Paul Clack
My total:
3263
Year I started recording:
1988
Last updated on:
2nd January, 2024
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:
47
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 2023 update. 144 new sp. this year for me. Best bits were migratory locust (county 1st in our garden), 2x weekends at Portland that delivered a bunch of moths and other stuff, and various rockpool fair including a few wish list species.
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