EVENTS
9 February
2016
"Life
Between the Tides" ANDY
HORTON, founder member of the British Marine
Life Study Society, introduced the fascinating world revealed at low
tide, how to enjoy a visit to a rocky shore,
the biology and behaviour of some of the most interesting examples of the
British fauna, concentrating on what can be discovered between the tides
on the Sussex coast. Andy is a freelance writer and photographer with a
specialist interest of the seashore around the British Isles, writing regular
monthly articles for the "Aquarist & Pondkeeper" magazine until it
ceased in 2000. He was editor of Glaucus, Shorewatch,
now replaced by the Torpedo News Bulletin, as
well as consultant for seashore books.
Worthing
Camera Club
WILDLIFE
REPORTS
29
February 2016
An
inclement month drew to a close with a brief spell of weak sunshine with
my first bumblebee
of the year, a Buff-tailed Bumblebee
visited Lesser Celandine
on a verge outside the Health Centre in Steyning. It was joined by a male
drone Honey
Bee.
24
February 2016
A
small House Spider, Eratigena
atrica, found indoors was my first
arachnid
of the year.
15
February 2016
The
first Common Frog Spawn is seen in
Lancing.
8
February 2016
Gales
blew throughout the day and for a large part of the daylight hours it was
Gale
Force
9 even reaching a steady 65.6
mph (Violent Storm Force 11)
gusting to 67.4 mph with
some very alarming sudden gusts. The wind direction was WSW but sudden
gusts could blew from other directions. These wind speeds were recorded
by the more exposed Shoreham
Beach Weather Station but even Shoreham
Met Office recorded gusts to 61 mph (Force
10). The lowest was Gale
Force 8 during the daylight.
Shoreham
Weather Reports
| SEA
STATE
Strong
Gale Force 9
High
waves; seas begins to roll; dense streaks of foam; spray may reduce visibility.
Very Rough.
Storm
Force 10
Very
high waves with overhanging crests; sea takes white appearance as foam
is blown in very dense streaks; rolling is heavy and visibility is reduced. |
 |
Windfinder
gave the maximum wave height at 5.6 metres.
At the time of the photograph it was at 5.4
metres.
4 February
2016
The
Short-eared
Owl finally made an appearance over the
saltings near New Salts Farm, swopping low over the reed beds just before
sunset. This time it outshone the male
Kestrel
perched on some telephone wires. The owl
was mobbed at time by a Herring Gull,
flushing it and making the view livelier. The flooded stream that runs
through the now fenced in open land hosted at least two Coots
and at least two Moorhens.
February
2015 Reports
Wild
Flowers 2016
Shoreham
Weather 2016
EasyTide
(Shoreham)
Shoreham
Beach Weather Station
Adur
Nature Notes 2013 |
