KZN CTG 6 to 19 June

 The last fortnight saw 15 cards submitted that contributed to the Cards-to-Green effort in KZN.
The bulk were in Southern KZN, with five from around Melmoth and a single one from the Newcastle area.

2729 benefited  from a single submission, which means that only 10 more are needed and then all the pentads on the KZN side have at least four cards.
2831 benefited from 5 cards, bringing it's total needed down to 124. At the beginning of 2012 254 cards were needed, and at the beginning of 2013, 163.
3029 was the sole beneficiary of the 9 remaining CTG cards. 
2830 is still in need of the most effort, with 318 cards needed. 2830 has three pentads with no cover and 72 with only one card.

I think that this is the first time in ages that we only have three contributor's on the CTG Merit Table.
Tim Wood and his team head the table with their great contribution of 9 cards. Of these 9, seven were the second card for their respective pentads.
John and Kim Cox are second on the table with their five cards, this time from the Melmoth area.
Last, but certainly not least, Johan de Villiers contributed a card from the Mpumalanga border.

On the general KZN front we had 57 cards submitted for KZN, down from last fortnight's 84. This represents a drop from 6.0/day to 4.1/day. We seem to average around 4/day in winter.
The records/card number also dropped from 53.7 to 43.3, so it would seem that winter is finally setting in, as this number was also in the low 40's in the fortnight prior to the last.
Thanks to all who have contributed to SABAP2.

KZN CTG 23 May to 5 June

This last fortnight again saw 14 cards submitted that contributed to the CTG effort in KZN. Last fortnight had 27 cards, but the one before also had 14 cards, or exactly one CTG card/day.
This time the spread is from around Vryheid, inland from the North Coast and some north of the Durban-PMB axis.

2831 saw the largest gain with 4 cards followed by 2730 with 3 and 2930 with 2.
2830 gained a single card so now needs 318.
2931 inched a little closer to completion with another card submitted as well, so now 15 needed there.

The credits table continues to show variation, other than John and Kim Cox and Tim Wood, who featured again.
All six observers have featured on this table before, but the line up, sorted by most cards and alphabetically is:
Duncan McKenzie with 4
John and Kim Cox also with 4
Alan Manson with 2
Tim Wood with 2
Dave Everard and Malcolm Robinson each with 1.
Thanks to these observers who have managed to target their atlasing to contribute to the CTG effort.
On the general SABAP2-KZN front we had one card less than last fortnight, so 84 in total, or 6.0/day. This means that the CTG:Total percentage dropped from 32% to 17% percent, which is still a tidy effort.
In terms of records/card we have sprung back up to 53.7 records/card from last period's 45.6, so back where we were pre-winter.
Thanks to all observers who have contributed to SABAP2.

KZN CTG 9 to 22-May

The last fortnight saw 27 CTG cards submitted. This equates to a rate of 1.9/day, a rate last achieved in January when we had 2.0/day over a period of four weeks.
Most movement was in the south, around Harding and Kokstad, with the rest on the strip in from the North Coast.

Degree square 3029 had 11 cards submitted, 10 of which were the second cards for their pentads. The second biggest degree square contribution was for 2831, where seven cards were submitted. 3030 came in third with 4 cards, again with 3 being second cards.
2830 remains our biggest challenge with 319 cards needed, and three empty pentads. Second neediest are 2731 and 2732, both needing 183 each, but 2732 has seven empty pentads.
On the upside 2832 only needs six cards to be completely "green" while 2931 needs 16 cards.

In this period we again have some fresh faces, with Johan deVilliers, Kelly Gate and Ronald Searle each contributing a card, while Ewert Hauptfleisch, who has been featuring quite regularly, also contributing a card.
Honours this fortnight certainly go to Tim Wood and his team, who contributed 16 cards. All but one of these were for Southern KZN, which has in dire need of deeper coverage.
John and Kim Cox managed a really good seven cards, continuing their methodical coverage of the area within reach of Richard's Bay.

On the general SABAP2-KZN front, we had 85 cards submitted for this fortnight. This equates to 6.1 cards/day, while slightly down on our average of 7.9/day, it is still better than we usually get at this time of year. What is really great about these 85 cards though, is that 32% of them were well targeted at "CTG" pentads.
The number of records has finally dipped to 45.6 records/card, down from the 52.5 that we had maintained since the middle of March. So winter is finally biting.

KZN Pentad Charts

These pentad charts are a useful tool for planning atlas trips, especially as we start to add cards to pentads, these allow one to see the seasonality of submissions and so fill gaps in that way.
These maps are either available in xls format [click on the link on the right] or if you email me I can send you a pdf of the area that you are looking for. The pdf maps are only about 30KB as opposed to the 1.1MB of the xls files.

KZN CTG 25-Apr to 8-May

This fortnight saw the most submissions per day for Cards-to-Green in KZN since the middle of February.
We have had 14 cards submitted, two of which were for empty pentads, while another 4 were for pentads with only one card. There was also a good mix of observers, some having submitted for the first time in some years.

As we have come to expect, there was some good movement in the north, with three cards in 2732, and another in 2632.
The west also saw movement with cards in 2829, 2830 and 2929.
One card for 2930 saw this degree square continuing it's slow march to CTG closure, with only 43 cards needed now.
There was also some movement in the south with 3028, 3030 and 3130 receiving 4 cards in total and the two empty pentad cards.
The issue of which pentads are allocated to which province remains problematical as it is quite difficult to allocate these. According to my calculations we should have had 2 empties receiving cards, while according to the SABAP2 website, one of these was allocated to the Eastern Cape. In any event we have achieved better coverage for the whole of SABAP2.

The credits table also shows some good news with two observers who last submitted some years ago making a return. Welcome back Malcolm Rivett and Paul Bartho.
In fact, Malcolm leads the table this fortnight with 3 cards, followed by John and Kim Cox, Tim Wood and Trish Strachan all with 2 cards.
Alan Manson, Andy Branfield, Ewert Hauptfleisch, Lia Steen and Paul Bartho all contributed a card.
Thanks to all of these observers, these contributions are especially valued.

Looking at the overall KZN front, we have good movement in most areas. Not only has the the number of empty pentads decreased slightly, but we have had cards submitted for four pentads that only had one card. We also have 5 pentads added to those with seven or more cards, this is 28.3% of KZN's area. This keeps us quite competitive with Mpumalanga who are on 29.2% and the Western Cape on 28.5%. Both of these provinces had been drawing away from us.
In terms of daily submissions of cards we have moved right back up to 9.3 cards/day in the last fortnight, which is well above our average of 7.6. To give some background, the project figure is 56.1 cards/day for the last fortnight, made up by 12.6 from the Western Cape, 9.3 from KZN, 6.5 from Gauteng and the Eastern Cape, and 5.4 each from Mpumalanga and Limpopo. As such we compare quite well with the other provinces.
As in the last fortnight, our records/card figure has not dropped significantly either, we managed 52.5 records/card against 53.9 and 54.1 for the last two periods. The trend is definitely downward as expected as we go into winter, this is slower than usual though.

KZN CTG 9 to 22-May

 This last fortnight saw 27 cards submitted which contributed to the Cards-to-Green effort in KZN. This is nearly twice the number submitted for the previous fortnight. The daily average was 1.9 cards / day. The last time that we reached these heights was in January when we had four weeks of 2.0 / day.
These 27 cards included 15 second cards.
Well done KZN, especially for this time of year.
The most movement was in southern KZN, where a good number of pentads with a single card got their much needed second card. The next area of movement was in the inner coastal strip in Northen KZN.

The 3029 degree square benefited the most in this fortnight, gaining 11 cards, 10 of which were second cards.
The next biggest beneficiary was 2831 which got 7 cards, followed by 3030 with four.
We now need 1 540 cards for all of KZN to have four cards for every pentad.
The degree square needing the most coverage is still 2830, with 319 cards needed. This degree square still has three pentads with no data, 73 with only one card and 39 pentads with only 2.
Degree squares 2731 and 2732 both need 183 cards, with 2732 having seven pentads with no cover.
On the positive side 2832 now only needs 6 cards and 2931 sixteen.

Looking at who has contributed, again we have some new names on the merit list, with Johan de Villiers, Kelly Gate and Ronald Searle each contributing  a single card. Ewert Hauptfleisch who has been on and off these lists for the last few periods, again managed to contribute a card as well.
The big honours this time go to Tim Wood and his team who contributed a whopping 16 cards, with all of them, barring one in 2930BA, in southern KZN.
John & Kim Cox continued their sterling and methodical work in Zululand with 7 cards.
Thanks to these observers for their great contributions.

Looking at the overall SABAP2 contributions for KZN, we had 85 cards submitted in the last fortnight, which at 6.1 cards / day is not our lowest daily rate, but was  below our average of 7.9 cards/day. Really great to see that nearly a third of these were focused  on the CTG effort.
Unfortunately we experienced our first real major dip in records per card in this period, dropping from 52.5 records/card last fortnight to 45.6 in this one. Winter appears to be setting in.

KZN CTG 11 to 24 April

 As is often the case in mid-autumn, contributions to the atlas project have a tendency to slow, and this last fortnight was no different.
We had 6 submissions which contributed to the KZN Cards-to-Green project, with most movement in the south for change.

As can be seen from the table, there was one submission each in 2730, 2830 and 2930, while 3030 benefited from 3 cards.
This leaves 2830 as the degree square still n need of the most cards, at 322 and three pentads with no data and 73 pentads with only one card.
The next two degree squares needing the most cards are 2732 needing 187 and 2731, which needs 184 cards. 2732 also has the single biggest block of empty pentads, with seven located in the north-eastern part of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park.

Tim Wood takes the honours this fortnight with 4 of the six cards, viz. the three 3030 cards as well as the one in 2930.
John Burchmore contributed the card in 2730 and Alan Taylor the one in 2830.

On the overall KZN front we had 4.2 cards submitted per day. The last time that we dipped to this level was in September to October 2012, when we experienced three successive fortnight's of 4.3, 4.9 and 3.6. At least the last two fortnight's just passed have had rates of 7.1 and 7.2 cards submitted / day.
Our records / card level is surprisingly holding up at 53.9, the last two fortnights have been 53.5 and 54.1. So while the card number have dropped, the records/card have not.

KZN CTG 28 Feb to 10 Apr

The latest KZN CTG map shows change across the whole province, again with the most movement in the south-western Zululand region.
Apologies for the gap in blog entries, but with the suspension and then change in the SABAP2 website's Gap Analysis, I have not been able to produce the tables below. I have now changed my spreadsheet to read from the CSV [data file] that this map is produced from, so hopefully no more interruptions for some time.

22 cards were submitted in the 42 days of this period with degree square 2831 benefiting the most with 9 cards, 4 of which were the second card for their pentad.
2829 and 2830 were next best with 3 cards each, while 2731 and 2832 each gained two; while 2929, 2931, 3030 all gained a single card.
2830 remains the degree square with the most need of coverage, with 323 cards needed to turn the coverage map green.
2832 now requires only 6 cards, while 2828 needs 4 to turn the KZN part green - these would all be for one pentad. (The bulk of 2828 falls in the Free State and is quite well covered, but about a third is in Lesotho and is in dire need of more cards - the bulk of these, like the remaining KZN pentad, has no coverage).

The credit table for the CTG effort features some new names (in contribution and then alphabetical order):
David Maphisa with 2 (both for what was a blank pentad);
Alan Taylor, Crystelle Wilson, Ewert Hauptfleisch and Michael Lee all with 1.
Amongst our usual suspects, John and Kim Cox contributed a massive 13 cards in the SW Zululand, while Alan Manson and Tim Wood contributed 2 each.

Looking at the overall SABAP2 stats in KZN over the last 42 days since the last report, we have had 299 cards submitted, at a daily average of 7.1, while this is slightly below the overall average of 7.6 / day for KZN, it is better than normal for autumn, when we have dropped as low as 4.1 cards/day.
The number of records/card is also being maintained at a healthy 53.6/card, which is also above normal for this time of year.

Thanks to all who have contributed to this, and to SABAP2 in general.

KZN CTG 14 to 27 Feb

This last fortnight saw 5 cards submitted that contributed to CTG in KZN.
While this is a relatively low figure, our lowest since I have been keeping records in March 2011 is zero. The last time that we dipped to five though, was the fortnight ending 4-03-2012. It would seem that we have definite "heat of summer" dip towards the end of February.
In light of the ADU's new distribution maps CTG is now even more important. The new maps on the SABAP2 website show a species presence in yellow if there are less than 4 cards for that pentad, or if there is only ad hoc or incidental record data. In a sense then, data with less than three cards is equated with these latter data types, i.e. the species reporting rates really only become meaningful with 4+ cards. This should really spur us on to  pull as many pentads as possible up to the four card mark.

When looking at the distribution of submissions, 4 cards were submitted for 2831 and one for 2731.
2830 remains our degree square in most need of coverage with 326 cards needed.
2732 needs 187 while 2731 now needs 186 cards.

John and Kim Cox again topped the CTG contribution table with 4 cards, while we can add Klaus Achtzehn to our list of contributors, with a single card in 2731.

For KZN overall we had 68 cards submitted in the last fortnight, which is a rate of 4.9 cards/day. This is distinctly lower than our average of 7.6 cards/day. We are maintaining a relatively high number of records per card of 59.0 against our overall average of 55.3.

CTG from 31-Jan to 13-Feb 2013

During the last fortnight we had 15 cards submitted that contributed to the "Cards-to-Green" project in KZN.
This equates to an average of 1.1/day, which is slightly below our overall average of 1.4/day.

The bulk of the cards were submitted by Tim Wood, during an effort to add depth to the area east of Paulpietersburg, with 2730 getting 6 cards and 2731 two cards.
John and Kim Cox continued their systematic coverage of their area with 2830 getting 5 cards and 2831 a single one.
Malcolm Robinson contributed a single card in 2930 which picked off the single island west of PMB, which was standing out like a sore thumb.
2830 remains our degree grid cell with the poorest coverage, with 326 cards needed. A card for virtually any pentad in 2830 will contribute to CTG.
The next poorest cover is in 2731 and 2732, both needing 187 card s each.

Looking at our table of contributors, Tim Wood topped the submission this fortnight with 8, while John and Kim Cox submitted 6 and Malcolm Robinson 1.






For our overall KZN figures over the last fortnight we had 73 cards submitted at a rate of 5.2 cards/day, below our overall average of 7.6/day. The records/card remained high with 59.8 against our average of 55.3.
Thanks to all who are contributing to SABAP2 in KZN.

KZN CTG from 3-Jan to 30-Jan

The last 4 weeks saw 45 cards submitted that contributed to the Cards-to-Green effort in KZN.
The bulk of these were in the Vryheid and Amatikulu areas, but there has also been a steady chipping away throughout the rest of the province.
This represents an average of 1.6 cards/day, this is still 0.2 above our overall average.

The biggest movers on this table were 2730 and 2831 each with 9 cards, and 2731 with 6.
3030 got a surprising 5 cards thanks to Tim Wood's efforts on the South Coast. This area has been a concern since Barry Porter's passing away, as he used to cover this area quite well.
As stated above, there was also a steady chipping away thoughout the province.
I must point out that although this table reflects 44 cards, but there were actually 45 submitted. There was an old card incorrectly allocated to 2929DC, for pentad 2955_2930. This pentad has been reduced to a single card now.

We have a change in the leaderboard for this period, with Duncan McKenzie managing 3 more than John and Kim Cox's 12, for this period.
The full list per observers as follows:
15  Duncan McKenzie [mostly Vryheid area]
12  John and Kim Cox [just inland along the coastal plain from Mandini to Imfolozi GR]
 7  Tim Wood [S Coast inland]
 4  Alan Manson [Tugela Valley and Donnybrook]
 2  Lawrie Chivers [Dundee area]
 1  Felicity Ellmore [Weenen area]
 1  Jason Boyce [Mkuzi area]
 1  Malcolm Robinson [the troublesome pentad at Henley Dam outside PMB]
 1  Shaun Chamberlain [Newcastle area]
 1  Mr M Taioe [Matatiele area]

Generally for SABAP2 in KZN over the last 4 weeks we managed 7.32 cards per day at an average of 58.4 records per cards. Both of these numbers are still well above our provincial average, but with a distinct tail-off in records per card, from 70.5 in the last period.
With our visitors having left us, we have also dropped to our usual third place in the daily cards submitted table, with Gauteng edging back above us to 7.54 cards/day in second, and the Western Cape back to first on 9.96 cards/day.
Thanks to all contributors to SABAP2, especially in KZN.

CTG for 6-Dec-12 to 2-Jan-13

The  KZN CTG map has seen some movement since the last map was published on 5-Dec, mostly with the colour change of the 5 red pentads in the Magudu area and the two red pentads in the Utrecht area. This was the result of the Atlas Bash from 6-9 Dec, based in this area courtesy of Malcolm Robinson. Tim Wood and Bob McCosh did the two Utrecht pentads on the way home.
There was also some steady chipping through most of the rest of KZN, particularly in the Melmoth-Ulundi area, but also with some contributions throughout KZN.

56 cards were submitted in the period that contributed to the KZN CTG mini-project, i.e. 2 CTG cards / day in the last two fortnights.
The biggest gain was in the 2731 degree square, with 23 cards courtesy of the Magudu Atlas Bash.
Next was 2831 with 12;
2730 had 7 cards;
while 2732, 2830 and 2930 had 3 each;
the rest were 1's and 2's in various degree squares.
2830 remains the neediest degree square with 335 cards needed to turn green;
followed by 2731 with 195 cards.

Attributing CTG cards to observers, once again we have John and Kim Cox at the top of the table, but at least we have a number of other observers in hot pursuit:
15  John and Kim Cox -mostly around Melmoth-Ulundi
12  Malcolm Robinson -Magudu but also some around Umvoti
11  Tim Wood -Magudu but also the 2 blanks near Utrecht
 8  Colin Summersgill -Magudu, Middlerest and Underberg
 5  Duncan McKenzie -Vryheid area
 1  Alan Manson -Kranskop
 1  Dave Everard -Van Reenen
 1  Drummond Densham -Nsikeni
 1  Lawrie Chivers -Dundee
 1  Mr M Saunders -Harding

On the general submissions front we have been enjoying a bit of a purple patch with 8.5 cards submitted per day over the last 28 days. The previous highest for this stat was for the fortnight ending 4 Jan 2012, where we averaged 9.4 cards / day.
This high rate of submissions has not been at the cost of any quality, these cards have averaged 70.5 records per card. This is the highest records / card that I have recorded, since I have been keeping these stats on a fortnightly basis in Oct 2008. The closest that we have come to this was in Nov 2010 with an average of 70.1.
From a project perspective we are also doing well, this 8.54 cards/day is the highest for any region over this period. Next closest was Gauteng with 6.79 followed by the Western Cape with 6.54.
On a rolling average basis, the W Cape is doing the best with 9.11 cards/day; followed by Gauteng with 6.27; while KZN is averaging 5.99.

Thanks to all who are contributing to SABAP2.

CTG for 22-Nov to 5-Dec 2012

Herewith this fortnight's Cards to Green map.
As per last fortnight we have a slight correction, John Cox pointed out that I had missed one of the sliver pentads along the iSimangaliso coast. This pentad only has two cards, so I have added another 2 to the number of cards needed for degree square 2832 - which now needs 8 cards and not the 6 as published last fortnight.
We look forward to the next report, where the five RED pentads centred around Magudu should be yellow, and hopefully some yellows turned green, after this weekend's Atlas Bash to clear these empties.

 The biggest movement was in 2831, which saw 12 cards submitted which contibute to the CTG mini-project, thanks to John and Kim Cox for their diligent and well targeted coverage of the area surrounding Richard's Bay.
Our worst off degree square, 2830, got 3 cards thanks to Alan Manson's efforts on BBD.
Tim Wood effort's around BBD saw him active in the Matatiele area, where 3028 got two cards.

As mentioned above, John and Kim again led the charge with 12 cards, Alan with 3 and Tim with 2.

It is interesting to note that some of the QDGC that received relatively poorer coverage in SABAP1 are doing better this time around, some examples:

2730CC OSIZWENI had 7 cards and 173 spp in SABAP1 against the SABAP2 75 and 227;

2730DD VRYHEID with 20/169 against 109/323 - actually just about all of the QDGC's around Vryheid are like this, but Vryheid's stats are really good;

2830BA NQUTU 9/112 and 14/148;

2830DA COLLESSIE with 4/103 and 12/169;

2930BD NOODSBERG with 11/128 and 22/185.

Looking at KZN's entire submissions, we have dipped a little this fortnight falling from a high of 7.4 cards/day last period to 5.3 this fortnight. Our cards have however had an increase in records/card, now up to 64.1/card from 60.0.

To put the daily card submission rate in perspective against the other 11 regions, the W Cape leads with 7.4 cards/days, followed by Gauteng with 6.4, then the E Cape on 6.0.

Looking at a twelve week average, the cards/day for the regions are as follows:

1.  W Cape 9.5

2.  Gauteng 6.2

3.  KZN 5.6

4.  Mpumalanga 5.2

5.  E Cape 5.1

6.  N Cape 3.8

7.  Limpopo 3.7

8.  North West 3.6

9.  Free State 3.1

10. Namibia 1.6

11. Swaziland 0.2

12. Lesotho 0.1

CTG for 8-21 Nov 2012

This fortnight saw some good movement with 16 cards submitted that contributed to the "Cards-to-Green" mini-project. There was also an adjustment to a card in Degree Square 2732, where a pentad code was corrected, i.e. data for a pentad was moved from a "CTG-deficient" pentad to a "CTG-excess" one.

This adjustment shows the total cards on this table to have moved by only 15, rather than the sixteen.
Most submissions were in southern KZN, where John and Kim Cox were busy over the last fortnight, while the Midlands and Coast gained three and Northern KZN one.
2830 remains our most poorly covered degree square with 341 cards needed.
2832 only needs 6 cards to be completely 'green', while 2930 now needs 53.

The credit for the most contributions to the CTG project again goes to John and Kim, with 12 cards. Tim Wood submitted 2 cards, while Johan and Estelle van Rooyen, and yours truly submitted a single card.
John reported that they atlased over 40 pentads in southern KZN and the Eastern Cape, 17 of which were new pentads.
Due to the way in which the pentads are allocated to each province, six of these 17 new pentads were allocated to KZN on the SABAP2 web table, so KZN has moved up from 1265 pentads to 1271pentads with coverage. Thanks John and Kim!
Unfortunately I have been using my GIS to calculate the CTG contributions, and by my calculations only one of these fell mostly in KZN, this is the one reflected on this table. As Tim Wood so rightly says, we should be looking at all pentads regardless of provincial allocation, especially this corner of the Eastern Cape. In any event the boundary has been moved anyway, there should be a whole lot more to EC anyway.
On the overall KZN front we had another good fortnight with 104 cards submitted, still with a high average of 60.0 records/card. This equates to 445.6 records/day, this is well above the KZN average of 424.8. The last time we achieved this was in January this year.
Well done KZN, and many thanks to all who contributed.

CTG fortnight ending 7-Nov-12

I have added in the Cards-to-Green map again.
A definite trend is emerging, with the areas around Richard's Bay, Durban and PMB forming core areas with an ever-expanding area radiating out from here. The CTG pentads are getting further and further away from these three centres.

13 cards were submitted in the last fortnight that contributed to the CTG effort.
The largest movement was in the 2931 degree with 5 cards.
2731 and 2732 were then tied on 3 cards each, with 2830 following with 2.
2830 remains our most poorly covered degree square with 342 cards needed. Second neediest is 2731 with 219 cards.
On the positive side 2828 only needs 4 cards to have complete four card coverage within KZN, while 2832 only needs 6 cards.

Credit for contributing CTG's goes once again to John and Kim Cox with 5 cards. At least this fortnight Malcolm Robinson provided some competition with 3 cards, Hanneline Smit and Alan Manson each contributed 2 cards and Lance Robinson one.
We have in the last 2 fortnights had 13 CTG's contributed. The previous two fortnight's had 10 CTG's.

For all cards submitted for KZN we had a good fortnight with 97 cards submitted with an average of 62.2 records/card.
This equated to a submission rate of 6.9 cards/day which is certainly at the upper end of the scale for KZN.
An interesting stat is that this works out at 431.1 records/day. The last fortnight that we achieved this was 28-Mar-2012.

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.