Cover Illustration: Young Swift (Apus apus) gazing out from
an artificial nest box. See article on page 48. Photograph courtesy
of John Willis and the Fulbourn Swift Group.
Contents of Volume 56 (2014)
Great Dodder in Cambridgeshire (C.J. Cadbury and P. Harrington)
3
Ely Common: a contrast of high and low diversity. (E.V.J. Tanner
and I. Venjakob) 10
The Hoverflies of Fendrayton Lakes (P. Herkenrath) 20
The Fenland Flora at the end of 2013 (O. Mountford and J. Graham)
29
Fleam Dyke Scuttle Flies (R.H.L. Disney and J.P.E.C. Darlington)
32
Swifts in Cambridgeshire (Dick Newell) 48
Hawthorns in Madingley and Coton (Karen Alexander) 52
CNHS Survey report on Great Kneighton (J. Shanklin) 62
Wet Winter and Marsh Orchids on Chippenham Fen (Helen and Terry
Moore) 69
Vascular Plant Records (Alan Leslie) 72
Bryophyte Records (M. Burton and C.D.Preston) 79
Invertebrate Report (Louise Bacon) 81
OBITUARIES 83
BOOK REVIEWS 92
Weather notes from Cambridge University Botanic Garden 2012
(Sally Hughes) 94
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