A Small Swamp Survey
After just about walking off from this swamp, rather than just leaving things at my normal "only recording species' presence," I thought I'd take a slightly more scientific approach and bisect it, recording every damselfly and dragonfly. Normally for these sorts of activities you'd record weather but I can only estimate temperature from memory, remembering it was quite cool, only around 16°C, with some light to moderate wind gusts, but most importantly it was sunny.
I walked from the far side through the middle of the 50m wide swamp. Water depth was 5cm at most. I recorded:
- 5 Slender Ringtail (Austrolestes analis)
- 4 Ancient Greenling (Hemiphlebia mirabilis)
- 3 Aurora Bluetail (Ischnura aurora)
- 1 spider
- 1 fly
I couldn't find a name for this swamp. The old (no longer working) governement mapping system might have had more names but the new one doesn't have a name for this one.
See also the Big Swamp Survey a little later in the morning.
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If you'd found one more spider you'd have a little '12 days of Christmas' :)
What time of day roughly were the observations?
ah, well spotted - but one more fly would have done it too as I would have changed the order :)
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