- Adur Marine Life Reports
- Coastal & Intertidal 2013
Information
Coastal saline lagoons and the Water Framework Directive (NECR039)
A number of coastal saline lagoons in the UK have been identified as ‘water bodies’ under the Water Framework Directive. This means that there is a requirement to develop type-based classification tools to help assess their ecological status. This study was commissioned by Natural England to inform future work of the UK Technical Advisory Group and Marine Task Team in developing a national consistent approach to the assessment of lagoons under the Water Framework Directive.
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Events
Reports
7 May
2013
On
Widewater Lagoon, a pair of Mute Swans
escorted six small cygnets,
and three Bar-tailed Godwits
probed repeatedly in the mud on the shore edge.
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Bar-tailed
Godwits seem to be only a recent visitor to
the lagoon and
I have not recorded before the winter of 2012-13.
Previous
Report
2 May
2013
A
push-net shrimping expedition off Southwick
Beach, caught a meal of Brown Shrimp,
Crangon
crangon, plus some large venomous
Lesser Weevers,
Echiichthys
vipera, as well as a few Solenettes
(Slipper
Soles),
Buglossidium
luteum and 5-Bearded Rocklings,
Ciliata
mustela.
21
April 2013
Another
Dolphin
(or the same one as before?) was seen in the entrance to Shoreham Harbour.
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
4 March
2013
I
spotted by first reptile of the year: a single sandy coloured Wall
Lizard,
Podarcis
muralis, skittered
over the south facing wall of the Old
Fort, Shoreham Beach.
21
January 2013
There
was still some snow on the ground out of town and the downs were covered
in a white carpet. Even on the beach there was snow to be seen above the
high tide mark.
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Two
black Brent Geese
visited Widewater
where a male Kestrel
landed on the beach side of the car park near the bridge. A Meadow
Pipit perched on a chestnut fence. At
least one Teal
swam on the lagoon.
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10
January 2013
We
were amazed to see a Painted Lady Butterfly
flying north past Shoreham Old
Fort while out birding; our first butterfly
of 2013.
