Survey Time

We have had a busy week monitoring what is on the reserve this month.

We had the Natural history Society of Northumbria in doing a botany survey, thanks to Brenda Astley for organising this. Below is a link to the list of plants identified.

Then we had a moth survey led by Brian Harle.

Below are a few pics of some of the moths that were captured.

Brian inspects the traps
Liz & Marty identifying a moth
A couple of Poplar Hawk moths
Clouded Border
Barred Yellow
Beautiful Carpet
Northern Spinach
Coronet
Sallow Kitten

So we are now up to 199 species of moths identified on the reserve.

Then finally we had a bird ringing session led by David Noble-Rollin.

David and Jenny checking information on a captured Jay
Jay showing it’s beautiful wing plumage
Jenny battling through the undergrowth to check the hedge net.

2 thoughts on “Survey Time”

  1. Hi Pete,
    Tried downloading list of plants, but doesn’t seem to work. It might be something I’m doing wrong.

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