I am a dragonfly .....

.... A gem of the air - flying around without a care ...

But where??

We went to Stover again this evening (after buying a wedding hat in Torquay), but, although we walked completely around the lake and studied virtually every clump of reeds, there was no sign of any dragon or damselflies today. I suppose it was just too cold. We did see heaps of squirrels and water rats, but they don't count!! OK, just the birdies to finish off and that's that exercise over with (until the data stats stuff).

I needed desperately to get out of the house this weekend (yesterday we spent the afternoon at the Marine Aquarium), because I am in danger of cracking up with the hotspot/percentage area debate.

Now I'm off to microwave some chips, cos I'm starving.

The 14 days of Biodiversity

7 Porcello scabers
2 Philoscia muscorum
Many Passer domesticus
and 5 Pyrrhosoma nymphula!!



(or 5 large red damselflies!)

It was a glorious morning, so we drove out to Stover Country Park and did the first count. I didn't think there'd be any to count, as it was extremely cold. But there they were, at the far side of the lake!! Probably there were heaps more, but they were very difficult to spot.



And yesterday I counted the woodlice in the garden (with the help of the hub, because of the spiders ...) and the bird counting is ongoing. It's interesting. It'll be especially interesting when we get all the database results down and can do our regression analysis!!

Apart from that, there's the hotspot/GAP stuff .... I don't want to talk about it. Sometimes I don't know why on earth I'm doing this course. But, must plod on ...