balders's Journal

Date: 12/06/24 (Count 1)
Sunset: 21:32
Cloud: Clear
Wind: Calm (10mph from SW)
Rainfall: None
Temperature: 13 degrees C

Survey start: 20:30
First bat emerges: 20:44
Last bat emerges: 22:04
Total count: 166 (166 Soprano Pipistrelle)

Previous years maximum counts in June:
2023: 181
2022: 51 (Maternity roost moved to another site for 1-2 months)
2021: 205
2020: tbc (video survey)
2019: 121
2018: 100
2017: 173
2016: 92 (Maternity roost moved to another site for 1-2 months)
2015: 162
2014: 136
2013: 83

Roost ID: Private

Bees & Wasps:
Chocolate Mining Bee
Early Bumble Bee
Early Mining Bee
Potter wasp sp.

Beetles:
Common Pollen Beetle
Common Red Soldier Beetle
Hazel Leaf-roller Weevil
Orchid Beetle
Thick-legged Flower Beetle

Birds:
Barn Owl
Buzzard
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Swallow

Butterflies:
Large Skipper
Meadow Brown
Ringlet

Flowering Plants:
Beaked Hawksbeard
Beech
Broad-leaved Willowherb
Cock's-Foot
Common Alder
Common Bird's-foot Trefoil
Common Cat's-Ear
Common Dogwood
Common Figwort
Common Hawthorn
Common Ivy
Common Knapweed
Common Silverweed
Common Sorrel
Common Vetch
Compact Rush
Creeping Cinquefoil
Cut-leaved Crane's-Bill
Early Purple Orchid
Elder
Elmleaf Blackberry
Enchanter's-Nightshade
Equisetum sp
European Aspen
Field Rose
Fox-and-Cubs
Germander Speedwell
Green Alkanet
Hart's-tongue Fern
Hazel
Hedge Woundwort
Herb Robert
Hogweed
Honeysuckle
Large Trefoil
Lesser Stitchwort
Lesser Trefoil
Meadow Buttercup
Meadow Crane's-Bill
Meadowsweet
Oxeye Daisy
Pencilled Crane's-Bill
Plenogemma phyllantha
Ragged-Robin
Red Campion
Red Clover
Red Valerian
Rumex sp
Sea Thrift
Sessile Oak
Smooth Meadow-Grass
Southern Marsh-Orchid
Square-stalked St John's-Wort
Sweet Vernal Grass
Ulota crispa (With Plenogemma phyllantha)
Wall Pennywort
White Clover
Yellow Rattle
Yorkshire Fog

Lichens:
Flavoparmelia sp
Parmotrema sp
Shield Lichen

Molluscs:
Monacha sp

Moths:
Brown China-Mark
Buff Ermine
Clouded Silver
Common Pug - to be confirmed
Elachista atricomella
Flame Shoulder
Large Yellow Underwing
Light Emerald
Middle-barred Minor
Mottled Beauty
Orange-spot piercer
Setaceous Hebrew Character
Silver-ground Carpet
The Flame
The Snout
Willow Beauty

Reptiles:
Common Slowworm

True flies (Diptera):
Marsh Snipe Fly
Unidentified

Dates: 25th - 30th June 2024

Weather conditions:
Warm (23 - 10 degrees), calm (max. 23mph on Thursday), overcast all week with showers on Thursday.

Amphibians:
Common Frog
Common Toad

Bats (emergence surveys):
Common Pipistrelle
Nathusius's Pipistrelle
Noctule Bat
Serotine
Soprano Pipistrelle
Next survey on 24/06 & NBMP Roost Count on 24/06
Some females are now day flying to feed their young due to poor conditions

Caddis flies:
Limnephilus marmoratus

Flowering plants:
Broad-leaved Willowherb
Cock's-Foot
Common Cat's-Ear
Common Comfrey
Common Dandelion
Common Dogwood
Common Figwort
Common Sorrel
Common Fleabane (non-flowering)
Common Silverweed (non-flowering)
Common Sorrel
Common Vetch
Compact Rush
Cow Parsley
Cuckoo flower
Crested Dog's-Tail
Elder
European Aspen
Foxglove
Germander Speedwell
Hairy Hawkbit
Hawthorn
Hemlock Water Dropwort
Herb-Robert
Hogweed
Ivy-Leaved Toadflax
Lady's Bedstraw
Lance-leaved Water-Plantain
Lesser Stitchwort
Lesser trefoil
Nipplewort
Pendulous Sedge
Pineapple-Weed
Prickly Sowthistle
Ragged-Robin
Red Campion
Scarlet Pimpernel
Selfheal
Smooth Hawk's-beard
Southern Marsh-Orchid
Wood Forget-Me-Not
Wood Speedwell
Yarrow
Yellow Rattle

Moths:
Agapeta hamana
Brussels Lace
Buff Tip
Clouded Border
Cochylichroa sp
Common Footman
Common Lutestring
Dark Arches
Garden Grass-Veneer
Green Carpet
Light Brown Apple Moth
Mottled Beauty
Notocelia rosaecolana
Phtheochroa inopiana
Riband Wave
Sharp-angled carpet
Udea olivalis
Udea prunalis
Willow Beauty
Next survey on 24/06

Reptiles:
Slowworm