Paul Clack
My total:
3115
Year I started recording:
1988
Last updated on:
24th June, 2023
About me:
Started out as a birder at 12 and branched out into the usual suspects, butterflies, mammals, dragonflies etc at uni. Finished PhD, went freelance as ecologist and eventually ended up at Herts and Middx WT with Steve Marshall. Now living in Wiltshire and working in Bristol, mostly stuck in offices...
Age:
46
My bogey species:
Water shrew keeps eluding me, seen dead ones and glimpses of possibles. Still need pygmy shrew and harvest mouse, Nathusius' pip & Leisler's. Tawny pipit, which I refuse to twitch having seen loads abroad. Aquatic and western Bonelli's are the other most regular birds. Green-flowered helleborine.
My most wanted:
Chequered skipper last regular breeding butterfly; death's-head hawk-moth; polecat other than roadkill; sickle-bearing bush-cricket, porbeagle shark and tub gurnard.
My grippers:
Nothing much other folk haven't seen but a few birds that show vintage include blue-winged warbler, Steller's eider, Siberian thrush and greater sand plover. Bearded seal was fun. Spatulate fleawort, pygmy and dwarf rushes, twin-headed clover. Many folk got haddock or brill on their PSLs?
Latest addition:
End of 2022 update. 125 new sp. this year for me. Highlights included polecat at last, Pacific diver, a great Kent weekend with dainty damselfly, late spider and long-lipped tongue orchids, black-veined moth, clove scented and oxtongue broomrapes etc, various rockpool goodness in Northumberland including sea lemon, fifteen spined stickleback and bloody Henry starfish, willow emerald in Oxford and garden moths including bordered and scarce bordered straws.
History
- Blog
- View recent blog entries
- Member for
- 8 years 4 weeks