I am an amateur naturalist. I am particularly interested in vascular plants, lichens, bryophytes and invertebrates; but I try, to the best of my ability, to undertake pan-species listing in my patch. But my lichen and bird patch is Sussex (the vice counties of East and West Sussex for biological recording purposes in the UK), That is way too big to do systematic pan-species listing and recording. I only travel by public transport to reduce my carbon footprint. I am a retired teacher (special education). So I have restricted my pan-species listing/recording to two square kilometres: the monad TQ2611 (Devil's Dyke) and Tide Mills (the lower halves of TQ4600 &TQ4700)
In a world of massive loss of biodiversity, it is really important to to widen the knowledge of the general public of what species exist in their local area, so that these species can be conserved; to conserve something, that thing has to have a name, and to record over time so that patterns of abundance and diversity and the effect of climate change and biodiversity loss can be seen.
I have been visiting the Tide Mills regularly over the last four years (on the 12 bus bus) but I have not formally recorded what I have seen. From now on I will formally record in iRecord the species I see.
TQ4500 encompasses vegetated shingle beach, saltmarsh, a tidal creek, drainage ditches and a wet meadow
Ordnance Survey Map
Ordnance Survey (2006) Newhaven | OS Maps (Accessed: 31/08/26) © Crown Copyright 2016 Ordnance Survey
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