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This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and the
Adur Valley & District, West Sussex, England
Local News
Wildlife Notes -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
WILDLIFE REPORTS
January 2004
7 January 2004
Incongruously on a loose twig, a few bodies of the Jew's Ear Fungus, Hirneola auricola-judae, were discovered amongst the mosses underneath the Hawthorn scrub. Incongruous, because none of the living trees nearby were hosts to this fungus. An old bird's nest with a moss base was visible high up in the Hawthorn.
In the copse at the top of Mill Hill, the workmen had sawn down some of the pine trees and made a small fire. I think these were the Corsican Pines, Pinus nigra var. maritima.
There were at least ten Magpies in the field between Mill Hill Nature Reserve and Old Erringham Farm and a flock of over a dozen Goldfinches near the flint outbuildings.
6 January 2004
Amongst the prefabricated huts on Golden Sands Caravan Park, near Widewater Lagoon, Lancing, a female Black Redstart was recognised. This bird was not been recorded before on these Nature Notes pages and has probably been overlooked as the bird is plain in colour. This bird is usually a fairly common Winter Visitor.
In the stroud by the Withy Patch, New Monks Farm, Lancing, the Jew's Ear Fungus, Hirneola auricola-judae, was beginning to turn gooey.
There was another white fungus or lichen on the trunk of a living tree amongst the prevalent rotten wood.
5 January 2004
As the Shoreham Harbour fog horn boomed, four Oystercatchers, Haematopus ostralegus, probed for worms amongst the mussel beds and sand on Kingston Beach at low tide.2 January 2004
Caespitose amongst the grass and tree roots on the Cokeham Reed Beds (west Lancing) several orange-brown mushrooms poked their caps above the leaf litter.
Colin J has tentatively identfied this species as Gymnopilus junonius.Another Image (underside)NB: This ID has NOT been confirmed (just a possible).
I plumped for Tubaria furfuracea (AH), and Malcolm Storey (BioImages) thought it was more likely to be this species.
Another similar fungus was seen in the same location. Malcolm Storey has suggested the strong possibility it could be the Tawny Funnel Cap? Lepista inversa (=Clitocybe flaccida). Message (Link). Image 2. This second species (left) has pale gills whereas Tubaria has orange gills.
Fungi of the British Isles (Yahoo Group)
Fungi of Shoreham (with images of Tubaria furfuracea)
Recommended English Names for Fungi
During a visit to a garden adjacent to the Cokeham Reed beds I was able to hear for myself the squealing call of a Water Rail. The call is regularly heard from this garden, the bird would have been at least 200 metres away, well concealed among the Phragmites australis Reed bed.
A small flock of half a dozen Long-tailed Tits visited my south Lancing garden (TQ 186 044). A Wren was also seen amongst the undergrowth.
1 January 2004
The first birds for 2004 were fifty noisy Starlings in the Sycamore Tree in Corbyn Crescent (the one that survived the storm of October 1987) almost simultaneously a Herring Gull flew past. (TQ 224 055).
With very little colour and green vegetation on the Downslink cyclepath, and patches of standing water and mud, sometimes the shyer birds make their presence known, but there was very little to see, Blue Tits were noticeable and a few Moorhens in the fields on the west side of the river next to Ladywell Stream (near Cuckoo's Corner, on the Coombes Road).Fungi of Shoreham (with more images)
Clumps of Velvet Shank, Flammulina velutipes fungus were growing on at least three trees to the north of Cuckoo's Corner.This is a typical species of late autumn throughout the winter. It is a remarkable species since it has its own built in antifreeze and can go through frosts unfazed and resume dropping spores immediately afterwards. Indeed, its growth and spore production are stimulated by cold.
Adur Fungi: Fruiting Bodies (Monthly Guide)
Adur Levels 2004
Adur Valley Book ListSussex Archaeological Society
http://www.sussexpast.co.uk
- Words
of the Week.
garigue | ari | n. Also -rr-. Pl. pronounced same. L19. [Fr.] In the south of France: uncultivated land of a calcareous soil overgrown with low scrub; the vegetation found on such land.
berm | bm | n. E18. [Fr. berme f. Du. berm, prob. rel. to ON barmr brim.] 1 A narrow space or ledge; esp. in fortification, the space between a ditch and the base of a parapet. E18. 2 A flat strip of land, raised bank, or
terrace bordering a river etc.; a path or grass strip beside a road. L19.
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Image Gallery
25 November 2003
With the leaves having been blown off of most of the broad-leaved trees, the photograph of the Mill Hill copse loses its autumn colours. The deciduous trees are Italian Alder, Norway Maple and Beech.
The tall evergreens are Corsican Pines.Photographs by Andy Horton
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