This page is, unapologetically, self-indulgent.
When I’m out and about, I occasionally encounter biotopes that are unfamiliar, along with organisms I can’t immediately identify. When that happens, I take the time to gather enough information to make a proper identification and to learn more about what I’ve found.
I share these observations here partly to show my children what I’ve been up to while we’re apart, and partly as a personal record of the year — something I can revisit over the Christmas holidays, or browse through on quiet evenings in hotels far from home.
More importantly, these incidental encounters may carry a significance I do not recognise at the time, but later lead to breakthroughs in understanding and enable me to connect things that, at least superficially, seem unrelated.
By storing them here, I can find them again if they later turn out to be important.
