Owlthorpe Fields's Boletim

Arquivos de periódicos de julho 2020

08 de julho de 2020

Welcome

Hello everybody, thankyou for starting to upload your flora and fauna data to the Owlthorpe Fields iNaturalist project. Every month in the summer I shall download all the data and upload it to Nature Counts so it will ultimately be added by the Wildlife Trust on to the National Biodiversity Network’s database (NBN Atlas). All this data is then used by ecologists nationwide to inform national policy decisions about nature and the environment. More importantly the NBN Atlas is searched by Ecologists when carrying out surveys for developers during the planning application process.

I'll probably download the data less frequently in the autumn and winter as there will most likely be less sightings. In the mean time keep uplodaing and enjoy yourselves using it because if nothing else it is a useful tool for identifying the beasties that you do not recognise (which is a lot in my case).

I'll also try and keep everyone updated on here and nag you if there aren't many submissions. Also is something very special is spotted I'll share it with everyone.

Posted on 08 de julho de 2020, 02:23 PM by vetch10 vetch10 | 0 comentários | Deixar um comentário

17 de julho de 2020

Keep those observations coming!

Good morning everyone on this lovely summers day. I'm really pleased to see we now have 6 people contributing to the project and 495 observations that's fantastic. Today we have a meeting with the Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust with regard to OAG becoming involved with the Data for Nature project. I'm hoping that we can involve more of the community to be involved in this project and also get more of the community contributing to this iNaturalist project, from which I will upload the data to the Nature Counts database. Enjoy the lovely weather.......the hedgehogs in my back garden certainly are!

Posted on 17 de julho de 2020, 09:34 AM by vetch10 vetch10 | 0 comentários | Deixar um comentário

21 de julho de 2020

Statistics

Hello everyone. If you log in to iNaturalist on your PC or laptop you can view all the statistics and it is laid out in an easy to follow manner.

So, I thought I would give you all a bit of a statistic update. As of today (21/07/20) between all the contributors we have submitted 564 observations and have 255 identified species. 319 are currently awaiting ID - some of these will be repeat sightings but there will be some additional species amongst that large number
The most common observations were:

  1. Common spotted orchid
  2. Robin
  3. Common selfheal

Of all observations:
53% were plants
27% were insects
10% were birds
10% others (arachnids molluscs)

So, come on everyone we need more bird sightings. We know there are more out there but they are not so easy to photograph as they have this strange habit of flying off when you get near them!

Also, we haven't got any reptile sightings. We might not have any on the sites but it would be lovely to see one.

magicoak2020 has gone berserk and uploaded a whopping 243 observations. Well done magicoak2020 keep it up.

Seriously though, it doesn't matter how many or how few you put on every record counts! I can download the results in bulk at the end of each month so you can't put too many on either!

Finally please feel free to add any comments (not sure how you do it yet but I'll try and find out).

Posted on 21 de julho de 2020, 08:19 AM by vetch10 vetch10 | 0 comentários | Deixar um comentário