EVENTS
WILDLIFE
REPORTS
27
February 2014
Amorous Frogs and spawn
in Lancing
Photograph
by Ray
Hamblett
on
Wildlife
of Lancing, Sompting & Surrounds facebook
23
February 2014
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Mediterranean Gull
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Little Gull
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Slavonian
Grebe
Photographs
by Jan-Paul Charteris
on facebook
After
the storms had died down, two scarce
visitors like the Mediterranean Gull and
the Little Gull were notable sightings
at Brooklands Boating Lake, east Worthing.
The Slavonian Grebe was
a more distinctive discovery. This bird was a scarce
winter visitor and passage migrant to Sussex and was seen on the Southwick
canal part of Shoreham
Harbour.
18
February 2014
The
strandline
was littered with marine debris after the recent storms.
The
first Frog spawn
of the year was spotted in my garden pond in Shoreham.
14
February 2014
Storm
The
inclement weather returned with continual rain (not heavy) throughout the
day and a steady Gale Force
7 to Storm Force 10 in the evening. Shoreham
Beach Weather Station recorded a maximum gust of 78.8
mph (Hurricane Force 12).
The southerly wind, steady to Gale Force 10
(58.9 mph), was fluctuating with the gusts
making cycling almost impossible (and I declined this).
13
February 2014
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Daffodils
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Primroses
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Snowdrops
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After
the storms, the
sun made a brief occurrence in the early afternoon,
enough for a Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly
to awake from its diapause
and flutter around a white van at the eastern end of the High Street, Shoreham.
This
is my first butterfly in flight for 2014.
Adur
Butterfly Flight Times
Adur
Butterflies: First Dates
A dead
Lumpsucker,
Cyclopterus
lumpus,
was discovered washed up on Lancing
Beach.
Adur
Coastal Reports
BMLSS
Strandline/Beachcombing
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I
only saw one sawbill duck on Widewater. It
was a Goosander
as
confirmed by the photograph and not the more familiar Red-breasted
Merganser. |
7 February
2014
Glaucous
Gull, Larus
hyperboreus, Shoreham Beach East
Photograph
by Jan-Paul Charteris
on facebook
The
1st winter Glaucous
Gull was again at the far eastern end
of Southwick Canal round the trawlers this afternoon until 3.50
pm when it flew west. It showed down to about
two metres feeding on scraps from the 'Fish' shop. At one stage it was
grabbed by the scruff of the neck by a young Great
Black-backed Gull which then attempted
to submerge it! Earlier however it had stolen a fish from a Cormorant.
Also a Kittiwake
there and two Peregrine Falcons on the power station chimney.
January
2014 Reports
Shoreham
Weather 2014
EasyTide
(Shoreham)
Shoreham
Beach Weather Station
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Nature Notes 2012 |
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