Ημερολόγιο της/του balders

Dates: 6th - 12th May 2024

Weather conditions:
Cool becoming warmer towards the weekend (21-14 degrees), light winds (max. 23mph), dry.

Amphibians:
Lissotriton sp.

Bats (emergence surveys):
06/05/24:
Common Pipistrelle - 1 pass, emerged at 21:48
Leisler’s Bat - 1 pass, 1st recorded at 23:47
Noctule Bat - 2 passes, 1st recorded at 23:47
Serotine - 13 passes, 1st recorded at 22:12
Soprano Pipistrelle - 346 passes, emerged at 20:45

07/05/24:
Barbastelle Bat - 1 passes, 1st recorded at 22:05
Brown Long-eared Bat - 2 passes, 1st recorded at 22:51
Common Pipistrelle - 4 passes, emerged at 21:17
Nathusius's Pipistrelle - 1 pass, 1st recorded at 00:47
Noctule Bat - 6 passes, 1st recorded at 21:32
Serotine - 7 passes, 1st recorded at 21:22
Soprano Pipistrelle - 361 passes, emerged at 20:40

08/05/24:
Brown Long-eared Bat - 1 passes, 1st recorded at 02:43
Common Pipistrelle - 8 passes, emerged at 21:17
Nathusius's Pipistrelle - 2 passes, outside survey recorded at 03:22
Noctule Bat - 40 passes, 1st recorded at 21:35
Serotine - 3 passes, 1st recorded at 21:35
Soprano Pipistrelle - 56 passes, emerged at 20:57

10/05/24:
Common Pipistrelle - 15 passes, emerged at 21:25
Noctule Bat - 271 passes, 1st recorded at 21:32
Serotine - 6 passes, 1st recorded at 22:32
Soprano Pipistrelle - 97 passes, emerged at 20:58

11/05/24:
Common Pipistrelle - tbc passes, emerged at tbc
Noctule Bat - tbc passes, 1st recorded at tbc
Serotine - tbc passes, 1st recorded at tbc
Soprano Pipistrelle - tbc passes, emerged at tbc

Next survey using Echo Meter Touch on 13/05

Beetles:
Abax parallelepipedus - New species
Amara sp
Black Burying Beetle
Chequered Weevil - 1st record for 2024
Chrysolina banksi - 1st record for 2024
Common Cockchafer - 1st record for 2024
Red-headed Cardinal Beetle - 1st record for 2024

Birds:
BlackBird
Blackcap
Blue Tit
Buzzard
Canada Goose
Carrion Crow
Chaffinch
Chiffchaff
Coal Tit
Collared Dove
Cuckoo
Goldfinch
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Great Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Marsh Tit
Mistle thrush
Moorhen - 1st record for 2024
Oystercatcher
Pheasant
Red-legged partridge - 1st record for 2024
Robin
Sky Lark
Song Thrust
Sparrowhawk
Swallow
Tawny Owl
Woodpidgeon
Wren

Butterflies (On transects):
Brimstone
Green-veined White
Large White
Orange-tip
Peacock
Speckled Wood

Caddis flies:
Hydropsyche sp
Stenophylax sp

Dragonflies:
Broad-Bodied Chaser - 1st record for 2024
Emperor Dragonfly - 1st record for 2024
Large Red Damselfly - 1st record for 2024

Flowering plants:
Alexanders
Beech
Black Bryony
Blackthorn
Bluebell
Bracken
Bugle
Common Dandelion
Common Dog-Violet
Common Groundsel
Common Sorrel
Common Twayblade (non-flowering; flower spike eaten)
Common Vetch
Cow Parsley
Cowslip
Cuckoo Flower
Cuckoo-Pint
Dog's mercury
Early Dog-Violet
Early Purple Orchid
Elder (non-flowering)
Germander Speedwell
Greater Stitchwort
Hawthorn
Hazel
Herb Robert
Honeysuckle (non-flowering)
Ivy-Leaved Toadflax
Land Cress (non-flowering)
Lesser Celandine
Lesser Periwinkle
Marsh Thistle (non-flowering)
Pineapple-Weed - 1st record for 2024
Prickly Sowthistle - 1st record for 2024
Primrose
Ragged-Robin
Red Campion
Ribwort Plantain - 1st record for 2024
Round-leaved Mint (non-flowering)
Southern Marsh-Orchid
Sycamore
Water Figwort (non-flowering)
Wavy Bittercress
Wood Forget-Me-Not
Wood Speedwell
Yellow Rattle (non-flowering)

Hymenopteran (Bees & wasps):
Andrena nitida
Common Green-Tenthredo
Grey-patched Mining Bee - New species
Hornet - 1st record for 2024
Red Mason Bee - New species
Variable Tenthredo - New species

Mammals:
West European Hedgehog

Molluscs:
Strawberry Snail - 1st record for 2024

Moths :
Brindled Beauty
Brown Silver-Line
Buff Tip - 1st record for 2024
Clouded Drab
Clouded Silver
Common Marbled Carpet - 1st record for 2024
Common Pug - 1st record for 2024
Common Quaker
Cydia sp
Dark Sword-grass
Early Tooth-Striped
Flame Carpet
Flame Shoulder - 1st record for 2024
Garden Carpet
Great Prominent - 1st record for 2024
Green Carpet
Hebrew Character
Herald
Marbled Coronet - 1st record for 2024
Muslin Moth
Netted Pug - New species
Pale Prominent
Pale Tussock - 1st record for 2024
Peach Blossom - 1st record for 2024
Poplar Hawkmoth - 1st record for 2024
Pseudoswammerdamia combinella - 1st record for 2024
Red Twin-spot Carpet
Sandy Carpet - 1st record for 2024
Scalloped Hazel
Seraphim - New species
Shoulder-Stripe
Silver Y
Silver-ground Carpet
Small Phoenix
Speckled Yellow
Tortricid sp
Tortricid sp
Treble Lines - 1st record for 2024
Water Carpet
White Ermine - 1st record for 2024
Yellow-barred Brindle - 1st record for 2024
Next survey using Heath Trap with 40W actinic tube on 12/05

Orthoptera:
Tetrix sp

Reptiles:
Adder (Night) - 1st record for 2024
Grass snake
Slow-worm (Night)

True flies:
Dark-edged Bee-fly

Summary of emergence surveys (sunset - 30 minutes to sunset + 180 minutes):

Dates recorded:
Barbastelle Bat 16/04 - 07/05
Brandt’s Bat 17/04 - 22/04
Brown Long-eared Bat 04/02 - 08/05
Common Pipistrelle 04/01 - 11/05
Daubenton's Bat 16/04 - 22/04
Grey Long-eared Bat 26/03 - 26/03
Leisler’s Bat 20/03 - 06/05
Lesser Horseshoe Bat 04/01 - 17/04
Myotis sp. 16/03 - 27/04
Nathusius's Pipistrelle 16/04 - 08/05
Natterer's Bat 09/02 - 22/04
Noctule Bat 09/02 - 11/05
Serotine 15/03 - 11/05
Soprano Pipistrelle 04/01 - 11/05
Whiskered Bat 01/04 - 01/04

Recordings made in 2024:

Soprano Pipistrelle 3922
Noctule bat 1302
Common Pipistrelle 370
Lesser Horseshoe bat 102
Serotine bat 58
Natterer's bat 19
Brown Long-eared bat 17
"Myotis species" 10
Leisler’s bat 8
Nathusius's Pipistrelle 7
Daubenton's bat 5
Brandt’s bat 3
Barbastelle bat 2
Grey Long-eared bat 1
Whiskered bat 1
Greater Horseshoe bat Not recorded so far this year
Total of 5827 passes in 55 surveys

First sightings dates for each species are listed; those in bold are new records for the site:

Acleris cristana - 17/03/24
Agonopterix arenella - 12/04/24
Agonopterix heracliana - 01/02/24
Agonopterix ocellana- 13/03/24
Angle Shades (Larva) - 28/01/24
Belted Grass-Veneer - 28/01/24
Brimstone Moth - 01/04/24
Brindled Beauty- 13/03/24
Brindled Pug - 13/03/24
Brown Silver-line - 16/04/24
Buff-Tip 09/05/24
Chestnut - 28/01/24
Clouded Drab - 08/03/24
Clouded Silver - 12/04/24
Common Marbled Carpet - 11/05/24
Common Pug - 09/05/24
Common Quaker - 08/03/24
Dark Sword-grass - 10/04/24
December Moth - 04/01/24
Depressaria daucella - 11/03/24
Diurnea fagella- 13/03/24
Dotted Border - 04/01/24
Double-striped Pug - 16/02/24
Early Grey - 08/03/24
Early Moth - 09/02/24
Early Thorn - 11/03/24
Early Tooth-striped - 30/03/24
Engrailed - 27/04/24
Flame Carpet - 02/05/24
Flame Shoulder - 09/05/24
Garden Carpet - 03/05/24
Great Prominent - 07/05/24
Green Carpet - 16/04/24
Grey Shoulder-Knot - 28/01/24
Hebrew Character - 14/02/24
Herald - 31/03/24
Least Black Arches - 17/04/24
Light Brown Apple Moth - 29/01/24
Lunar Marbled Brown - 12/04/24
Marbled Coronet - 11/05/24
March Moth - 19/02/24
Mottled Grey- 13/03/24
Mottled Umber - 29/01/24
Muslin Moth - 09/04/24
Netted Pug - 07/05/24
Oak Beauty - 20/03/24
Oak-tree Pug - 06/03/24
Pale Pinion - 15/03/24
Pale Prominent - 03/05/24
Pale Tussock - 11/05/24
Peach Blossom - 09/05/24
Poplar Hawkmoth - 11/05/24
Powdered Quaker - 29/03/24
Pseudoswammerdamia combinella - 06/05/24
Red Chestnut - 16/02/24
Red Twin-spot Carpet - 01/04/24
Sandy Carpet - 11/05/24
Shoulder Stripe - 19/03/24
Scalloped Hazel - 02/05/24
Seraphim - 07/05/24
Silver-ground Carpet - 05/05/24
Silver Y - 12/04/24
Small Phoenix - 03/04/24
Small Quaker - 05/03/24
Speckled Yellow - 05/05/24
Square Spot - 01/05/24
Small White Wave - 01/05/24
Stigmella aurella - 11/03/24
Streamer - 07/04/24
Tortricodes alternella - 13/03/24
Treble Lines - 11/05/24
Turnip Moth - 04/04/24
Twenty-Plume Moth - 25/01/24
Twin-spotted Quaker - 09/03/24
V-Pug - 17/03/24
Water Carpet - 13/03/24
White Ermine - 06/05/24
White-marked - 17/03/24
White-shouldered House-moth - 26/04/24
Winter Moth - 19/01/24
Yellow-barred Brindle - 07/05/24

81 species have been recorded in 2024 and 390 species since 2012.

Amphibians:
Smooth Newt - 14/02/24

Birds:
Lesser Whitethroat - 16/04/24
Oystercatcher - 07/02/24

Beetles:
Abax parallelepipedus - 08/05/24
Brown Leaf Beetle (Chrysolina staphylaea) - 09/04/24
Great Blackclock (Pterostichus niger) - 19/02/24
Lathronympha strigana - 08/05/24 - Subject to confirmation
Phyllobius glaucus - 05/05/24

Caddis flies:
Limnephilus sparsus - 31/03/24

Ferns:
Broad Buckler-Fern - 07/04/24
Common Polypody - 05/05/24
Intermediate Polypody - 09/02/24
Lady Fern - 07/04/24

Fungi:
Coral Spot (Nectria cinnabarina) - 22/01/24
Cushion Bracket (Phellinus pomaceus) - 17/02/24
Scurfy Twiglet (Tubaria furfuracea) - 06/03/24
White Brain (Exidia thuretiana) - 06/01/24

Hymenopteran:
Ashy Mining Bee (Andrena cineraria) - 14/04/24
Chocolate Mining Bee (Andrena scotica) - 05/05/24
Cliff Mining Bee (Andrena thoracica) - 31/03/24
Grey-patched Mining Bee (Andrena nitida) - 06/05/24
Marsham's Nomad Bee (Nomada marshamella) - 14/04/24
Orange-legged Furrow Bee (Halictus rubicundus) - 05/04/24
Red Mason Bee (Osmia bicornis) - 06/05/24
Variable Tenthredo (Tenthredo livida) - 11/05/24
Yellow-legged Mining Bee - 01/04/24

Lichens:
Cartilage Lichen - 07/02/24
Common Powderhorn - 05/02/24
Golden Shield Lichen - 09/02/24

Liverwort:
Great Scented Liverwort - 05/02/24
Snakewort (Conocephalum salebrosum) - 31/01/24

Mammals:
Brown Hare - 06/04/24

Moss:
Common Smoothcap - 04/05/24
Fox-tail Feather-Moss - 05/02/24

Millipedes:
Striped Millipede (Ommatoiulus sabulosus) - 13/04/24

Moths:
Belted Grass-Veneer (Euchromius ocellea) - 28/01/24
Netted Pug - 07/05/24
Seraphim - 07/05/24 (Subject to confirmation)
Small White Wave - 01/05/24
Stigmella aurella - 11/03/24
White-marked - 17/03/24

Plants:
Atlantic Ivy - 07/02/24
Common Groundsel - 01/04/24
Early Dog-Violet - 03/03/24
Land Cress - 01/04/24
Lesser Periwinkle - 31/01/24
Wavy Bittercress - 01/05/24 (Subject to confirmation)
Wood Forget-Me-Not - 01/04/24
Wood Speedwell - 04/05/24

Spiders:
Rustic Wolf Spider (Trochosa ruricola) - 12/04/24

True flies:
Sixspot Cranefly - 20/03/24

The number of verified species recorded at this site is 1013 with 51 new species added in 2024.
For a full species list see; https://www.inaturalist.org/lifelists/balders?details_view=observations

Brimstone - 18/03/24 - 09/05/24
Brown Argus - Not seen in 2024 but seen most years
Brown Hairstreak - Not seen in 2024 but seen occasionally over the years
Clouded Yellow - Not seen in 2024 but seen every year
Comma - 18/03/24
Common Blue - Not seen in 2024 but seen every year
Dark Green Fritillary - Not seen in 2024 but seen most years
Dingy Skipper - Not seen in 2024 but seen most years
Gatekeeper - Not seen in 2024 but seen every year
Green Hairstreak - Normally seen in April/May most years
Green-veined White - 01/05/24 - 11/05/24
Holly Blue - 21/04/24
Large Skipper - Not seen in 2024 but seen every year
Large White - 01/05/24 - 11/05/24
Marbled White - Not seen in 2024 but seen every year
Meadow Brown - Not seen in 2024 but seen every year
Monarch - Rare migrant recorded once on 02/10/19
Orange-Tip - 05/04/24 - 11/05/24
Painted Lady - Not seen in 2024 but seen every year
Peacock - 26/02/24 - 11/05/24
Pearl-bordered Fritillary - Normally seen in April/May most years
Purple Hairstreak - Not seen in 2024 but seen most years
Red Admiral - 12/04/24 - 24/04/24
Ringlet - Not seen in 2024 but seen every year
Silver-washed Fritillary - Not seen in 2024 but seen every year
Small Copper - Normally seen in April/May most years
Small Heath - New species first seen in 2023; not seen in 2024.
Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary - Not seen in 2024 but seen most years
Small Skipper - Not seen in 2024 but seen every year
Small Tortoiseshell - Normally seen in April/May most years
Small White - 05/04/24 - 11/05/24
Speckled Wood - 01/04/24 - 11/05/24
Wall Brown - Not seen in 2024 but seen every year