With the BTO confirmed as winners of the bird contest, we can now announce the scores in the TEAL Cup:
BTO 1738
RSPB 2025
Despite a slow start, it seems that the RSPB took the lead at the end of June, reaching 2000 species at the start of December. Thanks to all the local naturalists who helped us out, especially those who attended the Lodge 50th anniversary recording day. Adding in all their records takes The Lodge year list to 2101, which feels like quite an achievement. 769 of these were new to the site, and the Lodge list now stands at 4035.
I think my personal highlight is a big yellow slug, but there were lots of colourful, grotesque, rare, wacky, cute, new, or otherwise exciting things for us all.
Atlantoraphidia maculicollis new to The Lodge and to us in 2011.