EVENTS
WILDLIFE
REPORTS
28
December 2015
Daffodils
were spotted in flower on a grass verge
near Buckingham Park.
27
December 2015
Black-headed
Gulls
25
December 2015
The
only wild flowers noted were Dandelion,
Common Daisy and Nipplewort.
18
December 2015
Goose
Barnacles, Lepas
anatifera, have been washed ashore
in Dorset in the last few months and now the first strandings of the year
were found on Shoreham Beach, Sussex, left
by the recent high spring tides, washed ashore
attacked to floating objects, a small boat fender and on two bottles. The
Goose
Barnacles were probably alive when left on
the strandline with the usual wracks,
mollusc
shells, Mermaid's Purses,
cuttlebones,
etc., but died, or were dying (after ten minutes waiting for one or two
the filamentous cirri
or feeding tentacles to be seen moving), after being left high and dry
out of the water.
Goose
Barnacles are a widespread large pelagic
barnacle
found attached to objects by their long stalk or peduncle in warmer seas
than around Britain and most likely have been blown on floating objects
across the Atlantic Ocean from the seas around the south-eastern United
States of America.
BMLSS
Beachcombing
BMLSS
Barnacles
December
2014 Reports
Wild
Flowers 2015
Shoreham
Weather 2015
EasyTide
(Shoreham)
Shoreham
Beach Weather Station
Adur
Nature Notes 2013 |
