A Year in the Valley

A Year in the Valley

Discovering the flora and fauna in a small square of Portmellon Valley

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    Here is the tally of things I have seen in the watermeadow so far. They may not all have blog posts, but I will try and include links:

    PHOTOGRAPHED & POSTED

    PHOTOGRAPHED & POSTED

    PHOTOGRAPHED & POSTED

    • Drinker Moth
    • Hemlock Water Dropwort
    • Lackey Moth
    • Pendulous Sedge
    • Cuckoo Flower
    • Greater Tussock Sedge
    • Yellow Iris
    • Cocksfoot Grass
    • Common Sorrel
    • Creeping Buttercup
    • Foxglove
    • Reed Canary Grass
    • Woody Nightshade
    • Water Horsetail
    • Soft Rush
    • Ribwort Plantain
    • Birdsfoot Trefoil
    • Housemartin
    • Herb Robert
    • Lesser Stitchwort
    • Marsh Bedstraw
    • Cleavers
    • Water Forget-Me-Not
    • White Clover
    • Common Mallow
    • Purple Toadflax
    • Blood Vein Moth
    • Beautiful Demoiselle
    • Red Admiral
    • Seven-spot Ladybird
    • Hedge Bindweed
    • Common Green Bottle
    • Green Dock Beetle
    • Common Carpet Moth
    • Common Nettle
    • Fen Nettle
    • Gypsywort
    • Peacock Butterfly
    • Green-veined White
    • Branched Burr-reed
    • Yarrow
    • Common Knapweed
    • Common Red Soldier Beetle
    • Fourteen-spot Ladybird
    • Great Willowherb
    • Crane Fly
    • Common Green Grasshopper
    • Common Field Grasshopper
    • Conehead
    • Cut-leaved Cranesbill
    • Selfheal
    • Wild Angelica
    • Tortoiseshell Butterfly
    • Small White
    • Wild Teasel
    • Cinnamon Bug
    • Thick-legged Flower Beetle
    • Wall Brown
    • Meadow Brown
    • Housefly
    • Yellow Dung Fly
    • Common Toad
    • German Wasp
    • Common Wasp
    • Melanostoma mellinum hoverfly
    • Common Carder Bee
    • Common Daisy
    • Swift
    • Purple Loosestrife
    • Gatekeeper
    • Speckled Wood
    • Common Darter
    • Azure Damselfly
    • Froghopper
    • Goldfinch
    • Montbretia
    • Dark Bush Cricket
    • Turnip Moth
    • White Ermin Moth
    • Common Lizard
    • Common Fleabane
    • Long Hoverfly
    • Water Mint
    • Water Pepper
    • Marmalade Hoverfly
    • Lesser Dung Fly
    • Ichneumon Wasp
    • Sickle Wasp
    • White Lipped Snail
    • Brown Lipped Snail
    • Brown Garden Snail
    • Small Heath Butterfly
    • Comma
    • Knot Grass Moth
    • Hairy Shield Bug
    • Dock Bug
    • Tortoise Bug
    • Common Marble Moth
    • Rush Marble Moth
    • Field Vole
    • THIS COLUMN = 100
    • Orb-weaver Spider
    • Wolf Spiders
    • Elephant Hawk Moth
    • Mournful Wasp
    • Black Garden Ant
    • Common Green Shield Bug
    • Common Harvestman
    • European Drone-fly
    • Clover Head Weevil
    • Moth Fly
    • Blue Bottle
    • Flesh Fly
    • Common Blue Butterfly
    • Bronze Shield Bug
    • Midges
    • Mole (evidence)
    • White-tailed Bumblebee
    • Sea Buckthorn
    • Bulrush (Reed Mace)
    • Ground Ivy
    • Garden Cross Spider
    • Common Dandelion
    • Cat’s-ear
    • Smooth Sow Thistle
    • Burdock Gall Fly
    • Birch Sawfly
    • Spanish Slug
    • Large Red Slug
    • Eristalis tenax Common Drone-Fly
    • Badger
    • Giant Willow Aphid
    • Robin
    • Alder
    • Woolly Alder Sawfly
    • Bramble
    • Marsh Pea
    • Male Fern
    • Glistening Ink Cap
    • Californian Poppy
    • Sparrowhawk
    • Fairy Inkcap
    • Slow worm
    • Kingcup
    • Oscinella Frit Fly
    • Planthopper
    • Bronze Beetle
    • Common Chickweed
    • Small-flowered Crane’s-bill
    • Grey, Beech or Ashen Knight
    • Wood Mouse
    • Harvest Mouse (evidence)
    • Long-tailed Tit
    • Moorhen
    • Water Shrew
    • Mallard
    • Blue Tit
    • Carrion Crow
    • Fruit Fly
    • False Castor Oil Plant
    • Silver Birch
    • Dunnock
    • Black Slug
    • Sycamore
    • Earthworm
    • Springy Turf Moss
    • Feather Moss
    • Great Tit
    • Kestrel
    • Wood Pigeon
    • Herring Gull
    • Blackbird
    • Broad-leaved Dock
    • Common Ivy
    • Wren
    • House Sparrow
    • Common Water-starwort
    • Buzzard
    • Magpie
    • Little Egret
    • Common Field-speedwell
    • Thyme-leaved Speedwell
    • Jackdaw
    • Winter Gnats
    • Pied Wagtail
    • Common Pheasant
    • Filamentous Algae
    • Grey Heron
    • Mistle Thrush
    • Willow Warbler
    • Jay
    • Stinking Iris
    • Lesser Celandine
    • Crescent-cup Liverwort
    • Creeping Cinquefoil
    • Nursery Web Spider
    • Ruby Tiger Moth Caterpillar
    • Canada Geese
    • Early Bumblebee
    • Water Rail
    • Oakmoss
    • THIS COLUMN = 100
    • TALLY SO FAR = 200
    • Seed Weevil
    • Chewing Gum Lichen
    • Blue Shieldbug
    • Grey Squirrel
    • King Alfred’s Cakes
    • Flea Beetle
    • Common Shiny Woodlouse
    • Compost Worm
    • Flat-backed Millipede
    • Snake Millipede
    • Three-cornered Garlic
    • Black Oil Beetle
    • Weeping Willow
    • Littoral Whiplash Rove Beetle
    • Grey Willow Hybrid
    • Chiffchaff
    • Goat Willow
    • Crust Fungus
    • Ground Beetle
    • Disc Snail
    • Redwing
    • Primrose
    • Tutsan
    • Mountain Ash
    • Fringed Willowherb
    • Leaf Miner
    • Common Frog
    • Red-legged Partridge
    • Grey Field Slug
    • Wavy Bittercress
    • Cornsalad
    • Marsh Thistle
    • Oak Eggar
    • Common Figwort
    • Common Dog Violet
    • Platycheirus granditarsus Hoverfly
    • Marsh Cinquefoil
    • Red Campion
    • Staghorn Sumac
    • Orange-tip
    • Mayfly larva
    • Midge larva
    • Wild Strawberry
    • Limonia Fly
    • Japanese Honeysuckle
    • Meadowsweet
    • Ribbon Grass
    • Hawthorn
    • Black-margined Loosestrife Beetle
    • Field Wood-rush
    • Velvet Mite
    • Bladder Snail
    • Capillary Thread-moss
    • Annual Honesty
    • Pampas Grass
    • Bordered Shieldbug
    • Himalayan Honeysuckle
    • Water Slater
    • Pfeiffer’s Amber Snail
    • False Goats Beard
    • Wood Avens
    • Ragwort
    • Brown Willow Beetle
    • Common Stretch Spider
    • White Crane-fly
    • Broad bodied Chaser
    • Bumblebee Plumehorn
    • Marsham’s Nomad Bee
    • Chocolate Mining Bee
    • Tuberous Polypore
    • Common Red-legged Robberfly
    • Snipe Fly
    • Sheet Weaver Spider
    • Hydrothassa marginella Beetle
    • Rust Fly
    • Large Red Damselfly
    • Donacia Simplex Beetle
    • Lesser Trefoil
    • Meadow Plant Bug 
    • Sub-total = 79
    • GRAND TOTAL POSTED = 279

    SEEN but UNIDENTIFIED or UNPHOTOGRAPHED or NOT POSTED

    • Green Woodpecker -bad photo
    • Greater Spotted Woodpecker – bad photo
    • Earwig – bad photo
    • Unarmed Stick-insect (Front garden only)
    • Weasel – got away
    • Black Redstart (Garden only)
    • Bulfinch – in next door’s willow
    • Bat – indistinct photo
    • Cinnabar Moth – got away
    • Some grasses, plants and rushes remain unidentified
    • Sub-total = 10 min.

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