2016 in numbers

Well, I got through the year and managed to log some 1311 species, broken down as:

Birds,                 217
Mammals,            13
Amphibians,           5
Reptiles,                 3
Fish,                     12
Lep’s,                234
Beetles,                 60
Bugs,                    29
Grasshoppers,      10
Dragonflies,          26
Flies,                    64
Bee’s Wasps,       37
Mirapods,              3
Spiders,                14
Crustacea,            11
Molluscs,              29
Misc Insect’s          3
Plants,                369
Ferns,                   12
Horsetails,               3
Mosses,                28
Lichens,                27
Seaweeds,              5
Fungi,                   91
Slime Molds            1
misc’,                      3

After hitting my target of 1000 spp in early July I lost a bit of motivation. There was a number of glaring ommissions from the years observations. These include Black Redstart and Red Grouse amongst the birds, Hare, Red Squirrrel, Badger, Otter and Red Deer amongst the mammals. That said I was a good bit of fun, and a big learning curve.

I'm not setting any targets for 2017, just see what comes.