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Strandline Beetle Survey Wednesday 6th September 2017

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Back in the swing.... After fixing a stile, and crecoting (the new safer version of creosote) the door to the shelter Veronica and I had lunch on the beach, after what seemed a never ending drive though soft sand! I wanted to start the September round of Strandline Beetle surveys so we walked the most productive stretch of beach between CE51 and the end of grazing field 2. We found five beetles along this stretch which I was pleased about as in August I hadn't recorded any along the beach in the survey area, (Barry Stewart during the survey for Natural Resources Wales in 2016 felt that they disappear at that time of year). The Strandline Beetle All five beetles we found were under plastic of one sort or another, despite there being some "ideal looking" pieces of driftwood lying on the beach. One beetle was found under a plastic barrel at the foot of a near vertical dune cliff, not apparently having read the literature which indicates they don't l

I'm back, Tuesday 5th September 2017

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I'm back from a well earned break on the Spanish island of Majorca, it was unashamedly a "beach and chilling" holiday, although I did see a few nice birds, including, Eleonoras Falcon, Peregrine Falcon (with one of the hotels feral pigeons and I don't think they were off to the beach!!!) Audouins Gull, Cattle Egrets and Sardinian Warbler. I also saw what is apparently the most expensive sailing yacht in the world built at a cost of- 300 million euros! Made of steel, 468ft long with the masts almost 300ft high!