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19/Mar/25 - Week 11 of 52
Busy week for me, I'll be real, I'm lowkey stressed. But who gaf, creature time!
Tuesday might be a slightly better day to release these, so might trial that for a while.
^^Nevermind, damn the spacehey servers
Notable Observations
Total Observations: 136
Most numerous species: Hammered Shield Lichen (3 observations)
Individual Interesting Observations
Australian Flatworm (Australoplana sanguinea)
Friday (Mar 14th)
Really one to look out for in the UK!!! Heavily invasive, imported from Oceania. This tiny guy could've grown up to 80cm, and would eat literally anything that moves and would fit in its mouth.
Bittercress (Cardamine sp.)
Friday (Mar 14th)
I love a good tiny flower. Actually considered a weed of sorts, though I think it's great to see it growing
Red-tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus lapidarius)
Saturday (Mar 15th)
One of my favourite bees! Very descriptive name anyway, loved watching this girl hang about.
Common Shiny Woodlouse (Oniscus asellus)
{Very Blurry} Orchesella cincta
Dicyrtomina ornata
Lepidocyrtus sp.
Saturday (Mar 15th)
Group photo! Three springtails and a woodlouse sounds like some eclectic folksy pop album.
Insect Larva Shed
Saturday (Mar 15th)
Not sure what exactly this thing came from, though some sort of aquatic beetle is my best guess.
Goldcrest (Regulus regulus)
Saturday (Mar 15th)
This Goldcrest is a pretty regular visitor to my garden, I already have some footage of it to share in next week's entry. Unfortunately, something that I've seen coming for a long time finally happened, as I got a little too cocky stood underneath it...
Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)
Saturday (Mar 15th)
Beautiful species, though one that is still suffering the effects of some considerable population decline that has been ongoing since the 70s unfortunately
Saturday (Mar 15th)
Another focus stacking test, not a very technically impressive shot, but one of my best results yet!
Rook (Corvus frugilegus)
Sunday (Mar 16th)
Finally caught this one! One of the slightly less common corvids around this area, and one which makes for 6 out of 8 British corvids spotted so far this year, leaving only the far less common, and more localised Hooded Crow and Chough.
For those curious, that list of 8 is:
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Magpie
Rook
Raven
Jay
Hooded Crow
Chough
Orange Ladybird (Halyzia sedecimguttata)
Sunday (Mar 16th)
Which makes for ladybird species #2 of 2025, and one of my favourites at that! Nestled amongst mosses and dust lichens on some tree bark. 46 species of ladybird in the UK for those curious, which I will not be naming.
Fungus?
Sunday (Mar 16th)
Under the bark of some rotting wood, looks incredible, like tiny pompoms!!!
Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)
Sunday (Mar 16th)
Love a gif, classic filetype.
Common Pocket-Moss (Fissidens taxifolius)
Sunday (Mar 16th)
Very interesting looking leaves up close, I love this! Surprised I wasn't too aware of this species until I found it myself.
Common Pellia (Pellia epiphylla)
Sunday (Mar 16th)
Quite a cool liverwort, their fruiting bodies are insane, quite long for the size of the plant itself, and they grow in the hundreds like tendrils, almost reminds me of fungi growing from a rotting corpse in a weird way...
Swan’s-neck Thyme-Moss (Mnium hornum)
Sunday (Mar 16th)
Very fitting name again, does look like a sprig of Thyme! Not sure where the Swan Neck comes from though
Breakdown
Goal Progress
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Currently writing this closing part while I wait for Spacehey to go back up. Servers have been down for a good hour or so now, and I'm going a little crazy. But anyway, 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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Erah Mar
Oh wow, what a roundup this week! From the shit-strike to the gif, it was all a delight. And this week made me realize I have never actually seen a picture of a rook. I thought ravens had large beaks, but they are surely beat out by their cousins, that thing is MASSIVE!
Can't wait for next week!
picmiz
why do british people call them ladybIRDS when they are clearly BUGS
also i love that second photo of the shiny woodlouse thing
well they're not bugs either
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okay. well, ladybeetle
or for the british, ladybeatles
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