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Dr Phil Smith: Wildlife notes August 2021
My month with nature started well when Joyce and David Jarvis showed me two flowering Broad-leaved Helleborines at Ainsdale National Nature Reserve. I hadn’t seen this orchid on the Sefton Coast since 2008. Other notable plants during the month included a small colony of Whorl-grass that I found on a freshwater seepage zone on Hightown...
Rare sighting of Elegant Tern
An Elegant Tern (Thalasseus elegans) has been spotted amongst a committee of Sandwich Terns (Sterna sandvicensis) on the Sefton Coast this month.
Artificial Intelligence discovers rare bat
A passive bat detector, left outside to automatically trigger and record bat calls as they fly over, set up in a garden in West Sussex as part of the Chichester Bat Recording Project, has recorded the social calls of the extremely rare Kuhl’s pipistrelle.