Alastair Forsyth
My total:
353
Year I started recording:
1965
Last updated on:
22nd September, 2022
About me:
Birds, moths, beetles, mammals, slugs, most beasts really. Rubbish botanist. https://literateherringthisway.blogspot.com/
Age:
67
My bogey species:
Aquatic Warbler, standing next to folk watching one. Franklin's Gull. A live Pine Marten woud be good.
My most wanted:
An albatross, but it has to go by when I'm seawatching. Bulwer's Petrel, likewise.
My grippers:
Nutcracker, Great Bustard (x6 - no not plastic ones), Chrysolina latecincta (intermedia), Otiorhynchus arcticus, Carabus nitens, Pelophila borealis, Orca, Humpback Whale, Fin Whale (Ireland), Coypu, Cladophora aegagropila (alga), Lady's Slipper.
Latest addition:
Ancylosis oblitella (1st Scottish record I think, Sept 2022); Matilella fusca (new for Orkney, Sept 2022).
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