Diary 21-27 May

21st May
The Vascular plant ball keeps rolling along with the additon of 5 vascular plants -

337	Hydrocotyle vulgaris	Marsh Pennywort	21/05/2014
336	Listera ovata	Common Twayblade	21/05/2014
335	Lotus	Bird's-Foot-Trefoil	21/05/2014
334	Medicago lupulina	Black Medick	21/05/2014
333	Sorbus aucuparia	Rowan	21/05/2014

22nd May
Aspen added to the list. Maybe there are other species I deliberately didn't add earlier in the year. I'll have to check. I may be missing other equally obvious species (like yesterday's Rowan). The reserve is looking green all over now,and I will have to also visit some of the remoter corners to cover odd individual plants (and fungi) that hide in secluded spits, like the Flowering Currant I found hidden away in cpt 2. I'd like to track down a Marsh Violet, and also extend the search for pond-edge plants I'm sure to be missing.

With 338 species in the bag, the new targets, with some allowance for some of the list that may be reviewed (deleted!) or are only identified to genus, the targets now look like this:

Bird	18
Vascular plant	46
Fungus	26
Lepidoptera	70
Diptera	5
Invert other	5
Total	170