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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matt Prince" data-source="post: 1788550" data-attributes="member: 52862">10th April 2010Errata - flora, 4 missing from 1st Jan added onto listAnother failed attempt for Sand Crocus at Dawlish Warren, so we headed off for Berry Head instead where Nicola managed to locate some special flowers of the site, including a single spotted rock rose and an emerging early purple orchid. With a stunning flat calm sea, grey seals could be seen watching kayakers down below. In a field nearby a single northern wheatear was the only obvious migrant. We returned to riversmeet near bowling green for the high tide roost and located the spotted redshank, it was initially distant and backlit but courteously waded a bit closer. Finally we popped out to the lanes above Exminster, where we picked up a few common hedgerow plants.The mini-beasts are getting to be a problem! So far the technique is to photo them and ask questions later..Sites: Dawlish Warren, Berry Head, Bowling Green, Exminster areaNew Species : Speckled Wood, Comma, Wheatear, Spotted Redshank, Grey Seal, White Rock Rose, Hairy Violet, Portland Spurge, Common Groundsel, Greater Stitchwort, Shining Cranesbill, Early Purple Orchid, bombus lapidarius (bumble bee), lob worm, turkeytail, dasypoda altercator (bee), syrphus ribesii (hover fly), pardosa nigriceps (wolf spider), alopecosa pulverulenta (wolf spider), cryptops hortensis (centipede), arion hortensis (garden slug), common shiny woodlice, polymerius fasciatus (bug), sepsis fulgens (fly)Totals: Birds 150; Butters 2; Flora 96; Funghi 13; Grasshoppers 1; Mammals 10; Marine 45; Misc 14; Moss&Lichens 6; Moths 2; Spiders 5; Beetles 5Grand Total 350Nicolas grips RL Partridge, Holly Blue</blockquote>

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