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Other sightings
Other sightings
Here, in no particular order, are listed the other wild creatures seen on the two reserves in 2001/2.
Common Name
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Scientific Name
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Mammals
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Fox
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Vulpes vulpes
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Grey Squirrel
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Sciurus carolinensis
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Mole (their hills, at least)
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Talpa europaea
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Amphibians and aquatic invertebrates
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Common Frog (tadpoles)
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Rana temporaria
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Newt (unspecified, probably Smooth)
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Triturus (?vulgaris)
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Pond Snail
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Lymnaea stagnalis
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Pond Skater
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Gerris lacustris
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Water Boatman
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Notonecta glauca
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Great Diving Beetle
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Dytiscus marginalis
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Dragonflies and damselflies
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Emperor Dragonfly
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Anax imperator
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Common Darter
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Sympetrum striolatum
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Brown Hawker
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Aeshna grandis
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Broad Bodied Chaser
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Libellula depressa
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Beautiful Demoiselle
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Calopteryx virgo
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Large Red Damselfly
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Pyrrhosoma nymphula
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Crickets and grasshoppers
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Meadow Grasshopper
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Chorthippus parallelus
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Dark Bush Cricket
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Pholidoptera griseoaptera
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Roesel's Bush Cricket
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Metrioptera roeselii
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Short Winged Conehead
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Conocephalus dorsalis
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Moths and butterflies seen outside the transect
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Burnet Moth (probably Six-spot)
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Zygaena (?filipendulae)
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