WILDLIFE
REPORTS
20
August 2020
Fifty
mostly adult Shore Crabs, Carcinus
maenas, were attracted to the chicken bait
in three small drop-nets in under an hour from the Toll
Bridge at high tide
on a sunny afternoon.
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17
August 2020
A
Plumed
Fanfoot Moth, Pechipogo
plumigeralis, rested in my lounge all day.
About
a hundred lively butterflies
on the lower slopes of Mill Hill, on a
humid afternoon, were led in frequency by Meadow
Browns,
with
Chalkhill Blues,
Common
Blues, Adonis Blues and Small
Heaths, An ambush predator the Hornet
Robber Fly stalked the winding path and
southern steps.
Mill
Hill Report
Adur
Moths |
12
August 2020
A
rumble
of thunder was first heard at 11:48
pm. Two faint rumbles was all I heard.
9 August
2020
The
Met
Office (Shoreham) shade air temperature
attained an unpleasantly hot 33.0 °C
at
3:00
pm and 4:00 pm, the highest
temperature this century.
Shoreham
Weather
7 August
2020
The
first winter Lapwing
was seen back on the River
Adur mud.
5
August 2020
Chalkhill
Blue
Mill
Hill Cutting
There
were at least ten male Chalkhill Blues
fluttering over the southern bank of the Mill
Hill Cutting on a sunny afternoon. There were an estimated forty more
seen on the lower slopes of Mill Hill.
3 August
2020
I
added two more species of butterfly
to yesterdays tally of 19:
a faded Comma
and a bright Small Tortoiseshell,
sharing the Buddleia
bush with Red Admirals,
on the western side of the South Downs Way bridge over the Adur
near Botolphs.
2
August 2020
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A
mating pair of Wall Browns
With
a breeze blowing the flowers
about there were scores of butterflies
fluttering over MiIl Hill and nearby (in
a good year, this would be hundreds) of nineteen
different species: Chalkhill Blues
(estimated
35 males+2),
frequent
Common
Blues,
Painted
Lady, (one at the top of Chanctonbury
Drive), frequent
Gatekeepers,
and occasional Meadow Browns,
a Speckled Wood
in the copse. and a mating pair of Wall
Browns plus one more, male
Adonis
Blues (4), a Red
Admiral and a Peacock
Butterfly. two Holly
Blues in the scrub, a Large
White and
a Small White,
two restless bright Clouded Yellows,
a tatty second brood Dingy Skipper on
the lower slopes, a tatty Small Skipper
and
a Brown
Argus
in the top meadow, a few bright yellow Brimstone
Butterflies, and a Small
Heath on the middle slopes.
2003
Report
LINKS
Adur
2019 Reports
August
2019
Shoreham
Weather 2020
EasyTide
(Shoreham)
Adur
Nature Notes 2013 |
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