Lack of admin

Had a few issues with this blog when trying to update it but it looks like I've found a work around to stop it hanging.
Spring is in full swing now so the Admin and paper (or on-line) work has taken a bit of a back seat at the moment. I'll try and catch up but it will have to wait until I return from Greece. I forgot how much time doing this listing takes.

In the meantime here is a list of the new species recorded this year in the monad ie NZ2549, together with a few pictures I've got to hand. The first on this list, Emperor moth, was my first on the fell for three years. But another moth enthusiast brought a female over and it attracted several males. I couldn't get there that day but I looked around myself the following day and saw several flying around, low over the heather. Maybe that sexy female hads woken all the lazy boys up!

The list consists of  a few moths (its uusally quiet for them now until the end of the month) and other inverebtrates, a few mammals and lots of flowers now that they are beginning to show themselves and I haven't got to id them vegetatively. I made a bit of an effort on the latter so that when I get back I can concentrate on some of the other stuff. And I'll update the sidebar lists too.
Heres a few random pictures and the list in no particular order.

Purple Thorn

Ground-Ivy

Not insect eggs but Puccinia sessilis Wild Garlic Rust

Tree Sparrows

415. Saturnia pavonia (Emperor Moth)
416. Puccinia violae (Violet Rust)
417. Locustella naevia (Grasshopper Warbler)
418. Valerianella locusta (Common Cornsalad)
419. Agrostis stolonifera (Creeping Bent)
420. Geranium dissectum (Cut-leaved Crane's-bill)
421. Bibio marci (St. Mark's Fly)
422. Agrostis capillaris (Common Bent)
423. Arrhenatherum elatius (False Oat-grass)
424. Artemisia vulgaris (Mugwort)
425. Asplenium scolopendrium (Hart's-tongue)
426. Barbarea vulgaris (Common Winter-cress)
427. Brassica napus subsp. oleifera (Oil-seed Rape)
428. Callitriche stagnalis (Common Water-starwort)
429. Cruciata laevipes (Crosswort)
430. Dactylorhiza fuchsii  (Common Spotted Orchid)
431. Dactylorhiza purpurella (Northern Marsh Orchid)
432. Equisetum arvense (Field Horsetail)
433. Erica cinerea (Bell Heather)
434. Eriophorum angustifolium (Common Cottongrass)
435. Eriophorum vaginatum (Hare's-tail Cottongrass)
436. Eupatorium cannabinum (Hemp-agrimony)
437. Euphorbia helioscopia (Sun Spurge)
438. Fallopia baldschuanica (Russian-vine)
439. Festuca ovina (Sheeps Fescue)
440. Festuca rubra (Red Fescue)
441. Cynosurus cristatus (Crested Dog's-tail)
442. Geranium pratense (Meadow Cranesbill)
443. Hesperis matronalis (Dame's Violet)
444. Medicago lupulina (Black Medick)
445. Phleum pratense (Timothy)
446. Primula veris  (Cowslip)
447. Sonchus oleraceus (Smooth Sow-thistle)
448. Trifolium pratense (Red Clover)
449. Veronica beccabunga (Brooklime)
450. Veronica montana (Wood Speedwell)
451. Rumex conglomeratus (Wood Dock)
452. Populus alba (White Poplar)
453. Glechoma hederacea (Ground-ivy) 
454. Forficula auricularia (Common Earwig) 
455. Meligethes aeneus (Common Pollen Beetle) 
456. Allium ursinum (Ramsons)
457. Puccinia sessilis (Wild Garlic Rust)
458. Limacus flavus (Yellow Slug)
459. Bufo bufo    (Common Toad)
460. Vulpes vulpes (Red Fox)
461. Mustela nivalis (Weasel)
462. Rattus norvegicus (Brown Rat)
463. Myodes glareolus (Bank Vole)