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Recording Doncaster wildlife since 1880

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  • Insects
    • Order – Coleoptera – Beetles
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    • Order – Amphibians
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    • Plants – Dicotyledons
    • Plants – Monocotyledons
    • Plants – Trees
    • Plants – Grasses, Sedges, & Rushes
    • Plants – Gymnosperms
    • Bryophytes (Mosses & Liverworts)
    • Pteridophytes (Ferns, Clubmosses, Horsetails)
  • Fungi
  • Galls
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    • Visiting Invertebrates
      • Ragwort
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      • Ivy
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Order – Birds

Birds

Wildfowl (Swans, Geese, Ducks)
Waterbirds (Cormorants, Grebes)
Seabirds (Gannets, Fulmar, Shearwater, Petrels)
Gulls & Terns
Auks ( Puffins, Guillemots, Razorbill)
Waders (Oystercatcher, Avocet, Plovers, Snipe & Woodcock, Sandpipers, ‘Shanks’, Godwits, Curlew.)
Large waterside birds (Bittern, Heron, Egrets, Spoonbill, Crane)
Rails & Crakes
Game Birds (Quail, Pheasants, Partridges, Grouse)
Pigeons and Doves
Birds of Prey (Eagles, Buzzards, Osprey, Harriers, Hawks, Falcons)
Owls & Nightjars
Near-passerines (Kingfisher, Cuckoo, Woodpeckers)
Aerial feeders (Swifts, Swallow, Martins)
Passerines (Song-birds)
   Larks, Pipits and Wagtails
   Starling, Waxwing, Dipper
   Dunnock, Wren
   Thrushes and Chats
   Goldcrest, Warblers
   Flycatchers
   Tits, Nuthatches & Creepers
   Crows, Jay
   Finches, Buntings, Sparrows

Recent Posts

  • Next Meeting – Sunday 3 December 2023 to Slaynes Lane (Birding) 28 November 2023
  • Next Meeting Tuesday 21st November 2023, Indoor meeting ‘Looking for Planthoppers’. 14 November 2023
  • Meeting Cancelled – Saturday 18 November 2023, Mosses 14 November 2023
  • Next Meeting – Wednesday 8th November 2023, a ramble around Hatfield Moor 6 November 2023
  • Next Meeting – Thursday 2nd November at 1.30 at Parklands Club 30 October 2023

Slideshow

No. 9 Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis)
Urophora stylata (mite gall) on Spear Thistle
Annual Meadow-grass (Poa annua), Dinnington
Chrysolina staphylaea - Brown Willow Beetle, Anston Stones Wood
Anthocharis cardamines- Orange-tip (male), Woodside Nurseries, Austerfield.
Diaphora mendica - Muslin Moth, Woodside Nurseries, Austerfield.
Sweet Violet (Viola odorata var dumetorum), Lindrick Common.
Mycena galopus - Milking Bonnet, Treswell Wood, Notts.
Rutpela maculata, Thorne Moor
Tholera cespitis - Hedge Rustic, Austerfield.

Gallery

no-title-scaled Drone fly,Eristalis tenax on Ivy by Nora Boyle. Thorne Rd,18.11.23 Common flesh Fly,Sarcophaga carnaria, 3.9.23, Thorne Rd, SE605055 on Ivy by Nora Boyle Tachinid fly,Tacihna fera, 3.9.23, Thorne Rd SE605055,on Ivy by Nora Boyle

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