Update on my earlier post 'Anyone know a Coleopterist'. I saw the beetle in the garden again today and armed with the knowledge of spines on the tibiae as the key identifier I was able to identify it definitively as a Lesser Stag BeetleDorcus parallelopipedus - it only had one spine!
Marsh Wren
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A early evening walk in Brooklyn Bridge Park interrupted by a small,
burbling bird at the northernmost of the Freshwater Garden pools on Pier
One. I spent ...
No Splat No Bat
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...I saw virtually no bees or hoverflies, very few large moths (scanning by
torchlight after dark), and recorded virtually no bats (a handful of
Pipistrell...
The Music Book Reader Bulletin
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Noise : A Human History of Sound & Listening by David Hendy (Profile Books,
hdbk, 382pp) A review by Andy Childs. The Oxford Dictionary defines noise
as a ...
Fowlmere with Mr Marsh
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*2nd May 2013*
Fowlmere is an ideal place for bird photography as much of the habitat is
reed beds and short scrub. Therefore, the birds are not too high. ...
Tawny having a tough time
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The nests of Barn and Tawny Owl have been recorded in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire intensively since the mid 1980s. This has provided a wealth of informa...
Crows and Sparrows from NYC to British Columbia
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Many of the birds we saw on our trip to British Columbia have counterparts
back east, whether the same species or a closely related species. A male
White-t...
Kruidenzout uit eigen tuin
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Het idee voor dit kruidenzout ontstond toen ik vorig jaar het internet
afschuimde op zoek naar informatie over de Bulgaarse ui, Nectaroscordum
siculum. I...
Survey Reports 2013
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Most recent first[image: Link]
f = glowing females, m = males, l = larvae. * = Site not previously
reported. Date of maximum numbers only is shown. Links a...