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Recorders recording?
I Often wondered whether our recorders ever sent records
of woldlife outside their speciality to other recorders.
To prove that they do Dr, Adams (recorder for plants)
sent in the following:
- Young frogs plentiful over a wide area, Oak Hill
Ponds area Nr. Napier Arms TQ(51)3991, 11.7.70,
- Vast numbers of young frogs on the hill slopes
rising south from Baldwins Hill pond, and in the
woodland nearby. TQ (51)4297
- Young rather friendly weasel present at the same
time.
Bob Cowlin (Essex badger recorder) was recently contem-
plating sending in a plant record - though I am not sure
whether he did.
The frog records have been sent to our amphibian recorder
G. Malenoir at 55 Pettits Lane, Romford, Essex. If you
have a frog in your garden pond, you may like to pass the
information on. Frogs are not too common these days.
N.B. Frogs are usually green, rather thin looking with
long back legs and rather loose smooth skin. Toads are
usually some shade of brown, decidedly plump, with
shorter back legs and a pimply or warty skin. Frogs jump
but toads much prefer to walk or crawl. Incidentally
toads, though much the more common are just as under
recorded.
Ron Allen.
P.S, Yes, there is truth in the above, I found Bee Orchids
growing on a badger spoil, but as it was in Cambridgeshire,
Bob Cowlin.