Kevin Rylands
My total:
7114
Year I started recording:
2012
Last updated on:
7th January, 2024
About me:
Devon based spending most of my time at Dawlish Warren. I run www.dawlishwarren.co.uk for the Recording Group - records always welcome. Been listing since 1987 (birds) with interest in other taxa initially plants & moths starting in the early 1990's.
Age:
50
My bogey species:
Overlooking the many inverts, bryophytes, lichens I should have seen etc then I guess Mountain Ringlet takes top spot, followed by Shrill Carder Bee with Purple Milk-vetch a recent new entry. Have seen most members of the other 'popular' taxa groups but doubt I'll get Coypu back, otherwise the Filmy ferns, Brilliant Emerald and White-faced Darter stand out and I really ought to have seen Swallowtail imago rather than just the caterpillar! Most dipped were probably Smooth Stick Insect and Fen Orchid.
My most wanted:
Mole Cricket, Wild Cat, White-throated Needle-tail, Green Darner, Triangular Clubrush, Camberwell Beauty, Tadpole Shrimp, Shrill Carder Bee, False Ladybird, Phasia hemiptera and many other stunning inverts, lower plants and marine organisms I'm hardly aware of.
My grippers:
Not too many Southern Grass Emerald, Oleander HM & Patton's Tiger amongst migrant moths, Kentish Glory, Pigmy Footman & Fiery Clearwing from the resident species. Scaly & Field Cricket were good value. Black Rat isn't that straightforward anymore. Plants include of course Sand Crocus and Sea Daffodil, but you can't beat a bit of Martin's Ramping-fumitory or Rannoch Rush, then there is Lundy Cabbage (and it's Flea-beetle). Birds Golden-winged Warbler & Least Tern due to age and Sulphur-bellied Warbler due to luck. Best gripper the weevil Charagmus gressorius at the only UK site before the host plants (and therefore weevil) were removed.
Latest addition:
A shorter end of year update after reaching 7K late summer, with a BUBO inspired stocktake adding a few but removing duplicates. Slum botany additions included Cobweb House-leek, Fern-leaved Corydalis and Shoddy Ragwort, with Phyllonorycter emberizaepenella leaf mines in Southampton, Suede Bolete Boletus subtomenosus on Scilly, and from the Warren, the leafhoppers Alnetoidea alneti & Balclutha punctata, the beetles Cafius xantholoma, Othius punctulatus, Sericoderus lateralis & Taeniapion urticarium, and the flies Scathophaga litorea & Xanthandrus comtus.
Further afield Magnolia and Bay-breasted Warbler from two Pembrokeshire twitches plus Spiked Shieldbug Picromerus bidens and Skomer Vole and the Ventnor PSL safari added a host of exotica as the year ended including, a Ginkgo leafspot Bartheletia paradoxa, the ants Tapinoma ibericum & Hypoponera eduardi, and the millipede Cylindroiulus apenninorum, with Ear Shelled Slug Testacella haliotidea, the woodlouse Armadillidium nasatum and the beetle Nycteus meridionalis amongst the natives.
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