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Lothian Wildlife Information Centre Excursions 2008
The seven excursions organised by LWIC in 2008 focussed particularly on
under-recorded sites. In some cases recording had been requested (e.g.
by the Scottish Wildlife Trust and Scottish Natural Heritage), in others,
the habitats present on the site have previously received little attention
from recorders (e.g. Eaglescairnie Farm).
Thanks go to the following recorders for taking part:
Keith Bland, David Chamberlain, Hugh Coventry, Lesley Fairweather,
Susan Falconer, Alistair Graham, Liz Kungu, Peter Leach, Craig Macadam,
Stuart MacPherson, Stuart Maxwell, Douglas McKean, Jackie Muscott,
Betty Smith, Denis Smith, Eunice Smith, Alastair Sommerville, Jane Squirrell,
Adrian Sumner and Barbara Sumner.
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Brock Wood - 19th April
- Number of species records
- 663
- Groups recorded
- Vascular plants, mosses & liverworts, mammals, birds, moths, flies,
molluscs, amphibians and woodlice.
- Highlights
- Woodland plants including moschatel and sanicle. An uncommon snail,
Ashfordia granulata that is almost endemic to Britain.
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Bogburn Flood Lagoons - 18th May
- Number of species records
- 510
- Groups recorded
- Vascular plants, lichens, beetles, butterflies, moths, flies,
true bugs, sawflies, stoneflies, alderflies and mites.
- Highlights
- The locally rare Grey Club-rush Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani.
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Harperrig Reservoir and Torphin Quarry - 21st June
- Number of species records
- 265
- Groups recorded
- Vascular plants, birds, mammals, amphibians, dragonflies, bees, moths and molluscs.
- Highlights
- An unusual assemblage of aquatic snails and newts at Torphin Quarry.
A Sand Martin colony was discovered at Harperrig Reservoir as well as
the locally rare Alternate Water-milfoil Myriophyllum alterniflorum.
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Ravelston Woods - 2nd July
- Number of species records
- 249
- Groups recorded
- Vascular plants, fungi, mosses & liverworts, mammals, birds,
moths, beetles, flies, molluscs, mites and woodlice.
- Highlights
- A mite that has been very rarely recorded in Scotland, Epitrimerus trilobus.
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Linlithgow Loch - 20th July
- Number of species records
- 187
- Groups recorded
- Vascular plants, mosses & liverworts, mammals, birds, bees,
beetles, flies, true bugs, molluscs and woodlice.
- Highlights
- There are old records for the aquatic snail Valvata piscinalis
from the loch. The continued survival of the species at the site was confirmed.
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Roslin Glen - 16th August
- Number of species records
- 417
- Groups recorded
- Vascular plants, mosses & liverworts, mammals, birds, bees,
butterflies, moths, flies, ichneumon flies, sawflies, molluscs,
millipedes, mites and woodlice.
- Highlights
- The locally scarce Comma Polygonia c-album and a barkfly
that has only been recorded once before in the Lothians,
Caecilius fuscopterus.
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Eaglescairnie Farm - 21st September
- Number of species records
- 590
- Groups recorded
- Vascular plants, fungi, birds, bees, butterflies, flies,
dragonflies, molluscs and spiders.
- Highlights
- The locally rare Hoary Cinquefoil Potentilla argentea
and the local Hedgehog Fungus Hydnum repandum.
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