Hello everyone,

If the bumble bee survey is not enough to satisfy your appetite this summer,
then please consider contributing to this year's square-bashing exercise run
by the Herts&Middlesex branch of Butterfly Conservation.

Details are referenced in John Murray's email below. Feel free to spread the
word as widely as possible.

For those not familiar with the HMBC website, I can thoroughly recommend
it - http://www.hmbutterflyconservation.org.uk/

Cheers,
Keir.


----- Original Message -----
From: "J.B.Murray" <J.B.Murray@...>

Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 12:34 PM
Subject: 2004 challenge


Dear All,

2004 is the final year of our second 5-year butterfly mapping project,
and Liz Goodyear has now put a map on the website that shows coverage of
Herts & Middx. up to the end of 2003. She is also going to put yellow
squares for the locations that recorders have said they will cover. The
map and instructions can be found at:

http://www.btinternet.com/~michael.goodyear/BCHM/Recording/all_speciesdistributi\
on2000-3.htm


There are plenty of blank squares left, and even more "blue dot"
squares, most of which have only had one visit in poor weather. Please
have a look at this, and if you can afford the time to visit some of the
blank areas, then let me and Liz Goodyear know, and she will colour your
squares yellow to avoid duplication by others.

The decline of butterflies has been on the national news lately, and as
well as transects we need to show how butterfly distributions are
changing, so a good coverage of our area is important.

Best of luck,

John Murray



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