Black
Horehound, Childing Pink
Silver
Sands
Viper's
Bugloss, Old Fort
Wildlife Reports
19
October 2020
A
Common
Sandpiper (a bird) visited
Widewater.
14
October 2020
A
Grey
Phalarope (a bird) visited Widewater.
12
July 2020
Another
Common
Seal was spotted on Kingston Beach
16
June 2020
I
visited Lady Bee Marina, Shoreham Harbour, where a easily spotted shoals
of juvenile Grey Mullet, Sand
Smelt and Bass
in the shallows. The Grey Mullet
shoals consisted of several hundred fish.
11 June 2020
Black
Horehound, Childing Pink
Silver
Sands
Viper's
Bugloss, Old Fort
Sea Kale and Tree Mallow had virtually finished and the eastern Shoreham Beach was now covered with great swathes of flowering Red Valerian and Silver Ragwort on the landward side of the wooden boardwalk. Viper's Bugloss was the most impressive especially near Shoreham Fort. Starry Clover had already gone to seed.
8 June 2020
Red
Valerian, Viper's
Bugloss
Silver
Ragwort
Shoreham
Beach Central
Great
Crested Grebe (juvenile)
Podiceps
cristatus
Lady
Bee Marina, Southwick
Photograph
by Sylvia
Lemoniates
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28 May 2020
Australian Black Swan
from
Shoreham Beach
Photograph
by Sylvia
Lemoniates
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26
May 2020
A
small
pod of dolphins were seen out of Shoreham
in the early evening.
Sea Kale at Shoreham Beach East
In the shimmering haze, vast swathes of Sea Kale were flowering on the shingle above the high tide mark on the eastern part of Shoreham Beach. In the zone nearer the shore Red Valerian was blooming amongst the leaves of Silver Ragwort. Tree Mallow was impressive as any previous year. I also noted frequent Oxford Ragwort, a few flowers of Kidney Vetch, and clumps of Thrift and Sea Campion.
9
May 2020
The
pair of Mute Swans
on Widewater had just one furry grey cygnet
with them.
Sea
Kale, Hoary Cress
Thrift,
Sea Campion, Mouse-eared
Hawkweed
Widewater
Flood Plain
The beach flowers were beginning to bloom in the sunshine, the first swathes of Red Valerian near the Church of the Good Shepherd, and Sea Kale, Hoary Cress, Thrift, Sea Campion, Mouse-eared Hawkweed, Cat's Ear, Bird's-foot Trefoil, Ivy-leaved Toadflax, Scarlet Pimpernel, on the Widewater flood plain. Five small blue-green beetles Psilothrix viridicoerulea were spotted on the flower heads. A Green-veined White Butterfly visited.
25 March 2020
Fossil from Shoreham Beach
Alert children's eyes spotted this very small flint fossil amongst the billions of other pebbles on Shoreham Beach (by Beach Green). It is a bivalve mollusc from the Cretaceous period and the Natural History Museum suggested it could be the bivalve Limatula with representatives still extant today.
PS: A very nice flint cast of a bivalve called Neithia from the Cretaceous chalk circa 85 million years ago. 14 March 2020
Pheasant
Photograph
by Judith Green
A male Pheasant was a surprise visitor to a garden on Shoreham Beach at the far eastern end near Shoreham Fort.
6
March 2020
After
gales
and rain throughout
February
the
line of seaweed
on the strandline on the shingle
beach was mainly the Egg Wrack,
Ascophyllus
nodosum, sometimes called Knotted
Wrack. Air filled flotation bladders are arranged
in lines along the main stipe in this brown
seaweed.
17
February 2020
There
was a brief interlude between the gales
and inclement weather: only enough
time to observe the strandline on the shingle
beach was pushed two metres further landward than normal, before the ridge
of wave-battered pebbles. There was the usual brown
seaweeds
and marine life debris including hundreds of cuttlebones.
Spurge
was in flower above the high tide
mark in the access from Ferry Road to the seashore.
29 January 2020
Adur Coastal & Intertidal 2019
