WILDLIFE
REPORTS
1 October
2023
Sunny
and pleasant, 21°C
at 2 pm, warm
for October.
5 September
2023
On
a sunny day, the highest air temperature of the year of 29°C
was attained at 2 pm. Met
Office Shoreham. This was the highest temperature since last
year.
3 September
2023
A
great selection of birds at Mill Hill in the morning. The Red
Backed Shrike was still showing well &
catching flying insects. Also Spotted Flycatcher
and
Redstart.
21
August 2023
A
Buzzard
quartered over the vineyard on the levels below and to the west of the
steep lower slopes of Mill Hill on a warm cloudy afternoon. Within an hour,
four Kestrels
hovered over Erringham Hill to the north of Mill
Hill Nature Reserve.
4 August
2023
Mill
Hill
Still
dry but cloudy for an afternoon visit to the lower slopes of Mill Hill
where a score or more Chalkhill Blues visited
Marjoram
with
Common
Blues
with Brown Argus, Gatekeepers, Meadow
Browns, Peacocks,
Red Admirals, occasional Brimstones
a
Wall
Brown, an Adonis
Blue and
Six-spotted
Burnet Moths.The visit was brief.
20
February 2023
A
young
seal pup engineered a spectacular route
back to sea from Kingston Beach on a low spring tide.
13
February 2023
Adult
Adders
venture out in the open on the upper slopes of Mill Hill.
Many
people, including Dawn Jayne Anthony-Unsted
saw the meteor Sar2667
from Widewater, Dawn
just happened to be looking at how bright the moon was in the early hours
when she saw it. It lit up our room.
For
more new reports go to
Adur
Valley & Downs facebook
Shoreham
Birding facebook
Wildlife
& Conservation of Lancing, Sompting & Surrounds facebook
World
of Widewater
facebook
Sussex
Ornithological Society Sightings
Butterflies
of the Biosphere
Mill
Hill Nature Reserve on facebook
December
Reports 2022
Adur
Butterflies 2022
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