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This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and District,
West Sussex, England
8 August 2000 : Volume 2 Issue 29
Local News
2 August 2000
The Adur Valley EForum covering all aspects of life in the Adur Valley commences. You can join by spending a few minutes on the following site, and then you can post messages on almost anything about life in Shoreham-by-sea and the Adur Valley, including, Lancing, Sompting, Southwick, Steyning and the smaller villages in the valley.THE BEST WAY TO JOIN THE
is to click on the link to the
logo, and register as a new member. Allow 10 minutes on-line, but the process should be much quicker.
Then you can go to the Adur Valley page and register to join.
The following choices will have to be made:
1) Receive mail in a daily bulletin.
2) Receive each EMail individually (this may result in too many EMails)
3) Choose not to receive EMails, which means you can visit the web page to choose what subjects look interesting. You can, also, just receive a list of the subjects in a daily digest.
If the latter applies, you will have to click on the menu item Messages.4) It is also possible just to receive a daily digest of the subject headings.
These choices can be altered at a later date. They can also be altered by me, if you cannot work out how to do it.
Please send any comments to: Andy Horton
Glaucus@hotmail.com
Wildlife Reports
7
August 2000
Despite
being an overcast day, an unprecendented number and variety of Butterflies
fluttered
around the slopes (TQ 212 073) of Mill
Hill.
Flutters
of light blue flicked between the grasses and wild plants: the
Chalkhill Blue,
was common, only occasionally opening up its wings in the intermittent
rays of sunshine. Meadow Browns were
common as well (the eye spot when closed is noticeable).
Cabbage
Whites were more noticeable than their
frequent occurrence. The
variety was enhanced by the occasional Small
Tortoiseshell, a distinctive large
speckled butterfly (unidentified), singly,
away from any shade, and
a solitary obliging Marbled White,
that remained stationary and opened up its wings.
There
were thousands of Grasshoppers
(at least 2, possibly 3 species) in the long grasses.
ACFOR
sytem of abundance
Ray
Hamblett's Mill Hill & Beeding Hill Page
Immigration
of Lepidoptera
6 August
2000
Large
Bass,
up to 2 kg, cruised into the entrance of Shoreham Harbour, (TQ 235 048)
scattering the shoals of Sand Smelt,
Atherina
presbyter. The anglers were catching the attractively patterned Sand
Smelt at a length of 16 cm (excluding the caudal fin).
Swarms
of Moon
Jellyish, Aurelia aurita, are in Shoreham harbour.
A
small pod of Dolphins
were spotted near Hove Lagoon (from Jane
Fowler-Tutt)
6 August
2000
Recent
shore fishing trips have seen an increasing number of juvenile Thornback
Rays being caught along the Easbourne coastline after dark.
Most
of them are about the same size, about 8" to 10" across the wingspan.
Larger fish are still absent.
Is
this a sign of a successful breeding season ?
Rich
Huggett.
BRITISH
MARINE WILDLIFE FORUM PAGE
Thanks
for the report.
In
1998, I received a first hand report of small Thornback Ray captured by
Peter Talbot-Elsden in a shrimp net in less than 50 cm of water at Southwick
beach. AH
BMLSS
Sharks & Rays
Fishbase
(Fishes of the World)
Fish
List (British Marine)
British
Naturalists' Association (link)
Find
the Sites of Special Scientific Interest using this link:
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of the Earth SSSI Navigator
Words of the Week
- blenny
| bleni | n. M18. [f. L blennius f. Gk blennos slime
(with ref. to the mucous coating of the scales).] Any of various small
spiny-finned marine fishes belonging to the Blenniidae or a related family,
most of which are bottom-dwelling fishes of intertidal and shallow inshore
waters.
-
Star:
Latest Virus Information
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- Sussex Web Sites
BUTTERFLY blenny. smooth blenny: see SMOOTH a. & adv. viviparous blenny: see VIVIPAROUS 1.
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Excerpted from The Oxford Interactive Encyclopedia
Developed by The Learning Company, Inc. Copyright (c) 1997 TLC Properties Inc.
Computer Tips
The upsurge of EForums on all subjects (a few have been recommended before in these bulletins) are an important way in which the Internet will change the world.
Some forums get a poor reputation because of the number of idiots that can work a computer and join, which only goes to show how easy it is to become a subscriber. The Manager of the EForum can censor (moderate) messages and ban subscribers from sending messages. They usually end up doing so.
Poem of the Week
"Hey Rev,
Don't you know when you go in that bar
That the Devil goes with you!"
And the Rev says:
"If the Devil goes in with me
He can pay for his own damn drink
I ain't paying for it!"
And he was drunk again.
From "Drunk Again" by the late Champion
Jack Dupree.
More Information on Lancing (by Ray Hamblett) ***
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History
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First published 1921
Republished by SR Publishers
1971
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1 August
2000
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