Mid-January 2022
I continued to add a number of common bird species on my walks to work (still too dark on the way home to add anything then). Singing Song Thrush plus Goldcrest, Greenfinch, Coal Tit and Grey Wagtail were some of the local highlights, capped with a flock of about 100 Pink-footed Geese that flew over Waterloo Park on 12th Jan.
Elsewhere I noticed some tiny springtails on the surface of some garden pond water, which under a microscope turned out to be an apparently common species but one I'd never noticed/identified before, Sminthurides aquaticus. You can see some excellent pictures of them on the blog here: https://www.chaosofdelight.org/blog/springtail-of-the-month-sminthurides-aquaticus/31/8/2020
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