Square kilometre challenge 2

This project fell by the wayside for a few weeks, especially as I wasn't present in the square kilometre during February. However, lots of lichens from late January, and some birds, insects, and trees identified in March have added to the total. I expect as trees, shrubs, and bulbs come into flower and leaf, they will be easier to identify, and insects are starting to become more common. Spring migrant birds have yet to arrive.

Above: various jelly fungi, very common in the local woods in January. Below: some of the wonderful varied lichens - there seems to be an impressive selection in the survey area.

January 15th-March 15th: 45
Animals: 12
Vertebrates: 7
Birds: 6
Buteo buteo common buzzard
Certhia familiaris treecreeper
Larus fuscus lesser black-backed gull

Pyrrhula pyrrhula bullfinch
Regulus regulus goldcrest
Turdus philomelos song thrush
Amphibians: 1
Rana temporaria common frog

Invertebrates: 5
Insects: 4
Agonopterix sp.***
Alucita hexadactyla twenty-plume moth
Bombus pratorum Early bumblebee
Coccinella septempunctata 7-spot ladybird
Springtails (Collembola): 1
Folsomia candida

Plants: 14
Herbaceous plants: 9
Buddleia davidii butterfly bush**
Buxus sempervirens
Digitalis purpurea foxglove
Galanthus nivalis snowdrop*
Galium aparine cleavers
Lamiastrum galeobdolon ssp. argentatum variegated yellow archangel
Meconopsis cambrica Welsh poppy
Ranunculus ficaria lesser celandine
Tussilago farfara coltsfoot
Trees: 5
Pinus sylvestris Scots pine
Picea abies Norway spruce

Acer pseudoplatanus sycamore
Ilex aquifolia holly
Taxus baccata yew

Lichens and fungi: 19
Arthonia radiata
Dacyrmyces stillatus common jellyspot
Evernia prunastri
Exidia nigricans witches' butter
Exidia thuretiana white brain
Hypogymnia tubulosa
Lecanora chlarotera
Melanelixia glabratula
Nectria cinnabarina coral spot
Peltigera membranacea
Physcia tenella
Pleurotus ostreatus oyster mushroom
Porpidia soredizodes
Ramalina fastigiata
Stereum hirsutum hairy curtain crust
Tremella mesenterica yellow brain
Usnia subfloridana
Xanthoria parietina common orange lichen
Xylaria hypoxylon stag's horn fungus

Year to date total: 93
*probably not strictly native, but long established.
**not native, but widespread and well established.
***probably Agonopterix heracliana but impossible to be certain