WILDLIFE
REPORTS
25
December 2019
Herb
Robert was still in flower
in my wild Shoreham front garden. The weather
was dry.
21
December 2019
Great Black-backed Gull
with an eel what it just stolen from a Cormorant
Report
and Photographs by Istvan
Radi
Wildlife
& Conservation of Lancing, Sompting & Surrounds
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A Great
Black-backed Gull struggled with an
eel on the mud of
the River Adur by the
Toll
Bridge at Old Shoreham. The gull had previously stolen the eel
from
a Cormorant, and only managed to swallow it at the second attempt.
17
December 2019
On
a misty early afternoon the first spots of rain were felt as the high tide
at 5.8 metres (measured at Shoreham Harbour)
covered the mud flats but not the vegetation
north of the Toll Bridge at Old Shoreham.
This enabled a few Lapwings
to land. From the freshly chalk covered river bank north of the Flyover
I spotted the dart like flight of a Kingfisher
low over the estuary. This deposited chalk
obscured to a depth of 30 cm the only known local flowering
area of the small white variant of Common
Centaury.
LINKS
December
2018 Reports
Shoreham
Weather 2019
EasyTide
(Shoreham)
Adur
Nature Notes 2013 |
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