WILDLIFE
REPORTS
31
January 2007
On
the wildlife road verge near Ladywell's to the north of Cuckoo's
Corner on the Coombes Road, I spotted
a yellow buttercup-like flower which
turned out as expected to be my first
Lesser
Celandine flower of the year. There appeared
to be Mole Hills
of dark brown earth on the western Adur towpath between the A27
Flyover and Cuckoo's Corner.
24
January 2007
South-east
England woke after an overnight flurry
of snow and Shoreham was no exception
with a layer in Shoreham town and even on the
beach
pebbles and in the countryside.
As
the air temperature was always above freezing and the dew point only just
below zero Celsius, so by the early afternoon almost all the snow had melted
in town with only a light covering visible on the downs.
Shoreham
Weather Highlights 2007
22
January 2007
A
pair of Peregrine Falcons
appeared from behind the Shoreham Harbour Power Station chimney in
Southwick
at 11:00 am.
At least one of the falcons flew out at least three times during the next
hour.
19
January 2007
At
least three out of over a dozen noticeably brownish-red Grey
Squirrels
scampered around the gravestones of St. Mary de Haura Churchyard, New
Shoreham,
in a hazy afternoon temperate 12.3 ºC
with a Gentle Breeze (Force
3) blowing from the SSW.
18
January 2007
The
whole of England was battered
by gales and storms. A sustained Strong Gale (Force
9) at 49 mph gusting to 55 mph (Force
10) occured just after midday
with the heaviest gust in the morning at 8:20
am recorded at 66 mph (Force
11).
Shoreham
Weather Highlights 2007
15
January 2007
I
took a walk across the fields to the west of Shoreham Airport (New
Monks Farm) in the afternoon in the glorious winter sunshine and managed
to get a reasonable photograph
of a beautiful Short-eared Owl
doing the rounds along the drainage ditches. I also caught sight of one
of the Barn Owls
hunting close to the airport.
Excellent
Photograph
15
January 2007
There
are appear to be a handful of Mole Hills
of grey chalky earth on Mill Hill south
of the Reservoir. They are 50 cm in diameter which I thought was too large.
Huddled
close together on the edge of the mud and water between Old Shoreham Toll
Bridge and the Railway Viaduct about
a hundred Ringed Plovers
all faced west and had their grey backs to me viewing from the east bank
of the Adur estuary. A black
Brent Goose swam in mid-stream at low
tide.
Full
Report
14
January 2007
The
laughing call of the Great Spotted Woodpecker
was heard at the top of Buckingham Park, Shoreham.
Report
by Ken Bishop
A
couple of large unidentified raptors (Birds
of Prey) were spotted soaring over Lancing
Ring about 11:30 am.
One bird had a pale body and completely dark underwings.
12
January 2007
My
first mushrooms seen this year were a small
brown unidentified species growing on the wood chips in the shrub beds
of McDonalds, Eastern Avenue, Shoreham.
Adur
Fungi Reports 2007
11
January 2007
A
Strong Gale (Force 9) blew at 12:20
pm from SSW gusting to Storm (Force 10). 60
mph, at 11:42 am
but the air temperature was high for the time of year from 9.0 ºC
at midnight to
11.6 ºC at midday.
The wind lessened as the afternon wore on.
Shoreham
Weather Highlights 2007
10
January 2007
Common
Newts returned to our garden pond in north
Shoreham (Mill Hill Drive). These were the
first amphibians reported this year.
My
first bumblebee of the year was a Queen
Buff-tailed
Bumblebee seen flying away from some vegetation
over Frampton's Field, Old Shoreham, at the southern end near the
Butterfly Copse leading to the Waterworks
Road.
6 January
2007
The
smaller male Peregrine Falcon
was seen on the north side of Shoreham Harbour Power Station chimney in
Southwick
at 10:00 am.
Report
by Peter Talbot-Elsden
4
January 2007
At
around midday at Lancing railway station a Red
Admiral Butterfly fluttered around the
sunlit south facing wall before coming to rest on a notice board which
had the heading "Welcome to Lancing"!
Full
Report and Photograph
Adur
Butterfly List 2007
Adur
Butterfly Flight Times (New File)
Adur
Butterfly First Flight Times
1 January
2007
The
first birds of the year heard were House
Sparrows in Corbyn Crescent, Shoreham,
but the first bird seen was a Pied Wagtail
on
a telephone wire, followed by a hundred
Starlings
and a hundred Herring Gulls in
Shoreham town in the first hour. The first wild
mammal seen in 2007 was a Grey Squirrel
in St. Mary's Churchyard, Shoreham.
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