Cards to Green during the fortnight ending 24-Oct-12

 We had 13 cards submitted during the last fortnight that contributed towards the "Cards-to-Green" mini-project in KZN.
A dozen of them were from the 2831 degree-square and the other was from 2832.

 All of these cards were contributed by John and Kim Cox, an excellent effort on their part. Good to see that there were two pentads with only a single card that now have their second card.
Come on the rest of KZN, let's have some contributions from the rest of you as well!

Regarding the usual stats for KZN we had a definite upsurge in submissions. This happily coincided, as one would expect in spring, with an attendant surge in species per card as well.
We had 74 cards submitted over the last two weeks with an average of 64.1 records per card, which equals 4 747 records submitted.
This was at a submission rate of 5.3 cards per day, up from 3.6 last fortnight, and the highest rate since 29-Aug-2012. The last time that we managed an average of 64.1 or higher records per card was 15-Feb-2012. Though to be fair we did manage 63.8 for the period ending 26-Sep-2012.

Card Submissions for 29-09 to 10-10-12

Here is the latest "Cards-to-Green" map for KZN.
As per the last fortnight, we have again had exactly 10 cards submitted that have contributed to the CTG mini-project.
We now need another 1,785 cards in 963 pentads.
We also have 24 pentads with no coverage;
349 pentads with only 1 card;
252 pentads with 2 cards and
142 pentads with 3 cards.

This table shows number of surveys needed in the respective degree squares in KZN, as well as the change from the last fortnightly reporting period to the current one.
For a change we have had a spread from North to South.

These are the observers who submitted cards contributing to the KZN CTG project.
Many thanks to these observers.

I have also included this map which reflects all pentads with less than 7 cards.
This is aimed at those observers wanting to get out to these pentads.
Mpumalanga overtook KZN for the first time during this last fortnight in the percentage of pentads in their province with 7 or more cards.
We were both on 25.8% on 26-09-12, and as at 10-10-12, KZN is still on 25.8%, while Mpumalanga are now on 26.2%.
Well done Mpumalanga!

We have had a fairly slow fortnight in KZN with 2,686 records submitted, against an overall average to date of of 5,954 records/fortnight [192/day against 425/day average].
We also experienced a drop in species / card. We have been experiencing an expected spring upturn from a winter low of 52.0 at the end of May. For the fortnight ending 26-09 we had an average of 63.8 spp/card, while for this last fortnight we only managed 53.7 spp/card.