tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16430239065908537922024-03-13T03:15:38.178+00:00Ash Brownies: The Brown Hairstreak BlogGillian Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367751019734111302noreply@blogger.comBlogger164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-38272347725939110362018-04-18T17:47:00.000+01:002018-04-18T17:47:58.893+01:00Eggs now hatchingThe first eggs are now hatching. These are two out of a batch of 90 eggs which were rescued following Blackthorn cutting at Ifield in Crawley, Sussex. They were collected in January and returned to the wild in March. None of the others checked today have hatched.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13898968089524651361noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-32415339739206111532017-03-03T09:35:00.001+00:002017-03-03T09:35:48.657+00:00Worcs Brown Hairstreak Update<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Well……what an eventful and exciting last few
weeks it’s been in the world of the West Midlands Brown Hairstreak!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> The last six months had continued the
fairly quiet trend that we had been experiencing since Summer 2015 with adult
sightings in Grafton Wood, in 2016, well down on that previous summer. Once
this winter’s egg searches then got underway in November, the similar theme
continued. Counts at most sites that are monitored every year, were either down
or about the same as the previous winter (which was, in itself, a disappointing
one). Some sites bucked the trend though such as the National Grid site at
Feckenham, which had the best count we’ve ever recorded there, responding to
the great management work done by the Worcs Wildlife Trust and National Grid.
Plus a long stretch of footpath hedgerow near Bishampton that we’re now using
for the new BC Head Office monitoring methodology and where eggs were only
found for the first time, a few years ago. Large numbers of eggs were found
here this winter, easily surpassing last years’ total and seemingly indicating
the build-up of a colony right at the southern edge of the known distribution
of the butterfly in Worcs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Events really started to take off though just
before Christmas, with the discovery of what were the most <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">southerly</b> eggs ever found for this current-day Worcs population.
These eggs were actually in an already recorded 1Km grid square but later that
same day, after moving on to a nearby (previously unrecorded) square and
searching there, Jenny Tonry discovered an egg on the northern outskirts of the
village of Pinvin, in square SO9549.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A few weeks later, one of our regular
Thursday searches had to be cancelled because of a bad weather forecast.
Undeterred, two of us then went out searching (independently) the following
day, in better weather, with the result that three more previously unrecorded
squares were ticked off the list. These three squares were the ones flanking
Tibberton village (SO9056/57/58) and were significant in that they’ve all been
searched many times before in previous winters, to no avail. These squares were
also out near the extreme western edge of the butterfly’s Worcs distribution. So
again, these egg records provide compelling evidence of distribution expansion
of the butterfly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It was becoming increasingly clear, from all
these ‘new square records’, that the Brown Hairstreak had experienced a flight
season characterized by ‘dispersal’ and it was therefore going to be worth
putting in a bit of extra effort to try and find other new square territories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Cue a couple of weeks ago and the discovery
of another new square record in yet another location that had been unsuccessfully
searched in many previous winters. This one being on Pumphouse Lane, close to
Redditch, in SP0166, and these discoveries marked the most <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">northerly</b> eggs so far found. This was then followed, just a week
ago, by the discovery of an egg over the border in Warks, east of Astwood Bank plus
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>egg records in another new ‘Redditch’ square:
SP0364 at Hunt End.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We had therefore, in just a single winter, recorded
the most northerly and southerly eggs in the distribution, whilst also finding them
out very close to both the western and eastern extremes!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">With all this ‘edge of distribution’
exploration going on it might seem like there wouldn’t have been much time left
to devote to our core area searches at Grafton Wood however, sandwiched in
between all these new range discoveries, have been some incredible recent finds
within the wood itself. Following a rather abortive attempt at searching some
excellent areas of Blackthorn coppice and re-growth, in a much hampered heavy
hoar frost search a few weeks previously, we decided to return to carry out a more
systematic and painstaking search of some key areas within the wood. The result
of these searches was that the in-wood total number of eggs found this winter
at Grafton was a staggering 555. One particularly favourable ride corner
revealing 186 eggs!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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been carried out over the last three winters, and are done to provide a
monitoring and planning tool to aid the huge amount of excellent management
work that has taken place within Grafton over the last few years to open up the
wood and cut down old blackthorn thickets. The egg totals have proved beyond
all doubt, how fantastically well the butterfly has responded to all this
management work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hairstreak season, right up-to-date although, at the time of writing, there’s
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12444285470590822471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-43078737475345650492016-09-06T23:05:00.000+01:002016-09-06T23:05:15.807+01:00Egg laying at Grafton - maybe!!There seem to be far fewer sightings this year, than normal, at this early stage. I'm meeting a lot of people, who tell me that they have seen nothing and, on my visits to Gratin Wood, I've noticed far fewer individuals in flight, than normal. But they are around and, today was my best day of the flight season, so far. I saw four individuals: one flying over the old pond into oaks behind; one flying into the wood from the orchard and two females low down on the narrow path to the west of the old pond.<br />
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I think, but I'm not sure, that both of the females were ovipositing. They were crawling along young blackthorn shoots, fluttering low down and basking briefly, but I did not actually see egg-laying or find any eggs.<br />
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<br />Richard Smythhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08322493151318587770noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-69080156094731648792016-08-21T21:59:00.000+01:002016-08-21T21:59:22.052+01:00Egg laying at Grafton Wood (thanks to clearance work)I was very impressed with the results of the shrub clearance near the old pond area. I saw 7 Brown Hairstreaks, today, all either in the old pond area or along the path to the west of the pond. Two of the females were definitely egg laying, however, in the area cleared either last year or the year before, opposite the pond. All the low flying, egg laying females were in this cleared area.<br />
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I think I have been missing a lot of sightings by looking around the area of blackthorn next to the pond, when most of the action is opposite the pond in the cleared area on younger blackthorn plants. The female below disappeared low in the blackthorn and I found two eggs, afterwards.<br />
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Most of my sightings were between 12.30 and 14.00pm. It was very windy, but they were active during the short spells of sunshine. I photographed four different females on the day. All in all, a very good day. I did notice that there was a lot of trampling in the cleared area. There are a couple of small "paths" through this area so please try to avoid trampling on the blackthorn saplings. Many thanks.<br />
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<br />Richard Smythhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08322493151318587770noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-28975811605456323952016-08-10T22:21:00.000+01:002016-08-10T22:21:03.179+01:00Early days at Grafton WoodI read on the Grafton Wood blog that the first Brown Hairstreaks (including females) were seen on August 4th. I arrived last Sunday on a warm, sunny but windy day, feeling very hopeful of early season sightings. I walked the main rides for 3 hours, seeing a particularly strong showing of Gatekeeper, Brimstone and Silver Washed Fritillary. I was surprised that, although I saw 5 Purple Hairstreak (even on the ground), I did not see a single Brown Hairstreak in flight, at all, including around the pond area. My only observations were of two females, low in blackthorn, on the west side of the wood, either basking or nectaring on bramble.<br />
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Fortunately, one of the females was very photogenic and posed in virtually all the positions I wanted :-) for two minutes; then she was gone. There is something very special about our rarer woodland species. They spend most of their brief lives high in the canopy, rarely, if ever, descending so that we can fully appreciate their beauty. It is the fruitless hours or days that we spend travelling to, and searching these sites in vain, that makes these brief glimpses so very rewarding.<br />
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<br />Richard Smythhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08322493151318587770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-30304267226533313492016-08-04T08:07:00.000+01:002016-08-04T08:07:14.272+01:00Any sightings yet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anybody seen one of these yet. As the Purple Emperor season winds down, attention turns, hopefully, to Brown Hairstreak. I noticed on the Purple Empire that Brown Hairstreak were flying at Knepp, last week. As it is a long drive to my nearest site (Grafton Wood), I wondered whether they were out anywhere else yet. Many thanks.Richard Smythhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08322493151318587770noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-73585178757217976342016-01-10T21:51:00.000+00:002016-01-10T21:51:10.296+00:00Annual Transect Egg Count at West Williamston, Pembrokeshire<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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compared to reports of lower counts from other areas. Blackthorn management has continued to be
carried out on a rota basis by Nathan Walton, WTSWW officer and his volunteers, and it is worth noting that the areas where eggs laid were most concentrated correlates directly to the areas where most males were seen during
August and September.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">Aerial GPS locations of
2015 Brown Hairstreak eggs found along the foreshore transect (and beyond) with thanks to
Stephen and Anne Coker<b style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sunday
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<b><span style="color: #002d86; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">000 - 025<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">100 - 125<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">16<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Richard,
Paul, Alan and Chiara<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">poor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">125 - 150<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">20<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “
“ “ “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">poor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">150 - 175<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">20<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “
“ “ “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">175 - 200<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">32<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “
“ “ “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">good<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Bracken
Patch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">2<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Richard
and Paul<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">ok<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">200 - 225<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">66<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Madeleine,
George, Alan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">v good<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">225 - 250<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">32<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">v good<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">250 - 275<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">01<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “
“ “ “
“<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> ok<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">275 - 300<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">10<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “
“ “ “
“<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">v poor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Shallow
Pool<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">03<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> poor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">300 - 325<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">02<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">David and
John<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> ok<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">325 - 350<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">02<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “ “ “ “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> poor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">350 - 375<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">00<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “ “ “ “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> v poor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">375 - 400<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">01<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “ “ “ “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> v poor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">400 - 425<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">01<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nikki<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> poor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">425 - 450<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">07<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “
“ “ “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> poor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05552354285200826745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-26565616381708301652016-01-10T17:26:00.000+00:002016-01-10T17:26:10.738+00:00Egg survival summary from 2015 at West Williamston<h4>
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DgiXGOhR50c/VpKJlA5yjWI/AAAAAAAAAEw/3tzCMvBpSH8/s1600/1.%2BEgg%2Bpredation%2Bsurvey%2Bsite%2B2014.jpg3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="262" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DgiXGOhR50c/VpKJlA5yjWI/AAAAAAAAAEw/3tzCMvBpSH8/s400/1.%2BEgg%2Bpredation%2Bsurvey%2Bsite%2B2014.jpg3.jpg" width="400" /></a>Realising that I haven't yet written up the results of last winter's egg survival project I am posting a brief summary now before a much more satisfactory post with the results of our annual foreshore transect last month. <i style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The chosen survey
site was on the north side of top field, adjacent to the reserve’s small car
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original aim of the survey was to try to assess the number of eggs predated by
‘unknown’ predators over the winter months, in order to establish base information for future surveys,
including identification of possible predators. <span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">The survey was begun in September 2014, with fortnightly then monthy checks. By March 2015 40 of the established 196 eggs were missing or predated, with a further 17 eggs found
without tags. (A further 100 eggs were lost under different circumstances - see below).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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compares well with survival counts carried out by David Redhead in the Midlands where
survival rates appear to be slightly lower, being in the region of 75%. <span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="line-height: 115%;">horses that graze the field broke managed to 'predate' several eggs along with the tender twigs they were on.</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 115%;">85+ eggs were lost when the ‘over-enthusiastic’ contractor employed to top the meadow
failed to see the young tagged Blackthorn and removed them too. These numbers were not included in the 196 eggs surveyed mostly by David Redhead, in a much denser area of blackthorn inside the fence.</span></li>
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predation/egg loss was steady over the months from October to March. In the past one of the 3 small sample
survival counts had indicated that increased predation may have taken place very soon after the
earliest eggs were laid i.e. possibly taken by Warblers. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05552354285200826745noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-113212574645071092015-10-10T10:40:00.001+01:002015-10-10T10:40:17.146+01:00Another late Brown Hairstreak sighting in S W Wales......further to Thursday's post, yesterday, I came across another female (in fairly fresh condition) flying below us on a habitat hotspot in Cwm Hiraeth, near Newcastle Emlyn in NW Carmasrthenshire - Teifi valley, where the species still thrives, largely due to high concentration of small holdings and low penetration of modern agriculture.<br />
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Anyone, who can contribute to other request on Thursday re growing blackthorn from seed, please share with us.Richard Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168496241631177228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-35744834507237282482015-10-08T20:48:00.000+01:002015-10-08T20:49:31.228+01:00Whilst working out a coppicing plan, I disturbed a Brown Hairstreak this afternoon in a deep valley in a field of one of our few remaining southern Carmarthenshire sites. We've apparently gone from 56 sites in 2006 within 15kms of Carmarthen, down to just 6 still occupied. This includes one large site, part of which we manage.<br />
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On a related matter, although coppicing to regenerate via suckering is our main tool, the owner of one of the managed sites also wants to grow his own Blackthorn from seed (sloes) in his own tree nursery, so that they can be planted out into new hedges, and is asking for any tips on germination, growing etc. Does anyone have or can point me to suitable experience/advice please. Thanks.<br />
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<br />Richard Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168496241631177228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-35316439038497096312015-09-08T08:37:00.001+01:002015-09-08T08:37:52.610+01:00GRAFTON BROWN HAIRSTREAKS STILL GOING STRONGI visited Grafton Wood yesterday for the first time since the cloudy, and hence somewhat disappointing, Open Day eight days ago. However it was a beautiful sunny day yesterday and I was rewarded with five sightings of separate female Brownies.<br />
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It was fairly chilly when I first arrived in the wood at 10:30, even though it was sunny, but it gradually warmed up and about an hour later I had my first sightings of two females in a large overgrown hedgerow, to the north of the main pond.<br />
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Walking back towards the pond, Steve then spotted another female flying and basking on a different stretch of hedgerow. No more sightings at the pond, although I'd earlier met someone who'd seen a female in an Oak tree there first thing in the morning at around 9:30.<br />
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At about 2:15 Steve and I both decided to call it a day and walk back to the car park. However<br />
on the way back, Steve pointed out the area where he'd had his first sighting of the day - on a hedgerow roughly halfway between the church car park and the wood. Believe it or not, within a few seconds there it was - flying out of the hedge and stopping to bask just in front of us.<br />
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This was the fifth separate female I'd seen on the day, and shortly afterwards I spoke to another guy who'd had a sighting of a female right in the middle of the wood. That one, together with the one seen early on near the pond, plus my five sightings, meant that at least seven separate female Brownies had been seen in or near the wood yesterday. Evidence that the flight season is still very much alive!Simon Primrosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02459528646053074269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-71936671123365873442015-08-30T16:34:00.000+01:002015-08-30T16:34:50.504+01:00Blasted to Kingdom Come...<span style="font-size: large;">The Gloucestershire - Wiltshire border suffers from a foul and abusive climate...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sun reappeared on Friday August 28th, after several days of wind and rain. I went out streaking, of course, but struggled to see a single battered male before cloud billowed up around 10.30. My guess is that the males have been blasted away here, though there certainly should be egging females lingering on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The North Wilts flight season seems to end early - the butterflies are usually gone by the end of the first week of September, after starting circa 26th July (25th July this year). Males disappear around 20th August leaving a tail of females. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Had August been better I would have returned to Shipton Bellinger in pursuit of that elusive century... As it is, I'm going to Knepp Wildlands in West Sussex for a few days this week. Knepp also supports a strong population. Watch this space...</span>Matthew Oateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03706087929842253429noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-46544483864586029352015-08-30T12:46:00.000+01:002015-08-30T12:46:15.686+01:00Weather-beaten but undeterredAfter a highly promising start to the season, Pembrokeshire Brownies have been battered by nine successive days of storms, wind and rain.<br />
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Saturday 29th August provided a short window for any remaining betulae to get down to business again, but in a four hour visit between 10am and 2pm, I only managed to find one solitary female doing so, although she did provide a fascinating 20 minute tutorial regarding behaviour.<br />
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Previously, I'd only ever seen females lay eggs in isolation, but this one laid two, one after the other, on the same fork of a blackthorn sucker.<br />
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The images below show this process taking place, with the two freshly laid eggs then photographed immediately after the butterfly had moved away. This individual had a deformed right hindwing which, whilst unfortunate for her (though it didn't seem to impair her flight), allowed the abdomen to be clearly seen during ovi-positing.<br />
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She was found at 1.33pm and remained in ovi-positing mode until 1.54pm when she flew out into the open field before veering back round towards the shrub line whereupon I lost sight of her.<br />
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This site really needs some fine weather over the next couple of weeks. The Hairstreaks are there (albeit in reduced numbers thanks to the storms), but they are largely imprisoned by the atrocious conditions, meaning that egg-laying is simply not on the agenda except for during rare and brief bright periods.<br />
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<br />David Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15005781139991926622noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-11171639078818798772015-08-22T12:10:00.000+01:002015-08-22T12:10:31.566+01:00The big descent has started out west
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of the Hairstreak Weekend at the West Williamston WTSWW Reserve in
Pembrokeshire 27 Brown Hairstreaks were observed - a record for the site in one
day - we see Matthew's 76 as a challenge for the 2016 event.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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mainly males spread across two sets of ashes and an isolated ash but 5 were low
level females of which 3 were observed egg laying. After they had disappeared
15 bright white shiners were discovered including one triplet and one doublet.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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ashes were under surveillance from 07:30am and the first male flight was
observed at 08:05am. For the next two hours things were pretty hectic with
three dog fights observed when a pair of males spiralled high above the ashes.
Things began to quieten down after 10am and the last male flight was observed
at 10:40am. The first female descended just before midday but it was just over
an hour before egg laying was observed. All went quite when clouds rolled over
the sun about 2pm.<br />
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16<sup>th</sup> August 2015<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Day 2 was a
shadow of Day 1 - only 10 Brown Hairstreaks seen - all up in ashes and
relatively lethargic and definitely no more egg laying. The weather on the two
days was similar. Typical betulae behaviour - one day all guns blazing, the
next spent in harbour refuelling.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Another
visitor reported a total lack of action at West Williamston but meanwhile they were putting
on a show at the Teifi Marshes WTSWW reserve in north Pembrokeshire with four sightings. Three low
level nectarers on hemp agrimony were seen by Maggie Sproule & Sarah Bebb.
From Maggie's photos two were definitely males and the third almost certainly
so (only underside seen). The fourth was heading for the hemp agrimony when the
two incumbents decided to see it off.<br />
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Below is a non-nectaring female at West Williamston photographed by Jerry English on 15th August and a nectaring male at Teifi Marshes phtographed by Maggie Sproule on 17th August.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">As far as I can ascertain Teifi Marshes is the only site in Wales where
nectaring Brown Hairstreak are seen - can anybody please explain this to me?</span><br />
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David R in Pembrokeshirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13366414151717175335noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-32860162678813115612015-08-20T09:47:00.000+01:002015-08-20T09:47:02.204+01:0011th August - Grafton Wood<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Apologies for the lateness of this!<br />
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Had a successful day at Grafton Wood on 11th with Simon Primrose
and Richard Smyth. 4 different Brown Hairstreak (3 male, 1 female), all
in different areas of the wood (one of these seen by John Tilt). 3 Small
Copper, Purple Hairstreak, Brimstone, Painted Lady, multiple
Silver-washed Fritillary, Common Blue and the usual suspects - Peacock,
Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Ringlet, Small White, Large White,
Green-veined White. Also found a poor White-letter Hairstreak that was
in <span class="text_exposed_show">the process of being chomped by a crab spider.</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show"></span><span class="text_exposed_show"></span>A quick reminder to everyone visiting over the next few weeks - <b>the orchard hedgerow is still
out of bounds and should be avoided</b>. It is NOT on a public footpath and
is private land. The Brown Hairstreak is very widespread within the
wood and can literally be seen anywhere! To aid new visitors, there are now signposts and maps up showing the best areas to find the Brown Hairstreak. <br />
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The Grafton Wood Open Day is on 30th August this year and is bound to be a great social occasion, combined with some good sightings of Brownies. Hope to see some of you there :) </div>
Gillian Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367751019734111302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-65223225885304679522015-08-16T00:13:00.000+01:002015-08-16T00:13:47.150+01:00Sussex Off, But Slow Start<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z7wWQdC93rQ/Vc_E2xcXphI/AAAAAAAAA18/je1pJWjUCHA/s1600/BC%2BBrown%2BHairstreak%252C%2BSteyning%2B15.8.15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z7wWQdC93rQ/Vc_E2xcXphI/AAAAAAAAA18/je1pJWjUCHA/s200/BC%2BBrown%2BHairstreak%252C%2BSteyning%2B15.8.15.jpg" width="151" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-941ETagzvAo/Vc_EodyekUI/AAAAAAAAA1o/_SiCIhkcHig/s1600/BC%2BBrown%2BHairstreak%2B%2528m%2529%252C%2BSteyning%2B12.8.15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-941ETagzvAo/Vc_EodyekUI/AAAAAAAAA1o/_SiCIhkcHig/s200/BC%2BBrown%2BHairstreak%2B%2528m%2529%252C%2BSteyning%2B12.8.15.jpg" width="150" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z7wWQdC93rQ/Vc_E2xcXphI/AAAAAAAAA18/je1pJWjUCHA/s1600/BC%2BBrown%2BHairstreak%252C%2BSteyning%2B15.8.15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N0dROecuArE/Vc_EypWIpuI/AAAAAAAAA10/wKAMVSVWkS0/s1600/BC%2BBrown%2BHairstreak%2Bab.%2Buncilinea%252C%2BSteyning%2B12.8.15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N0dROecuArE/Vc_EypWIpuI/AAAAAAAAA10/wKAMVSVWkS0/s200/BC%2BBrown%2BHairstreak%2Bab.%2Buncilinea%252C%2BSteyning%2B12.8.15.jpg" width="150" /></a>The Brown Hairstreak season in Sussex is now fully underway, but we are still in the very early stages, as the butterfly calendar continues to run late. <br /><br />The best Sussex sites have always been very poor at providing low-level males, although they make amends by producing such high numbers of obliging females. After getting a nice male at Cissbury Ring (8 August) I was even more pleased to get my best ever shot of a male at Steyning on Wednesday afternoon (12 August, top left), when the clouds suddenly cleared and the temperature increased rapidly. 'Pleased' turned to 'delighted' when I subsequently flushed a female from low in a bramble patch - but she didn't go far. 'Delighted' then gave way to excitement, as I noticed the irregular patterning on her hind wing (bottom left). This ab. <span style="font-style: italic;">uncilinea</span> is apparently a first for Sussex!<br /><br />Today (15 August) started well, as I returned to the same site at Steyning, which is about 1 Km from the famous Rifle Range. I found two females, one of which remained stationary for 45 minutes, despite the warm, sunny weather (top right). <br /><br />I later moved on to the Range, where quite a few hopefuls were staring up at the Ash trees. Unfortunately, that's where the hairstreaks stayed. I saw ones and twos scattered around the site, including females, but the big descent to start egg laying is still (eagerly) awaited. None of the females I have found to date has shown any interest in ovipositing.<br /><br />We are still in that period when the Brown Hairstreak is hard to locate, but they are all in mint condition and fairly inactive. A week from now they will be down in numbers, but fidgeting in and out of the thorn and rapidly collecting nicks and scratches. <br /><br />The main course is yet to come.<br />
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<br />Neil Hulmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16790227844272003910noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-91072911759943862172015-08-15T20:18:00.000+01:002015-08-15T20:18:06.032+01:00Brother Betulae Erupts!<span style="font-size: large;">This morning I counted 76, repeat 76, Brown Hairstreaks in 2 hrs 15 mins, of which about 30 mins were too cloudy for flight, at Shipton Bellinger on the Hants - Wilts border. I kicked off with 34 in 37 mins, but would have done better had I arrived 30 mins earlier (I got there at 8.50). Nearly all were males, in varying condition but including a number that seemed freshly emerged. I hit the last ball of my innings for 7 - the most I've ever seen together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a personal record. In the past I've managed to get to 50 there, before the males conked out for the day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two questions. 1) Has anyone ever bettered this tally? (Neil Hulme need not apply). 2) Is Brother Betulae having a good year? (I've been quite pleased by numbers in N Wilts, but that population is not a patch on the Shipton Bellinger one). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The habitat at Shipton Bellinger is green lanes and hedges with abundant sloe on rough MOD-owned grazing land, on chalk, like this -</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Matthew Oateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03706087929842253429noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-51944777992655567402015-08-12T19:06:00.001+01:002015-08-12T19:06:18.077+01:00Another male nectaring at GraftonIt was a long wait, as the 2mph wind took four hours to bring in the first blue sky to Grafton Wood, on Aug 11th. Shortly afterwards, however, Gillian spotted a male nectaring, opposite the pond area, at around 3pm.<br />
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Like Mike, I've observed that WLH and PH seem to be coming down to nectar much more frequently than usual, this year, although I have no idea why. There were three other sightings of males nectaring at various locations around the wood, mainly on hemp agrimony, on the day. Hopefully, the next two days of rain will pass without too much damage, as next week should be good at Grafton.Richard Smythhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08322493151318587770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-40324961322681407832015-08-09T21:58:00.003+01:002015-08-09T21:58:44.213+01:00Waiting no longerThe first Brown Hairstreaks were seen at Grafton Wood last Thursday: a male and more surprisingly an egg-laying female. Saw both White-letter Hairstreak and Purple Hairstreak the same day all three nectaring on hemp agrimony and in the case of the male Brown Hairstreak bramble. Wondered if this might suggest a shortage of aphid honeydew this year. What has been the experience elsewhere?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12444285470590822471noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-73477112784041923972015-08-01T10:34:00.001+01:002015-08-01T10:34:41.530+01:00Still waiting in WorcestershireAlthough Brown Hairstreaks have already been reported further south we are still awaiting our first sighting in Worcs. Made my first early morning visit to one of our known assembly trees yesterday but no success so did a Big Butterfly Count instead. Over the last few years we have always seen our first Brown Hairstreak before the end of July but this year looks as if it is the exception. It has been a decidedly odd season with a number of species on the late side and it is only now, for example, that Peacocks are beginning to be seen on a regular basis. Anyway, hopefully not too much longer to wait!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12444285470590822471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-12894382229940759212015-04-15T15:30:00.000+01:002015-04-15T15:30:46.170+01:00Eggs Now HatchingI am fortunate enough to have three Brown Hairstreak eggs in my front hedge here in Crawley, West Sussex. All have survived predation and the first of them hatched this morning (15th April). The egg was south-facing and the larva was located making its way to the nearest leaves. The plant is Cherry Plum (Prunus cerasifera) which has been in leaf for some weeks. I have also been monitoring eggs on nearby Blackthorn where the buds are now just breaking and found another hatched egg (also south-facing). Last year eggs in this area were reported to be hatching on 5th April.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13898968089524651361noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-42221411274303855222015-03-14T08:22:00.001+00:002015-03-14T08:22:35.053+00:00Tagged eggs warningFor the second time we have had tagged eggs removed from one of our Worc nature reserves presumably by a butterfly breeder/collector. The incident happened at Trench Wood reserve where eggs had been marked ironically to ensure that they were not removed by accident as part of routine ride maintenance. Over 20 eggs were taken, virtually every single egg laid at Trench Wood this winter! This follows a similar incident at Grafton Wood back in 2010. It is pretty appalling to think that there are unscrupulous individuals around that would take eggs from a nature reserve in this way but clearly there are and by publicising the incident we hope that similar incidents can be avoided. For our own part at West Midlands Butterfly Conservation we shall not be marking any eggs in the future.Mike Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08949865698709976136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-29306452525911370202015-03-10T11:26:00.000+00:002015-03-10T11:26:12.444+00:00Annual Transect egg count 6th December 2014Eighteen wonderful volunteers turned up for the count, travelling from far and wide. Thank you everyone for making such an effort.<br />
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The count was low - given that the count the previous year was the highest ever with 651 eggs found on the day along the 500m foreshore transect.<br />
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Williamston SSSI Annual Brown Hairstreak Egg Count</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <u><o:p></o:p></u></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sunday
December 6<sup>th</sup> 2014. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Area<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">No <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Volunteers<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 8.0pt;">Blkthorn
status previous year<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 8.0pt;">Blackthorn
management<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #002d86; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">000 - 025<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #002d86; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">19<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Steven,
Anne, John &
Viv<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">v good<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #002d86; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">025 - 050<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #002d86; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">39<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “ “ “ “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">v good<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">B
Glade<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">16<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “ “ “ “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> good<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">B
Glade 2nd<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “ “ “ “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> ok<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="color: #002d86; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">050 - 075<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002d86; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> 11<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
“ “ “ “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">good<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002d86; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">075 - 100<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002d86; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
7<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “ “ “
“<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> ok<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
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<br /></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">100 - 125<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">12 <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">David, Andy,
Ruth & Val<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">poor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
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<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">125 - 150<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “
“ “ “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">poor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">150 - 175<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “
“ “ “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">good<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">175 - 200<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> 10<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “
“ “ “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">good<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Bracken
Patch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> 8<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">good<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">200 - 225<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Richard,
George, Paul, Gareth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">v good<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">225 - 250<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> 35<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> and Tony<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">v good<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">250 - 275<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
9<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “
“ “ “
“<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> ok<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">275 - 300<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
2<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “
“ “ “
“<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">v poor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Shallow
Pool<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002d86; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
</span></b><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">1<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">David, Andy, Ruth & Val</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> poor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">300 - 325<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nathan, Kiara,
Alan & Nikki<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> ok<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">325 - 350<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “ “ “ “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> poor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">350 - 375<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “ “ “ “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> v poor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">375 - 400<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “ “ “ “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> v poor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">400 - 425<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
5<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nathan,
Kiara, Alan & Nikki<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> poor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">425 - 450<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
2<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “
“ “ “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> poor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 63.8pt;" valign="top" width="85">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">450 - 475<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 38.3pt;" valign="top" width="51">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
1<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 238.1pt;" valign="top" width="317">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> “
“ “ “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> poor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><u><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(NB 1st
December 2013 – <b>transect total</b> = <b>651 …….
<span style="color: #c00000;">end March 2014</span></b> <b>overall reserve total = 1,661 eggs</b></span></u></i><i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">.)<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05552354285200826745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643023906590853792.post-5924824962470604632015-03-10T11:12:00.000+00:002015-03-10T11:12:23.053+00:00West Williamston Egg Predation Survey – blog no 9 mid November 2014<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">The
big miss-hap, or ‘accidents do happen’<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Our study site at West Williamston was divided into 2 halves …..
one - an area outside the electric fence consisting of the youngest blackthorn
and surveyed (after the first two weeks) by me, and the other - the area
between the electric fence and the field boundary - surveyed by David (Redhead)
and consisting of 1 to 3 year old blackthorn much denser in nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Shortly after the eighth survey session the grass in the
Reserve’s top field (where our survey was taking place) was cut as part of
planned management. Unfortunately the contractor failed to see the tags marking
very young blackthorn in the field on the outer side of the electric fence. The tags, eggs and blackthorn were almost all
lost (eggs right under the fence fortunately avoided the chop).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">This was a bit of a disaster from the ‘overwintering egg
predation’ survey’s point of view – or my half of it. David’s half remains safe and intact being
located inside the electric fence between it and the tree-line fence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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eight satisfying and illuminating week’s worth of data including recounts,
recording, and the dates new eggs were found. The most interesting outcome to me was
establishing that eggs found in a ‘triple’ were laid as a pair and then added
to days later. This indicates that there was something special about that particular spot – the small bush was surrounded
by extensive blackthorn that
appeared to be just as suitable in every way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the site being intact. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">David has continued his counts into November and from now on the
eggs will be re-found between now and the end of April to show which months the
greatest predation takes place.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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