WILDLIFE
REPORTS
24
- 25 February 2010
At
low tide the usual congregation of gulls and waders
were present on the of the River Adur estuary south
of the Toll Bridge, notably scores
of Great Black-backed Gulls
and Lapwings,
with a Cormorant
high on a pole. The photograph on the right
(above) shows the gulls settling on the flooded New Monks Farm (private
land) at the northern end just west of Withy Gap.
24
February 2010
It
was the first time this year that I have felt the warmth of the sun on
my back. The air temperature reached 9.1 °C.
There were very few flying insects but I did manage to spot a Drone
Fly, Eristalis, my first hoverfly
recorded this year.
Shoreham
Weather Page
A Red
Admiral Butterfly was seen at the Sir
Robert Woodard Academy, Boundstone Lane, Lancing.
A
Red
Admiral Butterfly was spotted in my front
garden in Southwick in the afternoon.
Adur
Butterfly List 2010
13
February 2010
Hairy
Bitter Cress was seen in ample flower,
for this undistinguished plant, in the churchyard of St.
Mary de Haura in central Shoreham.
5 February
2010
A
few weak rays of sunshine were noticeable after a dreary start to the year,
and the first clumps of Snowdrops flowered
in the established self-sustaining colony under the tree cover in the wide
twitten
between Buckingham Park and Ravensbourne Avenue in north Shoreham.
One
Red Admiral Butterfly was
enjoying the afternoon sunshine in our Mill Hill garden in the afternoon.
This was the first butterfly
reports of the year.
Adur
Butterfly List 2010
1 February
2010
There
was a large range of seven metre tides measured
by WXTide at Shoreham
Harbour (Kingston Beach), from 6.9
metres high to minus
0.1 metres below Chart
Datum.
BMLSS
Tides
February
2009
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