Mercifully, the snow is disappearing to be replaced by a spring-like, exuberant sound of twittering, happy birds, though the pond remains solid. A return to Cullaloe allowed me to follow deer tracks around the place and see that they were the ones digging up the woodland floor, and not badgers, as I previously supposed. Wonder what they were after.
A Dactylis tussock coughed up Mecinus pascuorum, a weevil fond of Ribwort Plantain. Well, there's more than enough of that. Also a Cyphon variabilis, which I found before but didn't identify, and two species - Sepedophilus nigripennis and Tachyporus obtusus - already recorded on the reserve.
2021 Beetle #56 for this year and the 170th beetle on the reserve list.
2021 Beetle #57, 171st beetle Cyphon variabilis
2021 Beetle #58, Sepedophilus nigripennis
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