The Lyons Share

The little moths from Mill Hill have been confirmed by Tony Davis as the rare Pancalia schwarzella, the first records in Sussex since 1931, a great find. Seriously, there is no April fooling here. Although I did nearly scupper myself when I thought someone else was fooling me back in 2005. I was living in Stafford and I got a text saying there was a Belted Kingfisher within four miles of my house at Milford near Stafford. I was moving house so I couldn't check on the Internet. I waited four hours before I finally got on line and on the off chance that he wasn't joking, I checked BirdGuides. It was of course, true and fortunatly I did manage to see the bird. It was nearly the biggest dip of all time. 

Anyway, here is the break down of my pan-species list. It currently stands at 3190, up 118 from 3072 at the end of January, edging ever closer to 3200. I have not updated like this for two months so some lists have gone up quite a bit in that time (I have added 50 beetles!).