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Written by John Dal on 2025-01-09 at 13:12

I've a friend, a retired hospital consultant, who's been a long-time avid birdwatcher, but since retirement has branched out into other areas of wildlife, with astonishing success. He posted an article on Facebook which raises very important points about recording your sightings. It's too long for me to share here, so I've screenshotted it. 50,000 records of 2,300 species? Gobsmacking stuff #Northumberland #Ecology #Wildlife #WildlifeConservation #WildlifeRecording

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Written by John Dal on 2025-01-09 at 13:12

"This week I hit the milestone of 50000 records on i-record of 2300 species, putting me in the top 20 recorders in the country by volume of records.

I am particularly proud that I have helped to document the wildlife in a part of the country where there are relatively few records - for example for the 10x10km square in which I live there were only records of 18 species of hoverflies whereas I have now recorded around 100 there, including 80 in my garden and a couple of new ones for the county."

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Written by John Dal on 2025-01-09 at 13:14

"Many people are helping recording in Northumberland especially Natural History Society of Northumbria (James Common) with their schemes for ladybirds and bees and special mention goes to the national Hoverfly recording scheme run by Roger Morris.

Here is a nice record from this year - large scissor bee Chelostoma florisomne doing what its Latin name suggests - sleeping in a flower, creeping buttercup."

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Written by John Dal on 2025-01-09 at 13:14

"As far as I know it is the first record for Northumberland and like many of my records it is documenting global warming in action. It is quite easy to find new species for Northumberland as many of our invertebrates are moving north, as well as observer coverage being very limited.

Recording has been a great incentive for me to learn more about other groups of organisms (I have just started with fungi in the last two autumns) and to get out more."

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Written by John Dal on 2025-01-09 at 13:14

"Its fantastically therapeutic and mindful spending a few hours looking at wildlife in great detail and helps me get in some steps.

I am now quite addicted to recording and its a very rare day when i don't go out and find something to record, even in mid-winter when ladybirds are one of my main focuses. So, off to get a fix."

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Written by Knud Jahnke on 2025-01-09 at 13:24

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Oh this is so much nicer than the bird spotting record hunting, where people seem to fly all over the world for "nature" spotting, leaving a huge trail of waste and emissions.

This is local nature action. Wonderful!

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