Beetles, birds update

A second session of beetling briefly in the rain at Cullaloe has added about ten species (two or three to still do), including two new species for Cullaloe. That's not a bad result. Both are species I know from other sites. Sadly my phone seems to lose colour so that Agonum muelleri's lovely bronze and green barely show at all in the photo, despite being clear even to the naked eye.

Dryops ernesti

Agonum muelleri

Despite the consistently rainy/frosty weather that's a start that would probably get me where I want to be. Beetles on the list so far:

Count	Family	Species		Location
1	Carabidae	Agonum muelleri		Cullaloe LNR
2	Carabidae	Amara plebeja		Cullaloe LNR
3	Carabidae	Bembidion guttula		Dalgety Bay
4	Carabidae	Pterostichus nigrita		Cullaloe LNR
5	Carabidae	Pterostichus strenuus		Dalgety Bay
6	Carabidae	Trichocellus placidus		Dalgety Bay
7	Chrysomelidae	Phyllotreta nigripes		Cullaloe LNR
8	Dryopidae	Dryops ernesti		Cullaloe LNR
9	Erotylidae	Triplax aenea		Cullaloe LNR
10	Silphidae	Silpha atrata		Dalgety Bay
11	Staphylinidae	Anotylus rugosus		Dalgety Bay
12	Staphylinidae	Lathrobium brunnipes		Cullaloe LNR
13	Staphylinidae	Quedius fuliginosus		Cullaloe LNR
14	Staphylinidae	Sepedophilus nigripennis		Cullaloe LNR
15	Staphylinidae	Stenus juno		Cullaloe LNR
16	Staphylinidae	Tachyporus dispar		Cullaloe LNR
17	Staphylinidae	Tachyporus hypnorum		Cullaloe LNR

Also a walk around Dalgety Bay on the 2nd returned a handsome 51 species. Usually on a walk I'd count over 40 as a good result. Nice to see some partridges, with or without a pear tree, and a couple of Bar-tailed Godwits.

5th January

Dalgety Bay birds 2023: 58 spp.

Inverkeithing birds 2023: 31 spp.