First game of season on sunday for the MCC weather permitting, let's face it plenty of time to stop and stare in the gentlemans's game. So how about best records whilst at a cricket match?? Our square at Medstead has been colonised recently by Andrena cineraria, Cuckoo regularly strikes up esp. when I come into bat!! . The pitch in Pirbright in Surrey is a great place for Chamomile and marsh pennywort is also abundant in the outfield! Ripley CC has a new plant for Britain at silly mid-off (Soliva valdiviana). Arundel's ground used to have Field Cricket!! Obviously some Golf courses are plastered with amazing species(Sandwich/ Hankley etc), and the Woodcock at St.James Park, during a Newcastle match a few years ago was amazing.
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A Smutty afternoon
Great fun looking for rust and smuts, makes all the familiar plants exciting again, plenty of scope for adding plenty of tarts ticks! Bit of a nightmare with nomenclature, but if names from the likes of Ellis & Ellis aren't in mapmate, NBN is very useful with synonyms.
12000
It is amazing how hard it gets avoiding synonyms etc in databases, and it is amazing what I've forgotten to add to mapmate over the years, my 10, 000th species was nearly Scots Pine and 11,000th Song Thrush!! Purple Hairstreak was added close to 12000, but I have quite a few in hand in case of lumps, but I will have the fabulous bristle worm Dero digitatus as my official 12000th, it filter feeds and has a fist like head which opens just like a human hand to extend long fingers, quite stupendous!! I will put my full list on my website shortly once i have sorted the county sublists, and quadruple checked for howlers.
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