtgrqFykR4kZ_cnNWpZBGgshhufTR2LSwryQdQmI7UIC6JJ9IW2nhUOED_R8wc3KJPzBu36J7W1k1BNwJMXYfuSNgX3ArZscXv_mKSBhOvXy9c_2XPPvUWU/s1249/Abax.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1249" data-original-width="889" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYSp9eF1iB8PzmqamaGazgVtgrqFykR4kZ_cnNWpZBGgshhufTR2LSwryQdQmI7UIC6JJ9IW2nhUOED_R8wc3KJPzBu36J7W1k1BNwJMXYfuSNgX3ArZscXv_mKSBhOvXy9c_2XPPvUWU/s320/Abax.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;">Abax parallelepipedus - </i><span style="text-align: left;">a type of Carabid (ground) beetle</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjVE0VmgktsoJBkTC81XAmRFp9kzWxriPCxpEdc1OL0rLzPjw_8aHpiZ8cJ-ihMyCVG229NGX11D5rKLOd-MxjZ8BpxsgcDgrqCrOJ67vzRjfiGvlgAX8qK67VIGPYGqzOrNKE7Ji3gKQ/s1261/Abax1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="101" data-original-width="1261" height="52" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjVE0VmgktsoJBkTC81XAmRFp9kzWxriPCxpEdc1OL0rLzPjw_8aHpiZ8cJ-ihMyCVG229NGX11D5rKLOd-MxjZ8BpxsgcDgrqCrOJ67vzRjfiGvlgAX8qK67VIGPYGqzOrNKE7Ji3gKQ/w640-h52/Abax1.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">To Z ....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip6Z1HsjTB0znB9f27DkYopz0aliMv7SlHI-SBV_LouP-43AJAUIGZOzuxnHfUoEnYieUwGzPcHb0pLALKBdxgh_fm7owdBgJ6wEmgiZuMRA4BFM7oU-T6JNOF7g3Va1vbtleJY-0Gdy4/s1600/zyg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip6Z1HsjTB0znB9f27DkYopz0aliMv7SlHI-SBV_LouP-43AJAUIGZOzuxnHfUoEnYieUwGzPcHb0pLALKBdxgh_fm7owdBgJ6wEmgiZuMRA4BFM7oU-T6JNOF7g3Va1vbtleJY-0Gdy4/w400-h300/zyg.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;">Zygiella x-notata</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span>M</span><span>issing Sector Orb Weaver<i> </i></span></span><span style="text-align: left;">© Graeme Lyons</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSc4JBPNwgs-dAXPdnNhtfH1n8IKyiOp65N2GSpJb_D8WjhzFhkVuVU9_gIRSI_jE5vOo6-OI7sKbcv_y-Ays9OWcp6tecJtdi1Pi3qK3oYiQ7wKg2QLE5wCLOeLU9bstLGi4T-nLNGh4/s1217/Z1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="99" data-original-width="1217" height="52" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSc4JBPNwgs-dAXPdnNhtfH1n8IKyiOp65N2GSpJb_D8WjhzFhkVuVU9_gIRSI_jE5vOo6-OI7sKbcv_y-Ays9OWcp6tecJtdi1Pi3qK3oYiQ7wKg2QLE5wCLOeLU9bstLGi4T-nLNGh4/w640-h52/Z1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">From our earliest official species record at Gatwick in April 1962...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT81B0bEXypWNeBTB0dP4ucOHkgoNsNys-7kJ3Q2p8NuXkhT2S0RNqU0MakuTBbSC2Qf819FR3oVirVdpJ8_GwxNTC9z9xGlMp5j27-fgWP6V_GH50M5KCLYbKuihtMOWN0TCqKs1IX2c/s477/skylark_rspb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="322" data-original-width="477" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT81B0bEXypWNeBTB0dP4ucOHkgoNsNys-7kJ3Q2p8NuXkhT2S0RNqU0MakuTBbSC2Qf819FR3oVirVdpJ8_GwxNTC9z9xGlMp5j27-fgWP6V_GH50M5KCLYbKuihtMOWN0TCqKs1IX2c/w280-h188/skylark_rspb.jpg" width="280" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Skylark <i>Alauda arvensis</i> (<a href="https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/skylark/" target="_blank">RSPB</a>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZRdDQFo8-8BVSOy3Ah9xNaEKTAGp-AWUj4VstV3uDNkqb4rlE2P9U-lVmFhJ9SkpvVx7fuelW1LW8m8w2_JIJngrCYIGC7uClnn87VoxAjZ-ZTNnhLNPSRvJQ2Wh-x6rMFvzjXFfoZRg/s551/merlin_male_1200x675.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="551" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZRdDQFo8-8BVSOy3Ah9xNaEKTAGp-AWUj4VstV3uDNkqb4rlE2P9U-lVmFhJ9SkpvVx7fuelW1LW8m8w2_JIJngrCYIGC7uClnn87VoxAjZ-ZTNnhLNPSRvJQ2Wh-x6rMFvzjXFfoZRg/w420-h267/merlin_male_1200x675.jpg" width="420" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Merlin <i>Falco columbarius</i> (<a href="https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/merlin/">RSPB</a>)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaSLQxlB_C3p6qSxtOzVRQdArzzCd8fwVZdXLNvCyK7uQWNdJzFPiD8QDPcC5k49knuhK-WGGULINHNbFdto9OvHr-vNg1r6bJssVyBG_YdymtRlYTZ0CvE7Xrc2SBhIPJuifms2NkE9Q/s1240/latest+merlin.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="93" data-original-width="1240" height="48" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaSLQxlB_C3p6qSxtOzVRQdArzzCd8fwVZdXLNvCyK7uQWNdJzFPiD8QDPcC5k49knuhK-WGGULINHNbFdto9OvHr-vNg1r6bJssVyBG_YdymtRlYTZ0CvE7Xrc2SBhIPJuifms2NkE9Q/w640-h48/latest+merlin.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Gatwick's pan-species list is the result of a huge group effort, with the biological records dating back to the 1960's and contributed to by a large community of wildlife professionals and enthusiasts. The master spreadsheet comprises several columns, such as the year a species was first recorded, the year it was most recently seen, an example of the location, plus any conservation designations it might have.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBr2Qm9LN-rCvSOa80PUHLzqQfCqWvvKFujpW_PCaGOTKDLBPB-2A1Z1L1CLFfmy-Omp2YlXMP17Cy0jlOTQFLrLxA00YS-O1iScj0sVV_Sme9pH9pkO5rFe5sitwayFDHEGtkNT5JRlU/s1284/earliest1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="557" data-original-width="1284" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBr2Qm9LN-rCvSOa80PUHLzqQfCqWvvKFujpW_PCaGOTKDLBPB-2A1Z1L1CLFfmy-Omp2YlXMP17Cy0jlOTQFLrLxA00YS-O1iScj0sVV_Sme9pH9pkO5rFe5sitwayFDHEGtkNT5JRlU/w640-h278/earliest1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The earliest 15 or so species to be recorded at Gatwick were plants, birds, dragonflies </div><div style="text-align: center;">and a scavenging beetle from an old Knacker's Yard</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This helps me to identify gaps in the database (of common or rare species we might have overlooked), as well as the things which might have disappeared, or most recently arrived. Just by searching for a key species, I see it is missing from the list, so there's more recent invertebrate data still to incorporate, along with historic data from previous ecology reports (some of which are being scanned and entered manually by SxBRC).</div><div><br /></div><div>A few of the benefits of keeping a pan-species master spreadsheet for the airport:</div><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Pulling together old and new information for every single species, such as when it was first recorded, when it was last recorded, the sites on which it has occurred, any conservation designations it has or previously had and a precise location where it might be found.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Filtering by conservation designation helps us to identify our most rare and vulnerable species - below I can see that 25 of our moths have some sort of status for their conservation, but I also see that we have only entered moth records up to 2018, so there are probably more to add.</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0tf-Bs_hGthdfmfbpTjfg2xIysLeaElCQUy6SobCogFUfbEcU5293kLB7i0A4mZYs_viQ2CDqQqtbR52qRaWJ6itOpWJTVaf_lOKalyW7pSDf9On6c55p0lmaK8dG06Sh0gCVEz-GavA/s1020/moths.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="1020" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0tf-Bs_hGthdfmfbpTjfg2xIysLeaElCQUy6SobCogFUfbEcU5293kLB7i0A4mZYs_viQ2CDqQqtbR52qRaWJ6itOpWJTVaf_lOKalyW7pSDf9On6c55p0lmaK8dG06Sh0gCVEz-GavA/w579-h326/moths.JPG" width="579" /></a></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Gaps in our monitoring: 300 species of fungi demonstrates a high recording effort (mostly all down to Nick Aplin of Sussex Fungi Group!), but 11 species of lichen is not much and we haven't a single species record for algae.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Species lost: 6 bird species haven’t been recorded since 1997, at least 4 of which had previously been breeding here. By cross-checking with the bird conservation organisations, we can see these particular species have been declining nationally. </li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Identifying useful surveys: at least 138 invertebrate species were picked up from the water quality monitoring reports by a third-party consultant, regularly undertaken since 2011. </li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Data flow issues: by sending copies of our list to individual wildlife recording schemes, they can indicate where they are waiting on relevant data from us.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Highlighting importance of partnership work: without the huge database of records collected and centralised by the Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre, a comprehensive list would not be possible. They ensure that the wider data is kept safe, reaching the relevant wildlife recording schemes and conservation organisations. </li></ul><div>Many thanks again to Lois, Clare, Bob and all the staff and volunteers at the Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre for your help and feedback. Also a huge thank you to everyone who submits wildlife records - every little helps and over the years the understanding of our habitats gets better and better.</div></div></div>Rachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-25349529723376356442020-10-21T04:57:00.002-07:002020-10-21T04:58:22.282-07:00Vlog: Gatwick Fungi survey Oct 20 - Undescribed species to scienceLast week, local mycologist Nick Aplin visited Gatwick for a fungi survey; he recently found not one, but two undescribed species to science in Goat Meadow! Join us on the hunt in this 6 minute vid to re-find these species...</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="418" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q8FeGsLBmC4" width="570" youtube-src-id="Q8FeGsLBmC4"></iframe></div><br /><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><p></p>Rachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-36741072563227668282020-10-05T02:16:00.000-07:002020-10-05T02:16:16.600-07:00Himalayan Balsam (short video)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">An introduction to the invasive plant Himalayan Balsam (<i>Impatiens glandulifera</i>), found along the River Mole at Gatwick.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="427" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/a2fnaqx1Y2Y" width="587" youtube-src-id="a2fnaqx1Y2Y"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>Rachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-14050375108762572632020-10-03T10:14:00.002-07:002020-10-03T10:14:55.979-07:00Rooftop Peregrine Falcons<p> Some footage of the nesting attempts of a <b>Peregrine Falcon</b> (<i>Falco peregrinus</i>) pair, during spring 2020.</p><p>Best with sound on...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="402" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fqVqGcfahLw" width="527" youtube-src-id="fqVqGcfahLw"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>Rachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-81821845472994190042020-06-24T10:21:00.159-07:002020-06-26T05:43:18.667-07:00June 2020: Back for a brief timeThe Covid-19 situation led to a much disrupted field season for ecologists and conservationists, but of course the wildlife has been happily cracking on with things in our absence!<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcWjUKjV5_wi72zceuaTDu2ghU82ihEJdOjujV_WiZ1VLQ1d6AbUXQfq07NJv5L4gbjlL8OB8wj-4jJXnsr_d0xm8_EfT7lIW0g2vwIapgWpyYyES441Fq2eER-Sqfr-KlBUOr_uKxR5o/s1383/nwz+grasslands.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="778" data-original-width="1383" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcWjUKjV5_wi72zceuaTDu2ghU82ihEJdOjujV_WiZ1VLQ1d6AbUXQfq07NJv5L4gbjlL8OB8wj-4jJXnsr_d0xm8_EfT7lIW0g2vwIapgWpyYyES441Fq2eER-Sqfr-KlBUOr_uKxR5o/w625-h351/nwz+grasslands.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">North West Zone grasslands</div><div><div><br /></div><div>I returned from furlough for three weeks in June, catching a snapshot of the peak field season and checking up on our most important habitats and notable species. As well as being drought-ridden, the main difference this year is an eerily quiet airport landscape, which has given it a post-apocalyptic feel. The weather has been very challenging, with random storms and rainshowers during my first and second week, then incredibly hot conditions in the third. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZzbxeU-40RBidZ8NQMHNi0afuOZVp0hTMOjzEymM9iEHC3TjAhR6ZYOnUTe90PmFDU7lb8znFhyna01hPaEAgX1WXIam0cwYbsqXFOhP_hNC291-XXvZ4BLvZyKN_hWbjEruvkfogrYw/s1530/board.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1530" data-original-width="1009" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZzbxeU-40RBidZ8NQMHNi0afuOZVp0hTMOjzEymM9iEHC3TjAhR6ZYOnUTe90PmFDU7lb8znFhyna01hPaEAgX1WXIam0cwYbsqXFOhP_hNC291-XXvZ4BLvZyKN_hWbjEruvkfogrYw/w330-h500/board.jpg" width="330" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI4rH5JuwlBJPtU5gYK9yzT_bhPrs6UV7xGXXQ8hxwPGccCifDbCq39lb1e5arne403FmbNOhvzXP-Z4YF9IXJzTQ91i4I1-De-vAaRmoZaDHHNBTmCeM-_-wof8aARm_VSmy0N4RPAaE/s980/20200623_103510.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="980" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI4rH5JuwlBJPtU5gYK9yzT_bhPrs6UV7xGXXQ8hxwPGccCifDbCq39lb1e5arne403FmbNOhvzXP-Z4YF9IXJzTQ91i4I1-De-vAaRmoZaDHHNBTmCeM-_-wof8aARm_VSmy0N4RPAaE/w500-h375/20200623_103510.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>My goal was to cover off as many ecology surveys and site checks as possible, as even partial data sets can be useful. I've been able to carry out some general species listing on our sites with the help of Vince Massimo, focusing on breeding birds and macroinvertebrates such as butterflies.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl6skwB-F7AhwmT_y_UIm-evce-lI_ArNCwT9w1qaUw1fvDEoyFrwMYCbQ3r9uVWBWI_F_5xNbq4ER_b_dCnk8sqaCL0JGa98gWCf_q_yV6qJk-bimfID-nbYqJChl54tMuymOQO5Kpj8/s4608/20200613_135502.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="4608" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl6skwB-F7AhwmT_y_UIm-evce-lI_ArNCwT9w1qaUw1fvDEoyFrwMYCbQ3r9uVWBWI_F_5xNbq4ER_b_dCnk8sqaCL0JGa98gWCf_q_yV6qJk-bimfID-nbYqJChl54tMuymOQO5Kpj8/w500-h281/20200613_135502.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Vince Masimo, River Mole grasslands</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuzAvz6wW5iv4vU24jM2bTLFM7Ftdnd5U39o1ThtLyl0s4ngNmE8pIOhfJqzbdKfVvTx-pbhuP1MgWrSJgN6ozdHjyj7bp7qvDp-4ctbheK5inZUG0p2LPno6QDY4D336ZvycR-QXOY3c/s1200/IMG_3199-01G.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuzAvz6wW5iv4vU24jM2bTLFM7Ftdnd5U39o1ThtLyl0s4ngNmE8pIOhfJqzbdKfVvTx-pbhuP1MgWrSJgN6ozdHjyj7bp7qvDp-4ctbheK5inZUG0p2LPno6QDY4D336ZvycR-QXOY3c/w500-h375/IMG_3199-01G.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Marbled White butterflies</b> (<i>Melanargia galathea</i>). Photo by Vince Massimo</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVFJbMOu-8_CBdO_slO0ltbQdvuM5Tn_O1Nw4X_YF6KKe9IpToBrADt2vXuIHN5ckTMsSPeUSTY7roEC3NSVg_i7YJPxc3BCKCGHksAyw07wt-wd_luxMCIkrOelzAYZM28UrQwBe11r4/s3264/20200623_131411.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVFJbMOu-8_CBdO_slO0ltbQdvuM5Tn_O1Nw4X_YF6KKe9IpToBrADt2vXuIHN5ckTMsSPeUSTY7roEC3NSVg_i7YJPxc3BCKCGHksAyw07wt-wd_luxMCIkrOelzAYZM28UrQwBe11r4/w500-h375/20200623_131411.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Blood-vein Moth</b> (<i>Timandra comae),</i> a UK BAP research species</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8w4one2TVsuYCLlJ9m9Uga1p9sBfAmYwwiO-kTfYSReuMsiW8_oEmnpmv3w_LQ5BIwIxtguqqlBe7fY24HKnjXrFpzLzSmXxP3DodOJ8QNS8DUy563LerZWD_Vay4FJ4aByne6wTTlR4/s1877/20200624_145913.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1877" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8w4one2TVsuYCLlJ9m9Uga1p9sBfAmYwwiO-kTfYSReuMsiW8_oEmnpmv3w_LQ5BIwIxtguqqlBe7fY24HKnjXrFpzLzSmXxP3DodOJ8QNS8DUy563LerZWD_Vay4FJ4aByne6wTTlR4/w500-h376/20200624_145913.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Spotted Longhorn Beetle</b> (<i>Rutpela maculata</i>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/05bBLhhBTyc" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Unfortunately we missed the flight season of our male Long-horned Bees, but I joined Sussex PhD student Gigi Hennesy in checking up on the females, which were all busily collecting pollen for their burrows. The nest site habitats seem relatively stable, though would benefit from some willow coppicing this autumn.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTJ4lh4S3MgTE4zp4MiYx7emJNi6T4gOowrthisq-pkNvaYvYA6_4ZasqQDu3SJiaPGq0EEYwgAWip5BjVhypiUcmQLiEmcjREcvURBWOtVFmJDezF-Q61Iy6WdE_YFL4WvOLD7RVSZIk/s1116/20200615_120906.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="1116" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTJ4lh4S3MgTE4zp4MiYx7emJNi6T4gOowrthisq-pkNvaYvYA6_4ZasqQDu3SJiaPGq0EEYwgAWip5BjVhypiUcmQLiEmcjREcvURBWOtVFmJDezF-Q61Iy6WdE_YFL4WvOLD7RVSZIk/w500-h316/20200615_120906.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Long-horned Bee</b> (<i>Eucera longicornis</i>) female in burrow. River Mole</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oH3gpojdfjw" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">We had just completed setting up two new reptile transects prior to lockdown, so we've had a lot of matts to check in a short period of time. I was pleased to see the reptile mitigation area at the Westfield Stream site has become real hot spots for Grass Snakes, as I had suspected it would be. I even spotted a rare melanistic (all black one), though sadly on that occasion was not ready with the camera!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx_vuthYJ43BXD9SOUX9PpoH8L6vuz6JMxMc43OGW8_nJ4Z9Ys6BHKq-PshIrJ6ewZvhx58Z-vryeQV7LHSh_Nrug6iA2LBLNsFXDRq_k9XYjNBHBSNmTL3pgoYGSOVxGpoNg5jnrNxog/s980/20200619_124829.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="980" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx_vuthYJ43BXD9SOUX9PpoH8L6vuz6JMxMc43OGW8_nJ4Z9Ys6BHKq-PshIrJ6ewZvhx58Z-vryeQV7LHSh_Nrug6iA2LBLNsFXDRq_k9XYjNBHBSNmTL3pgoYGSOVxGpoNg5jnrNxog/w500-h375/20200619_124829.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Westfield Stream reptile hibernaculum (rubble pile) with roofing felt for surveying</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iy4J6GMYL8A" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Barred Grass Snake</b> (<i>Natrix helvetica</i>)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">We have been experimenting with management of some road verges around the landside estate this year, and my main task this month was to repeat the botanical assessments. I've been able to add in some additional areas to our baseline, which was initiated by Laurie Jackson in 2019. The timing was fortunately spot on, as it was before the next scheduled cutting regime and the perfect time of year to spot (and protect) a proliferation of Bee Orchids and other notable plants.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggfEMjUXYyNJDWr1MhN-sQYJApVAwVa07yMpLLm1GjC4ecj_FOEVOnxXJuSfT_Sna9Ta13_7MtEpJDGI9kc8v9gqH7YnqA6_jtvezIwyBmEHXYChmcj9awtXW_7nnej8SUU1Q9z_pVUZc/s849/orchid+protection1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="849" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggfEMjUXYyNJDWr1MhN-sQYJApVAwVa07yMpLLm1GjC4ecj_FOEVOnxXJuSfT_Sna9Ta13_7MtEpJDGI9kc8v9gqH7YnqA6_jtvezIwyBmEHXYChmcj9awtXW_7nnej8SUU1Q9z_pVUZc/w500-h314/orchid+protection1.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Orchid protection</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix3WVbVsjbg6Vt6rTAWH8-teQJjMOTxQNQSK4YXBxz1ipoGf9qVMRmPEWu61UJylUSUr8bVfX3Z2SmPyLfGtd5oM4lTlDNCfxpIjGF9j_2CGbW3CtmT2-ZJ2D3wIesdVFdzrFsajCcfk0/s1562/Orchids+NP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1562" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix3WVbVsjbg6Vt6rTAWH8-teQJjMOTxQNQSK4YXBxz1ipoGf9qVMRmPEWu61UJylUSUr8bVfX3Z2SmPyLfGtd5oM4lTlDNCfxpIjGF9j_2CGbW3CtmT2-ZJ2D3wIesdVFdzrFsajCcfk0/w500-h331/Orchids+NP.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Bee Orchids, North Perimeter Road monorail verge</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwce8WLg070b0YZCgUMiy74KVQVvVmu4MzOPcP89zBPJrx8W3MK_ZhzIXBIMpoCuOW546J0RxEshBIHl1Uu2kj0yJF7dYPXKbPtz4O3obsTieutWE3BrICb4LvXvbiN3umh-I9nEhKcYg/s1478/Bee+orchid.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="1478" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwce8WLg070b0YZCgUMiy74KVQVvVmu4MzOPcP89zBPJrx8W3MK_ZhzIXBIMpoCuOW546J0RxEshBIHl1Uu2kj0yJF7dYPXKbPtz4O3obsTieutWE3BrICb4LvXvbiN3umh-I9nEhKcYg/w400-h295/Bee+orchid.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Bee Orchid</b> (<i>Ophrys apifera</i>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5QAm1of4JWUgaOp8BAJfw6C9BbzFDVJRdQwucipvSB4ni7ssBvHKcU5BxfObT6Ul09p85FKvbc87Hk0fTJJthJsX4HD_XvszH7s2p-OWEVFRmHh_qSnSggz8fPi5Ok9aKVxWIaPiMunw/s1037/Pyramidal.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="818" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5QAm1of4JWUgaOp8BAJfw6C9BbzFDVJRdQwucipvSB4ni7ssBvHKcU5BxfObT6Ul09p85FKvbc87Hk0fTJJthJsX4HD_XvszH7s2p-OWEVFRmHh_qSnSggz8fPi5Ok9aKVxWIaPiMunw/w394-h500/Pyramidal.jpg" width="394" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Pyramidal Orchid</b> (<i>Anacamptis pyramidalis</i>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz7e5SPAADz9QGdmlNWT-33jiIj1AHrNqIrXWEEimd2Ew1hx6DBx2pRXND7izF8B7AC1cOa8Z32hlcZBgOAypKt98oCMOwaEzgR8qHkFVR51_0uKtDoKehRYXGHR7Aikxo2_coKOluThQ/s1305/pennyroyal.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="949" data-original-width="1305" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz7e5SPAADz9QGdmlNWT-33jiIj1AHrNqIrXWEEimd2Ew1hx6DBx2pRXND7izF8B7AC1cOa8Z32hlcZBgOAypKt98oCMOwaEzgR8qHkFVR51_0uKtDoKehRYXGHR7Aikxo2_coKOluThQ/w500-h364/pennyroyal.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Pennyroyal </b>(<i>Mentha pulegium</i>), Gatwick's rarest species of plant</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It was a huge pleasure to hear <b>Black Redstart</b> singing while completing the road verge asessment. This species was last confirmed as breeding here in 2012. My apologies for the lacking views of this charismatic little bird, but have the sound on for this video of his song...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i0KCfVhTb_I" width="560"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Black Redstart</b> (<i>Phoenicurus ochruros</i>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">With the help of members of public, I was excited to confirm at least two territories of <b>Nightingale</b> along in the North West Zone; a red-listed and declining bird which has only recently been recorded at the airport. This indicates that our scrub habitats along the River Mole are maturing very nicely. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QiO0ifz_7EI" width="560"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When the weather perked up I had<span style="text-align: center;"> some success with the clearwing moth pheromones, although we already have <b>Red-belted Clearwing</b> on our species list and I was only able to re-confirm their presence on site. I didn't find the time to test all of the lures again, so there may well be more species out there.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicB2aBhJzXIpYsbJtbVrOE5bH4-IpzE-ACUBkjtm7cUNRIti33puweytPYljD5Bs-KmuZzJd_76p9F6w6GcAdF2dp11udlQkSf6hgX3Ndw05F3-L3yyeWmF2O4soXLNOA0OQAYLsgjebw/s1528/20200624_145828.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1528" data-original-width="1450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicB2aBhJzXIpYsbJtbVrOE5bH4-IpzE-ACUBkjtm7cUNRIti33puweytPYljD5Bs-KmuZzJd_76p9F6w6GcAdF2dp11udlQkSf6hgX3Ndw05F3-L3yyeWmF2O4soXLNOA0OQAYLsgjebw/w380-h400/20200624_145828.jpg" width="380" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Red-belted Clearwing </b>moth<b> </b>(<i>Synanthedon myopaeformis</i>)</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zCRVCJ0bUyI" width="560"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Red-belted Clearwing attracted to pheromone lure</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Gatwick Honeybee Apiary, aka Gatsbees had a very hard time in autumn 2019; one of the hives was sadly vandalised, and we had to very quickly shift them all to the nearby Wick Farm during a heavy rain storm. This disruption, along with an intensively wet start to 2020, meant that unfortunately most colonies didn't make it. Our headkeeper Gill has been hard at work to build us back up to four healthy colonies, and I was able to give her a quick hand (although I missed the busiest time of year). Wick Farm is off our biodiversity sites, but still close enough to the airport to act as a sentinel site for monitoring incoming pests and diseases.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZwEDBfLpdQfTyD68FHh86-oAHkTx5KutOQjXP15k17Fy-wvS_JRFTsN5RnK9a2SHs1kIi8xuIBhDLnaBVacFqQ_8ZtE0OWEiWFepfeOK98Lly11YdpEh47TQB93T6rWRBjSCSmrtgNHc/s913/20200624_151433.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="671" data-original-width="913" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZwEDBfLpdQfTyD68FHh86-oAHkTx5KutOQjXP15k17Fy-wvS_JRFTsN5RnK9a2SHs1kIi8xuIBhDLnaBVacFqQ_8ZtE0OWEiWFepfeOK98Lly11YdpEh47TQB93T6rWRBjSCSmrtgNHc/w500-h368/20200624_151433.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Honeybees on comb</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Our colonies are all named after the laying queens, who's names are alphabetised and based on relatedness: Diana, Iris, Indigo and Jolene are the current four. When hard at work they make an incredible sound...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e12OGO_c7oU" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">Diana's colony</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">With the help of veteran owl surveyor David Plummer, we completed another Tawny Owl breeding survey of Gatwick's estate, assessing how this under-surveyed, amber-listed bird species has been making use of our sites.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl-FkBCkbKJm9qK_FWUebyEaZAcMLpFeKyHiYCHrbTf3JhgvILQt3fydxzRLdeD0cptA0i5LgzbAQ7ipxsG57Txq6h6Nbnrg-VR09EBbm87lAoHPtVoqrC72EiQvQwVqMXHDSSUUG3bmQ/s815/Tawny+survey+2020.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="815" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl-FkBCkbKJm9qK_FWUebyEaZAcMLpFeKyHiYCHrbTf3JhgvILQt3fydxzRLdeD0cptA0i5LgzbAQ7ipxsG57Txq6h6Nbnrg-VR09EBbm87lAoHPtVoqrC72EiQvQwVqMXHDSSUUG3bmQ/w500-h476/Tawny+survey+2020.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Tawny Owl </b>(<i>Strix aluco</i>) survey June 2020, Land East of the Railway Line</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It seems as elsewhere, this has been a low-success breeding year for Gatwick's Tawny Owls, with only one calling juvenile detected. It is likely that the very wet end to winter, followed by the intensive drought period, has negatively impacted this woodland predator. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VxCfwMptmEE" width="560"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Finally, an update on the recently restored Rolls Farm pond; the trail camera compilation below highlights the importance of these small areas of water for local wildlife, an important resource particularly in our warming climate. A very well done again to Tom Simpson and his volunteers (see this <a href="https://biodiversitygatwick.blogspot.com/2020/05/breathing-new-life-into-neglected-farm.html" target="_blank">previous blogpost</a> for Tom's report).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6hxnVil75kKjEtPDBVdRa3T0jOetvdFweqLWVQfMcR6X_l5zRPXoWs1JXSqobKuI8VTY1ZquJTWtCCfAfdXLuJ85-bBvwhcOSAagw5hkeMoYMT93epahJZYz0c4WjByqriBJDRuotqps/s1015/20200608_175047.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="1015" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6hxnVil75kKjEtPDBVdRa3T0jOetvdFweqLWVQfMcR6X_l5zRPXoWs1JXSqobKuI8VTY1ZquJTWtCCfAfdXLuJ85-bBvwhcOSAagw5hkeMoYMT93epahJZYz0c4WjByqriBJDRuotqps/w625-h354/20200608_175047.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Rolls Farm Pond</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mKi2kcFttr8" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">Rolls Farm Pond trail camera (time and date stamp are set wrong)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">We hope to be back again soon for further updates on Gatwick's biodiversity sites.</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><span><!--more--></span></div></div>Rachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-70119609282296946242020-05-02T03:31:00.000-07:002020-05-04T02:49:41.731-07:00Breathing new life into a neglected Farm Pond<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Gatwick Woodlands, sitting on heavy clay soils, are typical of the Low Weald landscape. The area is home to a series of small wet woods such as Aldar Carr in Upper Pickets Wood, Hazel and Hornbeam coppice in Lower Pickets, ancient semi-natural Oak woodlands in Horleyland Wood Local Wildlife Site (LWS) and the wet grasslands of Goat Meadow. These habitats contain a network of small ditches and ponds which hold water throughout the year and are important features for amphibians and reptiles, particularly Grass Snakes (<i>Natrix helvetica</i>). The most abundant reptile at Gatwick, the Grass Snake is a target species on our Biodiversity Action Plan. We have a well-recorded population with, interestingly, a small percentage of melanistic (black) snakes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mix of natural and man-made ponds across the site are in a constant state of change. Ponds will naturally silt-up over time, turning into other habitats such as bogs and, eventually, scrub and woodland. Historically, this was not an issue as new ponds would be created through natural processes like holes being left behind from wind-blown trees and flood or rain water filling scrapes. However, in the modern developed environment, habitats are fragmented and natural processes disrupted. Therefore, on a site like this, we actively manage our ponds to keep them open. Thanks to long-serving Gatwick Greenspace Partnership volunteer Adrian Slaughter, we have an excellent historical record of the management of some of our ponds. Adrian’s record-keeping helped to inform a recently-completed project that we hope will boost our reptile and amphibian populations further and also provide a fantastic space for environmental education.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Gatwick woodlands once sat within the landholdings of Rolls Farm (Roles Farm on the above map from 1903), which was divided into two farmsteads of Upper and Lower Rolls Farm. The garden of the old Lower Rolls farmhouse contained a small pond which had been well maintained over the years. It even had a dipping platform built in 2003 by former Gatwick Greenspace Partnership (GGP) employee, now Senior Ranger at Buchan Country Park, Simon Rowledge.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Work began in October 2018 when a team from GAL Security and Terminals spent a day removing accumulated silt and clearing vegetation. This gave us a better view to measure-up for a new liner, which was funded by GAL’s Community Engagement department.</span></span><br />
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The pond restoration has been a fantastic addition for wildlife and environmental education and a project that would not have been completed without the willing volunteers of GAL and GGP. In future, the pond and surrounding habitats will be used as a space for local school children to learn all about wildlife and will, perhaps, inspire the next generation to keep our beloved ponds healthy and thriving for years to come. </span></span><br />
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A blogpost on getting to know the wildlife in your garden, out on your doorstep or around the neighbourhood, through the incentive of wildlife recording / listing.</h3>
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We all keep hearing about how we need to 'connect more with nature'. Its a bit of a vague term isnt it? My interpretation of that is to observe wildlife, perhaps draw it, photograph or even paint it. Then there's another, slightly more primal approach.... chase it down!<br />
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There are good reasons for identifying and listing wildlife; keeping records builds a picture of what is happening to wildlife populations in the countryside (and our gardens, and urban environments). Also putting a name to something, or 'labelling' it, opens up of world of curiosity around that organism, invariably leading to further questions; what does it do, what does it need, how many different types are there (which you can easily find answers to these days in books and online). Suddenly you are now marvelling at nature on a new, intricate level.<br />
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So what things do you need to become a wildlife lister?<br />
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Not a lot really. I would say your main kit is a pen, paper and maybe some kind of a container or jar. Ok you might not have a butterfly net handy, but you could make do with that old pond net shoved in the back of the shed. You can involve the whole family, sending your minions (children or other-halfs) out to hunt things down for you and pot them up.<br />
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Starting off easy with a <b>Garden Snail </b>(<i>Cornu aspersum</i>)</div>
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Or use the stealth approach and take pics on your phone. The person with the best handwriting (not me) can then write everything down, or you can keep your list on handy apps like <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/" target="_blank">iNaturalist</a> or <a href="https://www.brc.ac.uk/irecord/" target="_blank">iRecord</a>.<br />
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Ok but what if you don't have a garden? Well you can perhaps start a list for your local park, or even an individual tree or shrub can be a draw for all sorts of wildlife. I heard a talk by wildlife photographer Jeremy Early about the multitude of insects he was recording around an old laurel hedge, which he had considered getting rid of (he since changed his mind). It seems while the sun is on it, its waxy leaves make perfect basking pads for flying insects...<br />
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Turned out to be the <b>Tapered Dronefly </b>(<i>Eristalis pertinax</i>)</div>
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I think this little lady is <b>Gwynne's mining bee</b> <i>Andrena bicolor </i>(carrying pollen on her back legs means its a she)</div>
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<b>Red Mason Bee </b>(<i>Osmia bicornis</i>) male netted from the laurel</div>
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A tiny bee on Dandelion, I think this one is the <b>Yellow-legged Mining Bee</b> <i>Andrena flavipes</i></div>
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Mum and Dad's fridge list which I had started just before lockdown... Have you been updating this guys?</div>
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<li>For birds you can give the RSPB bird identifier a try (though when testing it out I found it a bit hard myself!!) <a href="https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/identify-a-bird/" target="_blank">https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/identify-a-bird/</a></li>
<li>I highly recommend these FSC fold out charts – they do a garden gift pack for £18 – great for your homeschool <a href="https://www.field-studies-council.org/product-category/publications/" target="_blank">https://www.field-studies-council.org/product-category/publications/</a></li>
<li>And Heritage Playing Cards do lots of different wildlife groups (great way for learning common species, I used them when first learning my garden birds) <a href="http://heritageplayingcards.com/index.php/garden-birds.html" target="_blank">http://heritageplayingcards.com/index.php/garden-birds.html</a></li>
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Or if you get really stuck you can <a href="mailto:biodiversitygatwick@gmail.com" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">email me</a> with your pics,<b> </b>as I seem to have a bit more time on my hands! </div>
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Its not just about listing wildlife though, we should also endeavour to help it where we can.<br />
You can thank your local wildlife (and encourage them more into your garden) through these handy tips by the Wildlife Trust <a href="https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/looking-after-yourself-and-nature" target="_blank">https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/looking-after-yourself-and-nature</a><br />
Also see what's happening in Michael from the Sussex Wildlife Trust's garden via the Corona Wildlife Diary <a href="https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/category/corona-wildlife-diary" target="_blank">https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/category/corona-wildlife-diary</a> </div>
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Rachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-51267874472880670562020-03-10T02:42:00.001-07:002021-07-01T12:31:42.396-07:00Gatwick's Annual Biodiversity Review 2019Gatwick's Annual Biodiversity Review 2019 is now available to download from this link:<br />
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The report includes lots of incredible species highlights and new initiatives in 2019, and we have had a huge number of contributors so I would like to thank single one of you. I’m looking forward to the 2020 field season and catching up with you all again!<br />
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Boardwalks continually being built by volunteers headed up by Gatwick Greenspace Project Officer Tom Simpson. These help to protect delicate woodland ground flora</div>
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Back when I was relatively new to the job, I wrote a post about how incredibly wet our sites were in <a href="https://biodiversitygatwick.blogspot.com/2013/02/youregonna-need-bigger-boat.html" target="_blank">February 2013;</a> that was back when I hadn't known what to expect. Now seven winters later I do know, and it is abundantly clear from the state of our woodlands that this has been the wettest February on record.<br />
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Upper Picketts Wood is our lowest-lying woodland on site</div>
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It is a worry that our winters are getting observably wetter and warmer. Many organisms, such as plants and fungi need a consistently cold period during the life cycle to trigger certain developmental processes. Others need to hibernate, such as mammals like the Hazel Dormouse, all reptiles, and many invertebrates such as Brimstone butterflies, spiders and beetles. They need the cold in order to fully enter hibernation, and warm winters can badly interfere as they repeatedly wake up, sapping precious energy reserves which are supposed to last until spring.<br />
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Impacts on delicate woodland groundflora and microhabitats</div>
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Other impacts are immediately obvious, such as the widening of footpaths and increased poaching of soils due to people, dogs and even the deer avoiding the wettest parts. Tom Simpson's handy work installing boardwalks and 'slubbing out' woodland ditches is fortunately helping to alleviate this in the worst effected areas.<br />
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It is safe to say then that our contractors and conservation volunteers have really been up against it this winter. I've mostly been indoors writing up data for our annual review, nipping out only for short periods to carry out site checks. This intrepid lot have doggedly carried on, often for several rainy days in a row!<br />
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Gatwick Airport's I.T Team: re-lining the old Rolls Farm pond</div>
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A special thank you to all of our teams who have persevered through the relentless rain and bloody awful ground conditions. You do fantastic work and compared to seven years ago, many of our habitats have never been in such a good state.</div>
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Gatwick's Volunteer Reserve Managers - Harry, Phil, Robert and Chris </div>
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We now have the fantastic Volunteer Reserve Managers (VRMs), a team of veteran Gatwick Greenpsace Partnership volunteers who are well versed in the more sensitive habitat management tasks, often in difficult to access sites. </div>
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Chris and Phil (pictured above) have been busy in Goat Meadow, pushing back the scrub encroaching on the wildflower-rich grassland. Like the large herbivores which would have roamed freely around our sites long ago, they create patch disturbance, helping to maintain a dynamic system of constantly regenerating habitat.</div>
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Myself, Glendale manager Jon Eglin and our bat surveyor Martyn Cooke have been dodging the rain showers to install bird nesting boxes around our woodlands, just in time for spring. These bespoke design boxes are to encourage rare and declining species we know to be breeding nearby.</div>
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Scrub west of Brockley Wood (Photo by Ben Lee)</div>
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Roots Upwards Ltd have continued the Blackthorn scrub management in the North West Zone, essential for regenerating growth for the rare Brown Hairstreak butterflies, while benefiting our wildflowers and pollinating insects. They have also been helping to move and replace our bat boxes using ropes and harnesses, collecting up reptile matts and shifting logs and habitat piles.</div>
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LERL Pond 3 chipping willows on the bank</div>
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Opening up an area on the southern edge of the pond to allow in more light (Photo by Ben Lee)</div>
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What a bunch of gosh-darn heroes you all are. Very muddy heroes. Now go in the garden, get under the hose, then you're allowed in the house.</div>
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Common Frog spawn at Land Eats Pond 3 (Photo by Ben Lee)</div>
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No complaints from the frogs and other amphibians though.Rachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-79923181393375455642020-01-06T02:21:00.000-08:002020-01-06T02:38:16.830-08:00Gatwick's butterfly transects - 2019 (Year 2)<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">The two transects under the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme <a href="https://www.ukbms.org/" target="_blank">(UKBMS)</a> commenced at Gatwick in 2018 </span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">and have been con</span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">tinued in 2019</span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">.</span> These intensive surveys are brilliant at providing an in-depth picture of butterflies on our sites, but also results in a weekly site walkover covering a large area, providing a good opportunity to collect additional species records throughout summer.</span><br />
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Upper Picketts Wood, Land East of the Railway Line</div>
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Purple Hairstreak (<i>Favonius quercus</i>), LERL</div>
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Green Hairstreak (<i>Callophrys rubi</i>), NWZ</div>
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41 species of principal importance under the NERC Act in England. It typically
occurs in small colonies, and on our well-recorded site it seems this species
may occasionally fall under the observational threshold.</span></div>
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Grizzled Skipper (<i>Pyrgus malvae</i>)</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Grizzled Skipper - aberrant form</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Another surprise was finding <b>Marbled White</b> (<i>Melanargia
galathea</i>) in the Land East transect along the Y-lagoon footpath; it is
likely to have blown over from the Gatwick Stream floodplain. We have many
records of this species along the stream banks and the River Mole.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Small
Tortoiseshe</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b>ll</b> (<i>Aglais
urticae</i>) seemed to do better than last year (with only 2 spotted in the NWZ
in 2018). This year in NWZ, 6 individuals were seen in the first week with the
odd individual spotted throughout the summer. A single individual was reported
on 3 separate occasions in LERL.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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influx of <b>Painted Lady</b> (<i>Vanessa cardui</i>)
showed up in LERL toward the end of June, with a peak count of 8. In NWZ there
was another influx as 10 individuals were counted in mid-August. Vince then
confirmed breeding on site when he discovered caterpillars feeding amongst
thistles.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Clouded
Yellow</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> (<i>Colias
croceus</i>) and <b>Brimstone</b> (<i>Gonepteryx rhamni</i>) were missing from the
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Hairstreak</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> (<i>Satyrium
w-album</i>) was seen just outside of LERL transect in 2018 and counted as a
roving record, but was missed entirely from the site this year. The species is
often recorded on the northern section of the River Mole, which is off the NWZ transect. <b>Purple Emperors</b> (<i>Apatura iri</i>s) have been previously seen
here too; a lone female was seen egg-laying in 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Dingy
Skipper</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> (<i>Erynnis
tages</i>) typically occurred in good numbers in the NWZ (a peak count of 10 were seen on one day).
Roving records have previously picked up this species in LERL 2016, but it has
not been seen since. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Brown Hairstreak</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">
(<i>Thecla betulae</i>) occurred on both transects
again this year, however in slightly lower numbers (a peak count of 2 compared
to 5 in the NWZ in 2018).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Fritillary</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> (<i>Argynnis
paphia</i>) were in good numbers in LERL in this year, with a peak count of 9
in mid-July. Also good numbers of <b>White
Admiral</b> (<i>Limenitis camilla</i>) were
seen along the woodland glades in LERL, although most were just outside of our
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Out of a potential 33 species, 30 species in total
were recorded across the transects this year, not inclusive of the White-letter
Hairstreak in LERL which counts as a roving record. A peak count of 633
individual butterflies occurred in the NWZ on July 1<sup>st</sup> 2019 - that was a long day! The
highest species count on any one day was 20 in LERL on July 16<sup>th</sup>.
The species total for NWZ was 28 (one less than last year) and 27 for LERL.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the last recorded year of all butterfly species in the biodiversity areas at
Gatwick, based on our butterfly survey data and roving records from 2012 to
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<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Yellow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Colias
croceus<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Comma<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Polygonia
c-album<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Common
Blue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Polyommatus
icarus<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Dingy
Skipper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Erynnis
tages<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Essex
Skipper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Thymelicus
lineola<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Gatekeeper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Pyronia
tithonus<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 10;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Green
Hairstreak<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Callophrys
rubi<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 11;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Green-veined
White<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Pieris
napi<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 12;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Grizzled
Skipper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Pyrgus
malvae<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 13;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Holly
Blue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/species.php?species=argiolus"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">Celastrina
argiolus</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 14;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Large
Skipper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ochlodes
sylvanus<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 15;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Large
White<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Pieris
brassicae<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 16;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Marbled
White<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Melanargia
galathea<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 17;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Meadow
Brown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Maniola
jurtina<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 18;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Orange-tip<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Anthocharis
cardamines<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 19;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Painted
Lady<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Vanessa cardui<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 20;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Peacock<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Inachis
io<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 21;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Purple
Emperor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Apatura
iris<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 22;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Purple
Hairstreak<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Neozephyrus
quercus<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 23;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Red
Admiral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Vanessa
atalanta<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 24;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ringlet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Aphantopus
hyperantus<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 25;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Silver-washed
Fritillary<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Argynnis
paphia<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 26;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Small
Copper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lycaena
phlaeas<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 27;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Small
Heath<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Coenonympha
pamphilus<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 28;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Small
Skipper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Thymelicus
sylvestris<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 29;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Small
Tortoiseshell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Aglais
urticae<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 30;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Small
White<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Pieris
rapae<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 31;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Speckled
Wood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Pararge
aegeria<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 32;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">White
Admiral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Limenitis
camilla<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" valign="bottom" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "ms gothic";">✔<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 33; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">White-letter
Hairstreak<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 104.25pt;" valign="bottom" width="139"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Satyrium
w-album<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Total no. species</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
NWZ = 28</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
LERL = 27</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Species previously recorded but not detected on one or both transects in 2019</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 408px;">
<tbody>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;">
<td nowrap="" style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Common name<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.0pt;" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Species name<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">NWZ<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 48.0pt;" width="64"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">LERL<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 118.0pt;" width="157"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Brimstone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 92.0pt;" width="123"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Gonepteryx
rhamni<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
</td>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">2018<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Clouded
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<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Colias
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">2018<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">2017<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">2019<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">2016<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">2016<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">2019<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">2018<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-83440078930538878942019-12-19T04:47:00.000-08:002019-12-19T05:07:41.030-08:00Early winter bird survey - North West Zone December 2019<span style="text-align: left;">Just as we pull up in the car to the start of the transect, Tom Forward laments his wish to see a Black Redstart in the UK, after not having seen one for so many years.</span><br />
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Before I even switch off the engine, we spot a small bird bobbing up and down on a concrete wall.<br />
Can I get a whoop whoop Tom...<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: center;">A blooming<b> Black Redstart</b> (</span><span style="text-align: center;"><i>Phoenicurus ochruros</i>) is our first species of the day!! </span></span><span style="text-align: center;">This really is an exciting find; a red-listed species which was previously recorded as breeding at Gatwick (during my first year here in 2012), however we've had no reports of them for a number of years now.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> They are a very scarce bird in the UK, with only around 40 breeding pairs and 400 birds overwintering. </span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="text-align: center;">Tom F. must have been thinking the habitat looked just right for this species, on the urban edge of the airfield. This one seems to be a juvenile male in its first winter plumage; it flies up to perch at the top of the new Boeing hangar. At the end of the survey when we returned to the car, we were even treated to its bizarre scratchy song...</span><br />
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Our transect begins at the new Boeing Hangar, following the length of the River Mole through the North West Zone. At the old concrete batching works, as well as Black Redstart we pick up another red-listed species; <b>Grey Wagtail </b>(<i>Motacilla cinerea</i>) along with <b>Dunnock</b> (<i>Prunella modularis</i>), which is amber-listed. Like Robins at this time of year and our Black Redstart, the Dunnocks are busily singing away.<br />
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It turns out to be a hectic start to the transect, with a <b>Kestrel</b> (<i>Falco tinnunculus</i>), amber-listed, hovering over the scrub and a pair of <b>Stonechat</b> <i>Saxicola rubicola</i> perched up on Teasel seed heads.</div>
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Wren <i>Troglodytes troglodytes</i> <a href="https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/wren/" target="_blank">RSPB</a></div>
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The grasslands are good and frosty this morning, with plenty of standing water, so fingers crossed that our wellies are up to the task (normally one or both of us are a bit leaky). A pair of <b>Reed Buntings</b> (<i>Emberiza schoeniclus</i>), amber-listed, can be heard calling from down at the river side.</div>
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After picking up a few species along the southern edge of Brockley Wood, we push through the scrub and move down toward the river reed beds. Pausing here just for a moment produces the faithful sound of <b>Water Rail</b> <i>Rallus aquaticus</i> squealing deep within the reeds.<br />
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The habitat mosaics here are pretty special. The area has been undergoing natural processes since this section of the River Mole was realigned and designed as a floodplain meadow in 1999. The western edge of Brockley Wood now graduates into mixed scrub habitat and long grass, which in turn blends into shorter grass and the floodplain meadow.</div>
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Intersecting habitats result in a high availability of ecological niches, which in turn results in a lot of different species. The only thing missing from these ecosystems are the larger herbivores and other animals which would have managed them, which means that we have to do a degree of the grass and scrub management ourselves.</div>
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However, some of the local mammals still leave their mark...<br />
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Over to the north of Brockley Wood (likely named for the Badgers), as we poke our heads in a few <b>Wood Pigeon</b> (<i>Columba palumbus</i>) clatter off through the canopy, but otherwise all seems quiet. A lone <b>Nuthatch</b> (<i>Sitta europaea</i>) calls in the distance.<br />
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Rounding the corner of a reed bed, we are greeted by a flurry of beige-coloured feathers and a pinging sound....<br />
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This is my first ever clear sighting of this species, and even Tom F. hasn't seen one in years. It<span style="text-align: center;"> seems to be a lone male</span> which is likely just stopping off for winter, or may have been pushed out of another more suitable habitat, but what an incredible record and such an affirming tick for the River Mole reed beds. I actually got a bit choked up!<br />
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This section of the river is maturing nicely since its realignment, so perhaps we are now starting to see just the right ratios of scrub and reed habitat intermixed with floodplain grassland. It will be exciting to see what else turns up in the next few years.<br />
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Pressing on along the floodplain, we are treated to another rare sight; a <b>Water Rail</b>! This is unusual for us as we normally only ever hear them. It flutters across our path, its long legs tucked in but feet protruding out in front as it disappears into the reeds.<br />
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As we reach the end of the transect, we are treated to close up views of a <b>Buzzard</b> (<i>Buteo buteo</i>) carrying food in its talons, with two <b>Jackdaws</b> (<i>Corvus monedula</i>) winging their way in lazy pursuit.</div>
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<b>Species<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Scientific name<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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1<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bearded Tit<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Panurus biarmicus<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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2<o:p></o:p></div>
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Black Redstart<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Phoenicurus ochruros<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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3<o:p></o:p></div>
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Blackbird<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Turdus merula<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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4<o:p></o:p></div>
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Blue Tit<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Cyanistes caeruleus<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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5<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bullfinch<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Pyrrhula pyrrhula<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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6<o:p></o:p></div>
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Buzzard<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Buteo buteo<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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7<o:p></o:p></div>
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Carrion Crow<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Corvus corone<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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8<o:p></o:p></div>
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Coot<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Fulica atra<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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9<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dunnock<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Prunella modularis<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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10<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fieldfare<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Turdus pilaris<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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11<o:p></o:p></div>
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Goldcrest<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Regulus regulus<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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12<o:p></o:p></div>
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Goldfinch<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Carduelis carduelis<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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13<o:p></o:p></div>
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Great Spotted Woodpecker<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Dendrocopos major<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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14<o:p></o:p></div>
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Great Tit<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Parus major<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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15<o:p></o:p></div>
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Green Woodpecker<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Picus viridis<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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16<o:p></o:p></div>
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Grey Wagtail<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Motacilla cinerea<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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17<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jackdaw<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Coloeus monedula<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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18<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jay<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Garrulus glandarius<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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19<o:p></o:p></div>
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Kestrel<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Falco tinnunculus<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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20<o:p></o:p></div>
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Long-tailed Tit<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Aegithalos caudatus<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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21<o:p></o:p></div>
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Magpie<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Pica pica<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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22<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mallard<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Anas platyrhynchos<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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23<o:p></o:p></div>
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Meadow Pipit<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Anthus pratensis<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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24<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pied Wagtail (yarrellii)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Motacilla alba yarrellii<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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28<o:p></o:p></div>
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Redwing<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Turdus iliacus<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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29<o:p></o:p></div>
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Reed Bunting<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Emberiza schoeniclus<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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30<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ring-necked Parakeet<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Psittacula krameri<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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31<o:p></o:p></div>
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Robin<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Erithacus rubecula<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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32<o:p></o:p></div>
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Song Thrush<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Turdus philomelos<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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33<o:p></o:p></div>
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Starling<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Sturnus vulgaris<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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34<o:p></o:p></div>
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Stock Dove<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Columba oenas<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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35<o:p></o:p></div>
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Stonechat<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Saxicola rubicola<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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36<o:p></o:p></div>
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Treecreeper<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Certhia familiaris<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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37<o:p></o:p></div>
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Water Rail<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Rallus aquaticus<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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38<o:p></o:p></div>
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Woodpigeon<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Columba palumbus<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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39<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wren<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Troglodytes troglodytes<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Guest post: Brad Scott (Sussex Botanical Recording Society)</h4>
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River Mole track, North West Zone</div>
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The bryophyte survey of Gatwick started in 2018, focusing on the eastern part of the estate, and this activity has now continued during 2019, exploring the western area, along the River Mole and Brockley Wood. Both parts of the site contain largely similar species, though the character of the two areas is different, and a good number of species were recorded this year which had not been found before.<br />
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The corridor of trees, scrub, grass and banks along the River Mole at the north of the site contains a relatively limited flora. Grass and scrub contain the common species <i>Brachythecium rutabulum</i>, <i>Calliergonella cuspidata</i> and <i>Kindbergia praelonga</i>, and common epiphytes are found throughout the area. Willow is a particularly rich host for epiphytic bryophytes, and consequently on the trees along the river can be found <i>Cryphaea heteromalla</i>, <i>Metzgeria furcata</i>, <i>Metzgeria violacea</i>, <i>Orthotrichum affine</i>, <i>O. diaphanum</i>, <i>O. lyellii</i>, <i>O. pulchellum</i>, <i>Radula complanata</i>, <i>Syntrichia laevipila</i>, <i>S. latifolia</i> and <i>Ulota phyllantha</i>, some in good quantity. On the river banks and other frequently inundated areas can be found <i>Platyhypnidium riparioides</i>.<br />
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<i>Syntrichia latifolia</i></div>
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Path edges and soil are often colonised by small acrocarpous bryophyte species, which include <i>Barbula unguiculata, Dicranella staphylina,</i> various<i> Didymodon </i>species and <i>Pseudocrossidium hornschuchianum</i>, and the liverwort<i> Lunularia cruciata</i>. Many of these are part of a dynamic flora, changing over the years as larger species move in. This means that some transient taxa can be found, the most significant being the small frilly-leaved liverwort <i>Fossombronia caespitiformis</i>, which is a rare colonist with a Mediterranean-Atlantic distribution. A more common species in this genus was found in 2015 in the eastern part of the Gatwick estate; these can only be determined with fertile plants, with capsules present, so that the decoration of the spores can be examined. It sounds harder than it is. <i>Fossombronia caespitiformis</i> was found with <i>Weissia controversa</i> var. <i>controversa</i> on an otherwise bare bank about 10m back from the river.<br />
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<i>F. caespitiformis</i> spore</div>
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The middle section of the river comprises slightly richer wooded habitats, including species such as <i>Atrichum undulatum, Eurhynchium striatum </i>and <i>Mnium hornum</i>. Some additional epiphytes were also found, such as the tiny liverwort <i>Cololejeunea minutissima </i>(often, but not always, on Ash), <i>Orthotrichum stramineum </i>and <i>Zygodon viridissimus</i>, with its distinctive longitudinally septate gemmae.<i> Brachythecium albicans</i> can be found on various sandy banks, and a number of other common species associated with buildings, concrete and similar substrates occur.<br />
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River Mole at high flow</div>
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The southern-most section has a slightly different character, with occasional patches of the large scented liverwort<i> Conocephalum conicum</i> above the water by the river, and the moss <i>Oxyrrhynchium speciosum</i> in among the wet, scrubby area west of Larkins Lane; this is rare in the south-east, and I had to compare my sample with some material collected a few years ago in Cambridgeshire on a meeting of British Bryological Society. Additional epiphytes were recorded along the river and in Brockley Wood, such as <i>Syntrichia papillosa, Ulota crispa </i>and <i>Zygodon conoideus</i>, and large areas of drainage and boundary banks near Horley Road were often abundantly covered with the scarce moss <i>Epipterygium tozeri</i>. This species has a world distribution which is mainly of xerophilous Mediterranean communities. In the UK it is at the edge of its range, and is mostly known from Devon, Cornwall and south-west Wales, with scattered records in other southern counties.<br />
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This second survey has turned up a number of fairly common species which were not recorded in 2018, plus a few rarer ones, bringing the total to 96 taxa, which is a very good number for a low Weald site. Some of these may have been overlooked, while others either have little suitable habitat across Gatwick as a whole, or within LERL. The river, with its frequent willows, provides good habitat for a wide range of epiphytes, as well as several species that occur on the edge of flowing freshwater habitats. Disturbed soil often hosts many early colonising species, and the various groundwork and other activities provides considerable opportunity for many different bryophytes to thrive. Most of the site is neutral to basic, as evidenced by the species present, but some areas contain more calcifugous species.<br />
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Continuing attention to the site in the coming years may well reveal additional species, and the slowly-changing flora may be profitably monitored as the years go by, as new groundwork is undertaken, and the recent landscaping settles and matures.Rachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-67985152847182457972019-11-28T00:36:00.000-08:002019-11-29T07:39:48.068-08:00Two wings are better than four<span style="font-family: inherit;">Two weeks ago I attended the Introduction to Flies course with the British Entomological and Natural History Society (<a href="http://www.benhs.org.uk/home/" target="_blank"><b>BENHS</b></a>), at their headquarters at Dinton Pastures Country Park. </span>The centre is a very friendly and encouraging place, with volunteer tutors helping entomologists to improve their microscopy skills, receive guidance and gain confidence in different invertebrate groups.<br />
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'Why study flies?' is a question we are asked A LOT when out in the field (members of public initially assume we are catching butterflies). As well as being important pollinators, they perform a wide variety of ecosystem functions. They make up a big part of the foodchain for other wildlife, they help to break down rotting organic matter and contribute to nutrient cycles. Without flies, quite frankly us vertebrates would not be here.<br />
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We don't often need to catch butterflies and the other larger 'macroinverts' for identification, as many are doable in the field or with a clear photograph. Also, there is only a small handful of butterfly species to become familiar with (there are 33 at Gatwick). Identification of flies however can be subtle, as they can be very small and are a huge group of insects, with over 7,180 species in the UK vs. just 59 butterflies!<br />
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What makes a fly a fly? They are defined by their scientific name Diptera, which means two wings. They would have four, but the rear<span style="text-align: center;"> pair of wings have evolved into halteres; two stick-like organs which are essential for balance and control, arguably making flies the best fliers. </span></div>
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Dipterist extraordinaires Barbara and John Ismay led the workshop, with excellent introductory presentations aimed at just the right level of detail. We then sat at the microscope stations and each attendee was given a box of specimens, each labelled only with a number. It was up to us to run through the key and attempt to get each one down to a family.<br />
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The key to families of Diptera was pretty simple and easy to use. I will share a few of the initial steps below....</div>
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Step 1. Is your body plan freaky as heck, or do you basically look like a fly?</div>
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The <a href="http://www.benhs.org.uk/home/" target="_blank">BENHS</a> workshops and field meetings are free and run by expert volunteers. If you do manage to get along to one of the sessions then I highly recommend that you sign up for membership to this worthy organisation.</div>
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This rather annoying <b>Grey Squirrel </b>(<i>Sciurus carolinensis</i>) became obsessed, filling up most of the memory card. It had a good chew on the raft corners.<br />
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Phew, got away with it this time - the water has receded quite a bit.<br />
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Now something WAS just on the right hand corner of the raft in that final clip; you can hear as it splashes into the water. <span style="text-align: center;">What could it have been, a Mallard? Moorhen? A mystery wetland mammal?!</span></div>
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I'll put this camera out again when the weather improves, although perhaps aim for a wider angle (and safer height).Rachel Bickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047450016319682146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972291433153672639.post-81708847745061049972019-08-28T05:28:00.000-07:002019-08-28T05:51:20.941-07:00Working with a live specimenOn Friday I found this potter wasp (one of the small, solitary nesting wasps) running around on the landscape contractor's bright green car. I thought I'd have a crack at identifying it to species using just a hand lens, which turned out to be an arduous way to spend a Saturday...<br />
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Step 1: Put wasp in tube into the fridge to anesthetise<br />
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I'm just not sure whether this is simply the normal join between two ventral plates on the abdomen. Looking ahead in the rest of the key, it refers to the underside of the 2nd ventral plate, but my pictures are not clear enough. This is where we get stuck without using a microscope and other preserved specimens for comparison.</div>
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For many small invertebrates, photographs can only really take you so far in terms of identification, so I'll be told by entomologists that I should have kept the specimen. But seeing as I have a backlog of other material to microscope...</div>
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See ya <i>Ancistrocerus </i>sp., back to caterpillar hunting you go. </div>
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