Glad you made it to Imber! Stunning location and amazing grassland for miles around on each side

Garden Parsley Petroselinum crispum gone to seed?

A trip to Ben Lawers b needed then!

We saw lots of Carex aquatilis when we went ‘off piste’ to get to serpentine outcrops and didn’t Matt Harding find lots of Carex rariflora on slopes just beyond outcrops last year? You can see I like sedges can’t you! Also Cerastium fontanum subsp. scoticum

You could always try for the Hobcarton Crag population. Less of a walk/climb than Meikle Kilrannoch

Which year for Desert Sessions? My fave is the one with PJ Harvey way back when

A lovely Chimney Sweeper moth - it feeds on pignut

Did you see the Eleocharis mammillata? Quite a lot of it in the quarry as I recall. Are you in the Dales tomorrow/this week? If so, let me know as I’ll be in the area doing some monitoring work

I agree. Many are taxonomically biased and not well researched but I think the bigger problem is defining what you want to measure hence my comments re complete listing which also allows unanticipated changes to be monitored but I know we can’t record everything (before I’m accused of absolutism)!

Personally I’m not a fan of sub-sampling. Better to record everything and measure change from there. Farmland birds for example are just a sub-sampled set of species from complete lists recorded during BBS. But we rarely have the time (and money) to record everything even for well-recorded taxa!