Sunday Synopsis

Another beautiful day. A little hot for this time of the year, but with a gentle cool breeze.

But the Strandveld and Swartland are dry and desolate. Without any rains, summer has not really progressed to Autumn

And yet Cape Town is doing very well for observations and species. Well done to all our contributors for a fantastic effort.
One more day to go. I hope that you have a fun event planned for tomorrow. I would recommend the high mountains, as the flats look bleak. We have hardly any data from Constantiaberg, The Back Table, Llundudno Corner to the Back Table, Helderberg West Dome, and the high east (Landdroskop and Kogelberg). I know several groups who will be tackling the eastern end, so it seems that everyone has been doing a great job. Well done all.
We dont have enough species identified to evaluate reserve lists yet, but most nature reserves have been visited.

It looks like we may have several BINGOs, but no one has validly called their BINGOs yet.
Have you BINGOd? https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/49177-bingo
Last chance tomorrow to complete your columns and rows.

Our Tally so far:

Birds : 174 species
Mammals: 48 species
Herps: 40 species
Fish: 74 species (a nice jump today)

Molluscs: 112 species (almost doubled both days)
Arachnids: 49 species
Insects: 269 species

Plants:
Mosses: 10 species (doubled)
Ferns: 35 species
Monocots: 339 species
Dicots: 1,399 species

Fungi: 57 species

Our targets were:
60,000 observations - we have 38,000 at midnight
5000 species - we have 2800 species (on our project page - 2498 on the summary bar)
and 3000 observers - we have 1,033 observers.

Have a great last day.

Posted on May 2, 2021 10:55 PM by tonyrebelo