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:
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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.