Surprisingly there were a couple of wildlife highlights during the half term week in the matrix with the kids (a week of Retail parks, petting zoo, soft play, adventure golf, Harvesters, McDonalds, Waterparks and other hellscapes which the kids love). A day at Cotswold wildlife park was the highlight . I had an Otter from the car while in the drive-through for Starbucks in Thame and while driving through the Cotswolds on the way to the waterpark a Merlin flew over the car. The Merlin puts me on 499 for the world year list.
Also a few other highlights from the records validation front. We now have five 'firsts for I-Naturalist' from our 2022 West Papua trip thanks to Shelley B, the project admin who is working through the identifications (and telling me off frequently for my sloppy data dumping strategy). The records are:
https://uk.inaturalist.org/observations/137116830
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/135870584
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/135752605
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/137120542
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/338404208
In my defence simultaeneously I have been working through all my old Ghana records and cleaning up and actually learning the identifications- during the travel times and early mornings before the kids activities. After a clean up on my old Ghana records my Ghana bird life list is now 470 and got a few more identifications and corrections on the leps HERE. Been doing a lot of revising too ready for our trip next month.
Also finished reading the species accounts of the Birds of Sussex finally- quite a hefty tome to be reading in the car. Also been closing the gap between my I-GoTerra and Ebird life lists, now on 3557 for Ebird HERE.
Basically very much looking forward to getting back in the field. Not much chance today as Holly's 40th birthday.
Sad news this week is that the fox got our ducks and geese while away. So gutted about that. Will need to work on a more secure setting before we get some more.
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