Brent young recorders's Journal

Thanks to everyone who came to our wildlife recording walk around the Welsh Harp Environmental Education Centre! Despite the rainy outlook, it was great to see so many enthusiastic faces :-). Special thanks to Simon Braidman for his invaluable naturalist-y presence, & to Gillan Barnard and Suzanne Morpurgo for pulling everyone together.

Do keep track of the UK City Nature Challenge leaderboard:
UK: https://uk.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-uk-leaderboard

At the time of writing, London is only 5th! We have about 30 hours to change that :0

See you at the next event,
Elizabeth

P.S. When uploading your images iNaturalist, please try to follow these guidelines:

1) Only wildlife - no pets, livestock, crops or garden plants (unless they got there without human help)

2) Only identify records if you are fairly confident in their ID! Otherwise use a wider taxa: e.g. If I am not sure if a snail is a white-lipped snail, I could put it as "snail" or "gastropoda".

3) Only upload records that others have not already uploaded! This is a tricky one for today, I will try to comment on duplicates.

This year's City Nature Challenge will take place from Friday April 26th to Monday April 29th.

For the uninitiated, the City Nature Challenge is an annual friendly competition to create the most biological records over a 4 day period. It's an opportunity to connect with other amateur naturalists and discover the wildlife on your doorstep.

Brent Young Recorders will be running a BioBlitz to explore our borough's biodiversity and the joy of biological recording.

Also....let's help London rise the ranks in the 2024 global leaderboard!

Stay tuned for more event details....

Useful links:
City Nature Challenge: https://www.citynaturechallenge.org/
City Nature Challenge London iNaturalist project: https://uk.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-london