EVENTS
6 April
2013
Friends
of
Lancing Ring
Coffee Morning
Venue:
The Holy Family Catholic Church Hall at Monks Farmhouse in North Road,
Lancing
Time:
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lancing
Ring Slide Show
WILDLIFE
REPORTS
21
April 2013
Another
Dolphin
(or the same one as before?) was seen in the entrance to Shoreham Harbour.
Previous
Report
Butterflies
were seen in double figures for the first time this year: ten Peacock
Butterflies, three Comma
Butterflies and one Red
Admiral on Mill
Hill.
Butterfly
List 2013
19
April 2013
My
first confirmed hoverfly
of the year was a Drone Fly, Eristalis,
but I have missed a few in the last week. Over the Curlews (a close in
Shoreham near Hamm Road Allotments) I spotted a white butterfly
fluttering in the distance and it was almost certainly a Small
White Butterfly.
15
April 2013
A
second day of weak sunshine and a few insects
were buzzing around: frequent Buff-tailed
Bumblebees on the outskirts of Old Shoreham,
my first Common Bee-fly
was seen on the Waterworks Road
with the fast fluttering of three butterflies.
When one of them finally settled, they were recognised as the first Comma
Butterflies seen this year over the Waterworks
Road. (The footpath
was still fenced off). These will be new emergences.
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Comma
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Common
Bee-fly
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Peacock
Butterfly
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On
the cyclepath south of the Toll
Bridge another butterfly flew rapidly
in the breeze. This
settled as well and was discovered to be a Peacock
Butterfly which
would have come out of winter hibernation.
In the afternoon, three Small Tortoiseshell
Butterflies were seen over the Middle
Road Allotments from the track that runs along the western boundary. The
first Blackthorn
of the year was seen in flower.
Butterfly
List 2013
Adur
Butterflies: First Dates
14
April 2013
Bathed
by a weak sunshine and the welcome signs of a long awaited spring with
my first Swallow flying
low over the Adur mud flats seen from the southern end of the old Footbridge.
Later two adult Wall
Lizards,
Podarcis
muralis, poked therir heads of the carnot
wall of the Old
Fort, Shoreham
Beach.. They were a bit tentative and skittered
back into their holes in the wall when they got nervous, but the second
lizard popped back out again about ten seconds later. The west facing wall
was heated by the sun (at 13.0 °C)
The
air temperature reached a high of 16.1 °C
at 4:00 pm. This
was easily the highest of the year so far. (This
reading seems like an anomaly.)
Shoreham
Weather 2013
Met
Office: Shoreham
7 April
2013
Frog
tadpoles have hatched in a Shoreham garden
pond.
Report
by Sue Wright on facebook
6
April 2013
In
the morning the sky was blue, the temperature was 8°
C and I found two Adders
at Mill Hill.
Afterwards I visited Woods
Mill, the Sussex
Wildlife Trust Reserve and HQ where Snowdrops
were still in flower.
2
April 2013
For
just a few minutes I felt he brief and weak warmth of the sun from between
the white clouds, as I was battered by a chill north-east breeze (Force
5 gusting to Force 6).
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Field
Speedwell
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Lesser
Celandine
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Common
Mouse-ear
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A few
spring flowers were noted for the first
time. And I spotted only my second butterfly
of the year, a slightly tatty Small Tortoiseshell
on Stinging Nettles on the path to the west of Middle Road Allotments,
Shoreham.
A
Sparrowhawk
swooped between the houses in Dolphin Road and Corbyn Crescent, Shoreham,
the first conifrmed sighting my me of this bird of prey in my home road.
Butterfly
List 2013
Adur
Butterflies: First Dates
Shoreham
Weather 2013
April
2012 Reports
Adur
Flowers 2013
Adur
Nature Notes 2012 |
