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22-06-2006, 01:10 PM
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| | | Rarest sightings on your local patch!
Hi,
I thought it may be good to add this thread. Our local patches are usually only special to us but they are often where we have our most memorable wildlife sightings, be it birds, mammals or plants.
I thought we could all put our rarest sightings on our local patches here. They don't have to be rare on a wide scale but rare for your patch!
Best wishes
Kris  |
22-06-2006, 01:50 PM
|  | Frozen | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: N.E. Lincolnshire
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| | | Re: Rarest sightings on your local patch!
Ok here's a few of mine:
Birds: American Robin, Waxwing, Buzzard, Little Owl, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.
Mammals: Water Shrew, Roe Deer. |
22-06-2006, 02:14 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Verwood, Dorset
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| | | Re: Rarest sightings on your local patch!
the rarest "possible" thing i have had in my garden is a sawfly larvae, possible Zaraea aenea, photos & foodplantmatched alas no specimen retained to really confirm. Could have been 2nd or 3rd British record.
Other "good" records are Macrophya albicincta (a Nb notable sawfly) Eulophus bicolor (a parasitic wasp) Mangora acalypha (a pretty heathland spider)
not as obvious as birds but as insect week is coming up......  |
22-06-2006, 02:28 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Apr 2005
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| | | Re: Rarest sightings on your local patch!
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not as obvious as birds but as insect week is coming up
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Coming up? It's here! 19th - 25th June.
henrya |
22-06-2006, 02:33 PM
| | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Verwood, Dorset
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| | | Re: Rarest sightings on your local patch!
insect weekend then? |
22-06-2006, 02:39 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Apr 2005
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| | | Re: Rarest sightings on your local patch!
nice one!
henrya |
22-06-2006, 02:59 PM
|  | Wild Member | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Bristol
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| | | Re: Rarest sightings on your local patch!
Great idea, Kris!
Along the river that runs past our house, we get loads of Scarce Chaser dragonflies, Libellula fulva at this time of the year. They're found in very few other places, so are one of my local patch's claims to fame! I saw a beautiful male Scarce Chaser just last Saturday....on a stretch of the river bank only ten minutes' walk from my house! Makes me feel a right lucky so-and-so that does!
My most memorable sighting along the same stretch of river, was watching (for well over half an hour!) a parent kingfisher feeding her two chicks! The young were sitting on one of the kingfisher feeding perches, waiting whilst mum dived again and again, bringing back fish to feed them. Magical!
Last year, a friend of mine spotted Waxwings outside the pub on our High Street - after he'd watched them for a while, he was just about to race to the phone to let me know (would have been a first for me) and then realised I was away on holiday! As far as I know, that was the first time Waxwings had been seen here for years and years....and I wasn't here!!!! What timing!   |
22-06-2006, 04:26 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Near Peterborough
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| | | Re: Rarest sightings on your local patch!
hmmm barn owl, ring ouzel, Lesser horseshoe and Barbestelle bats......... |
22-06-2006, 04:31 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: N.E. Lincolnshire
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| | | Re: Rarest sightings on your local patch!
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Originally Posted by Gill Catton hmmm barn owl, ring ouzel, Lesser horseshoe and Barbestelle bats......... | Oh Ring Ouzel! Forgot about them. Only seen a couple here, usually along the estuary/coast. |
22-06-2006, 04:56 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Laindon, Basildon, Essex.
Posts: 2,885
| | | Re: Rarest sightings on your local patch!
From my records, mine are ....
Wat Tyler Country Park
Slavonian Grebe (summer plumaged adult) - 14th April 2001
Red-backed Shrike (juvenile) - 13th October 2001
Grasshopper Warbler (heard "reeling") - 2nd May 2004
White-fronted Goose (20) - 6th February 2005
Mediterranean Gull (8 including 4 adults) - 8th July 2005
Marsh Harrier - 30th May 2006
Vange Marsh
Grey Phalarope (1st winter) - 23rd October 2004
Pectoral Sandpiper (juvenile) - 11th September 2005
I am still learning flowers, butterflies, dragonflies, etc. so who knows what else I may have seen which may have been rare!
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