Dalgety Bay - Dead Wood

Yesterday was a busy day but I managed a quick tour of the woods behind my house before a planned shopping trip. Big "return on investment" there with some expected but not yet sen species ticked and a couple of tree species that I haven't noticed anywhere else. These woods contain some pretty old trees and my understanding is that there used to be a lot more before our houses were built there.

A few seaside additions too, including a new seaweed for me which was identified during a one day conference on recording that I attended on Saturday.

Hoping to get to 400 before I go up north for a few days. You can see from the below chart how fast this year has been so far. CUL is my local SWT reserve and the initial date of 2014 is maintained because of the way the table's set up.

Pics:

Lepidochitona cinerea

Sand Masons

Hysterium angustatum

Desmarestia aculeata

Numbers:

374		alga	Choreocolax polysiphoniae	An alga
375		alga	Ulva lactuca	Sea Lettuce
376		annelid	Lanice conchilega	Sand Mason
377		lep-moth	Conistra vaccinii	Chestnut
378		lep-moth	Phigalia pilosaria	Pale Brindled Beauty
379		mollusc	Lepidochitona cinerea	A Chiton
380	*	alga	Desmarestia aculeata	A seaweed
381		coleoptera	Notiophilus biguttatus	A ground beetle
382		flowering plant	Sedum album	White Stonecrop
383		flowering plant	Teucrium scorodonia	Wood Sage
384		bird	Pyrrhula pyrrhula	Bullfinch
385		collembola	Tomocerus minor	A springtail
386		flowering plant	Aesculus hippocastanum	Horse-chestnut
387		flowering plant	Corylus avellana	Hazel
388	*	fungus	Costantinella terrestris	A hyphomycete
389		fungus	Exidiopsis calcea	A fungus
390		fungus	Geastrum triplex	Collared Earthstar
391		fungus	Hysterium angustatum	A fungus
392		fungus	Rosellinia aquila	A fungus
393		fungus	Sistotrema oblongisporum	A fungus