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3/Feb/25 - Week 5 of 52
Guess who refreshed the page again!!! This entry is never gonna be completed
Anyway, things are starting to improve a little, so there's that. This week seems a little quiet at first, but I'm pretty happy with it! I've been experimenting with some focus stacking for a handful of shots, and I reckon it works out pretty well in a couple cases here - though it definitely isn't perfect for me. Moreso my bad technique, but either way there can be some... issues.
Wish I could do something with this one, I'll probably come back to it someday, you can just about see the springtail hanging out on the sprig of moss on the left!
Anyway, I wanna do more here, so have some music while you scroll, hand picked. Big up the pannacotta!!
Notable Observations
All garden finds this time round again, but if it's anything, I'm gearing up for a pretty big outing ready for Week 8's entry, keep an eye out!
Total Observations: 55
Most numerous species: Entomobrya intermedia (7 observations)
Individual Interesting Observations
Entomobrya lanuginosa
Thursday (Feb 6th)
Happy to see more of these! This guy is the 2nd one I've ever found in my garden, and the first in a good couple of months.
Pirate Spider Eggsac (Ero sp.)
Friday (Jan 31st)
Quite a lot of these in the garden, here's a bit of a crap stack of one. Pirate spiders create these weird dangling sacs, they're brilliant!
Wall Screw-Moss (Tortula muralis)
Thursday (Feb 6th)
And here's a nice atmospheric single-shot of that ill-fated moss from the introduction... Springtail still visible if you really squint, though not quite posing like it was before.
Goldcrest (Regulus regulus)
Saturday (Feb 8th)
Saw this guy in December 2024, and just heard from it again, so that's another bird to this year's list! That's the highest pitched call that runs through the whole recording.
Unidentified Rust Fungus
Thursday (Feb 6th)
Cannot ID these for the life of me, aside from maybe P. urticata, which looks like some sort of weird alien lifeform... Anyway, this is one of the extra good ones, starting to eat(?) away at some introduced American Willowherb, not something you want in the garden anyway.
Onychiurinae sp.
Saturday (Feb 8th)
Another location logged for some of my favourite springtails in my garden... They're so chubby
Tomocerus sp.
Sunday (Feb 9th)
Okay, this one confused me a bit in the field, but fairly certain the ID is correct here - a funny looking one anyway! I think this is a pretty young specimen, which has lost its silvery scales to give it that pale colour underneath, that or it just hasn't developed them yet? Couldn't say which!
Honourable Mention:
SeedpodSaturday (Feb 8th)
This one is kind of cheating, since I suspect it to be from a garden plant of some sort rather than anything wild, but I couldn't NOT put it in, this was another focus stack test, and probably the best one from the week. So weird!
Breakdown
Goal Progress
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Not the most exciting week, but we're back in routine, and hopefully I'll have some cooler photos to share with you as the year goes on now! To see all my observations for this week logged on iNaturalist, click here.
To see all of my observations for the year to date, click here.
What did you see this week? Let me know in the comments!
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picmiz
its always nice to see those gummy worm springtail things! Also, i dont know how cameras work, but that first picture sure is odd! I thought it was some sort of result of circuit bending at first.
Wait I finally spotted the bug in the first picture!! Thats such a tiny springtail!!!!
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Erah Mar
What a neat week!
I really like that spider sac, that is so interesting. I've never seen anything like it before over here in the states. Or maybe I'm just not looking hard enough. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Excellent musical accompaniment, too. Its nice to hear new music.
This week I have seen: three male Broad-tailed Hummingbirds (Selasphorus platycercus) fighting over flowers at my work (I work at a plant nursery). I have also seen the stray cat that lives under my house. He is a good baby.
Hummingbirds are one of the things I'm most jealous of Americans for! Especially in terms of birds, there's so much to see over there, I think 100 would be far too low a target for the birs yearlistif I weren't European.
Pirate Spiders have a pretty global distribution, and they'll build an eggsac pretty much anywhere they can hang from, so keep an eye out! They're all pretty small though, and not the convenient bright white colour (Or green in this case! --> https://uk.inaturalist.org/observations/233482267 ) usually associated with spiders, making them a little harder to see. Good luck!
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