Kevin Rylands
My total:
7000
Year I started recording:
2012
Last updated on:
21st August, 2023
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:
Red-footed Booby for the milestone! Other recent additions largely from the Sandwich PSL meet including Southern Emerald Damselfly, Carthusian Snail, Fig-leaf Skeletoniser, Bittercress Diamondback, Heath, Lesser Streaked & Scarce Tortoise Shieldbugs, Ant-nest Ladybird, a jewel beetle Aphanisticus pusillus, Pale Tortoise Beetle, Blue Mint Leaf Beetle, the weevils Ethelcus verrucatus & Hypera ononidis, Long-horned General, the spiders Calositticus inexpectus, Phlegra fasciata & Steatoda triangularis.
Elsewhere from the Warren, Hedgehog Slug, Small Shaggy Bee, Skullcap Sawfly Athalia scutellariae, a ground beetle Philorhizus melanocephalus, Angle-spotted Ladybird, Hairy Rove Beetle, Pouting Woodlouse-fly & Guiry's Wrack; other Devon sites; Blackening Chanterelle, Rigid Beard-moss, Indian Bean & Holly Aphid, a spider wasp Dipogon variegatus, Small Ranunculus & Lunar Hornet Moth; and from the Island, undescribed rust on Mind-your-own-business, the mirid, Pilophorus perplexus, Acer Sober, Buff Mompha, Hairy Crab, Chameleon Prawn & Creephorn.
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