maaliskuu 24, 2024

January wildflower hikes

Hiking among wildflowers
in the mountains
around Cape Town

This January was a month of fires, smoke, and burn scars. Gave me 800 Cape Peninsula sp.

https://eefalsebay.blogspot.com/2024/03/january-hikes-elsies-peak-jonkersdam-rooihoogte-steenberg.html

Julkaistu maaliskuu 24, 2024 07:23 IP. käyttäjältä dianastuder dianastuder | 10 havaintoa | 0 kommenttia | Jätä kommentti

maaliskuu 21, 2024

Cape Peninsula Lifelist

Lifelist is buggy?

821 species today.
https://www.inaturalist.org/lifelists/dianastuder?tree_mode=full_taxonomy&place_id=123155

The formal list is
https://www.inaturalist.org/check_lists/900895-Adamson---Salter-List

iNat's places shows me at 778 species
https://www.inaturalist.org/places/cape-peninsula#/places/cape-peninsula=

Disa ferruginea doesn't show up on my 'lifelist' but it is on the other 2.
778 versus 821 species - will have to stumble after both numbers.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/107826343

Julkaistu maaliskuu 21, 2024 09:05 AP. käyttäjältä dianastuder dianastuder | 0 kommenttia | Jätä kommentti

helmikuu 22, 2024

October and December 2023 wildflower hikes

Catching up.

Julkaistu helmikuu 22, 2024 05:45 IP. käyttäjältä dianastuder dianastuder | 14 havaintoa | 0 kommenttia | Jätä kommentti

tammikuu 31, 2024

800 Cape Peninsula species today

Added a robber fly. Synolcus?

Only 4 900 to go - but the top 3 include penguins ... that's easy, Boulders beach is down the road.

(750 on 24 Sept 2023) For this plant person my last 3 are associated animals.

Julkaistu tammikuu 31, 2024 12:21 IP. käyttäjältä dianastuder dianastuder | 3 havaintoa | 0 kommenttia | Jätä kommentti

tammikuu 21, 2024

September wildflower hikes from 2023

Playing catchup.

https://eefalsebay.blogspot.com/2024/01/september-hikes-slangkop-soetwater-myburghskloof-olifantsbos.html

I wonder about the geology of that ridge of boulders @raylantalbot ?
I only realised today I can use my iNat calendar in map mode to see exactly where we walked. The rocks ridge out to sea, but the landward side is a barrier of loose boulders. Don't see that anywhere else that we walk.
https://www.inaturalist.org/calendar/dianastuder/2023/9/27

Julkaistu tammikuu 21, 2024 02:20 IP. käyttäjältä dianastuder dianastuder | 13 havaintoa | 7 kommenttia | Jätä kommentti

joulukuu 24, 2023

Mountain fires and Great Southern Bioblitz

We have spent the last few days between 2 mountain fires. Spotter plane and helicopters in an aerial ballet with their water bombs.

Looking back at beach blobs for my contribution to GSB instead of smoke and ash.
https://eefalsebay.blogspot.com/2023/12/november-catch-up-great-southern-bioblitz.html

Julkaistu joulukuu 24, 2023 05:17 IP. käyttäjältä dianastuder dianastuder | 12 havaintoa | 0 kommenttia | Jätä kommentti

joulukuu 2, 2023

1 700 notifications and counting

Plus the @mentions, and what trickled in during the last week.
I have caught up.

Now I can concentrate on IDing for GSB.

Then, when that dust has settled, I will upload my own pictures.

Julkaistu joulukuu 2, 2023 07:36 AP. käyttäjältä dianastuder dianastuder | 1 havainto | 0 kommenttia | Jätä kommentti

marraskuu 26, 2023

Cape Peninsula 771 species

Yesterday's beach walk for GSB 23 has gained me a few more species for littoral. And a helpful comment for plough shell species

Julkaistu marraskuu 26, 2023 09:25 AP. käyttäjältä dianastuder dianastuder | 5 havaintoa | 0 kommenttia | Jätä kommentti

lokakuu 22, 2023

If you are looking for me?

Heading for a digital detox in November.

If you are in the Southern hemisphere (we will need identifiers please?)
Great Southern Bioblitz 24 to 27 November

I will be back to help ID for GSB November into December. Cape Peninsula is my home. Western Cape has even more to offer. Africa needs identifiers!

https://eefalsebay.blogspot.com/2023/10/false-bay-garden-october-gsb-digital-detox.html

And today - when I didn't have a camera in hand - I saw

A very slender dragonfly. Wings neatly folded back along the body. Wings veined with dark 'spoons'
Then lifted a stone and disturbed a family of young cockroaches.
And saw pseudoscorpions!! Didn't realise they were quite so tiny.

Those pictures are in my head.

Julkaistu lokakuu 22, 2023 06:41 IP. käyttäjältä dianastuder dianastuder | 2 kommenttia | Jätä kommentti

lokakuu 13, 2023

August wildflower hikes

(not going to get to the September blog post till December)

A sand toadlet in the winter pools at Rondebosch Common

Hybrid Gladiolus planted at Silvermine, in olden days for horticultural eye candy, not today's more thoughtful locally indigenous.

On Elsie's Peak a lush RED Protea lepidocarpodendron - just lacking the dark pigment says Tony R. Makes a change from the anaemic blonde variants in other species.

https://eefalsebay.blogspot.com/2023/10/august-hikes-silvermine-elsies-peak-st-james-rondebosch-common.html

Julkaistu lokakuu 13, 2023 02:58 IP. käyttäjältä dianastuder dianastuder | 3 havaintoa | 0 kommenttia | Jätä kommentti