Thursday, 15 June 2017

Another beetle.. Thursday 15th June 2017

A cooler blustery but bright day and another Strandline Beetle survey, disappointedly only one beetle found...

Interesting sightings included another location for Dune Tiger Beetle, and good numbers of Dune Chafer, Anomala dubia, flying and mating, this beetle is classified as having a "local" distribution in the UK largely on the West coast with South Wales a good area for them.


Dune Chafer

I was also lucky enough to find three breeding pairs of Ringed Plover, and using some field craft managed to locate a nest with three eggs, field craft, [so lacking these days amongst many people who don't "get it"] is really important if you really want to discover some hidden gems. Of course you can just stumble on these things but how many people know how to react to the behaviour of the creature being observed without stressing it. As I left the area one of the adults had returned to the eggs.








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