A busy day with the refugia for the endangered Strandline Beetle placed at selected locations along Cefn Sidan. Amazingly whilst clearing broken glass off the beach...thank you public idiots... I picked up a discarded trainer, shook it and out popped one of the rarest and most threatened species of beetle in the UK, The Strandline Beetle, Eurynebria complanata at last I've seen, held and photographed this amazing little beetle. (I repositioned the trainer!)
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| Strandline Beetle |
Earlier whilst finishing off some fencing I checked some refugia including some "forgotten" ones, just the odd Slow Worm and Common Lizard, then I checked ref 4, where I have never found anything of interest but today bingo!, a GRASS SNAKE, even better it was an immature from last year, quite dark in colour about 25cm long.
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| Grass Snake, Wikipedia photo |
A few weeks ago Neil found Common Gromwell, Lithospermum officinale, recorded as local in England rare elsewhere, today we re-found the location and estimated around 100 spikes..
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| Common Gromwell |
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