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LOCAL
NATURE RESERVES
EVENTS
26-27
January 2008
RSPB
Big Garden Birdwatch
WILDLIFE
REPORTS
31
January 2008
In
the early afternoon the winds were recorded at Shoreham at a steady 40
mph (Gale Force 8) gusting to 55 mph and 60 mph (Storm Force 10).
No damage was seen in Shoreham town.
Adur
Weather Page
Met
Office Shoreham Weather
Beaufort
Scale
28
January 2008
The
cattle
were now seen from the Adur
Levels on the richer floristic middle zone of Mill
Hill, where they will do more damage.
22
January 2008
The
cattle
were still on Mill
Hill dumping their excrement all over the long grass south of the Reservoir,
but also on the recovering herb-rich plateau north of the Reservoir. Cattle
cause great damage by disturbance of the soil and nutrification with their
urine and faeces. A dog
was seen in panic in the presence of the cattle.
21
January 2008
Timber
from Greek-registered Ice Prince,
which sank about 26 miles (42 km) off Dorset after a storm on 15
January 2008, began getting washed up on Lancing
beach in the evening of 19 January 2008
and
tonnes of pine planks littered the
local
beaches from 20 January 2008. The
usual debris was on the strandline
including a Ray's, Raja sp.,
eggcase illustrated above. It measured
67 mm long so this was probably the eggcase of an Undulate
Ray, Raja undulata.
BMLSS
Marine Wildlife News (Winter 2008)
BMLSS
Eggcases
Adur
Coastal 2008
20
January 2008
Tree
Planting event with Friends of Lancing
Ring
Slide
Show of Pictures (by Ray Hamblett)
Lancing
Ring Blogspot
16
January 2008
A
large dead Lobster. Homaris
gammurus, and five small Dogfish,Scyliorhinus
canicula, were washed up on Southwick
Beach after the recent storms.
Report
by Peter Talbot-Elsden
At
least a hundred Herring Gulls
(with over 90% adult gulls) paddled for worms after the recent rain, on
the greens adjoining Middle Road, Shoreham
and Shoreham Grammar School playing fields.
My
first spider and
my first moving arthropod
of 2008 was a
small black web-spinner in the rear smoking part of the Ship Inn, Southwick,
and this was possibly Zygiellax-notata.
13
January 2008
A
Little
Grebe dived in a choppy River
Adur near the Railway
Viaduct on a high spring tide
swollen by the recent rain.
11
January 2008
The usual
debris was washed up on the strandline
of Shoreham beach
with Whelk
egg cases, cuttlebones,
Slipper
Limpets,
Dogfish
egg cases and wrecked fishing pots
with keelworms
and tiny juvenile scallop
shells. Some of the Acorn
Barnacles were still alive and these
would be my first wild arthropods/crustaceans
recorded in 2008.
7 January
2008
A
Red-breasted
Merganser dived in the shallow channel
of water in the River Adur
at low tide on the estuarine
side of the overflow pond (west of Adur Recreation Ground) by the houseboats.
6 January
2008
Bumblebees
were active on the Gorse
bushes of Lancing
Ring, probably male Buff-tailed Bumblebee,
Bombus
terrestris, showing the whitish tails
and two yellow bars. I counted four individuals there was almost certainly
more.
5
January 2008
There
was a few Teals,
perhaps as many as five birds, in the River
Adur at low tide
on the estuarine
side of the overflow pond (west of Adur Recreation Ground) by the houseboats.
4 January
2008
Unfortunately
the cattle
are still trashing the top of Mill
Hill in an asinine plan by the South Downs
Conservation Board on an important Nature
Reserve. The flat area being grazed (seen from the Adur Levels) is
an area that contains a recovering low fertility wildlife
meadow flora including Horseshoe Vetch, Hippocrepis
comosa, and many other important caterpillar food plants and nectar
plants. The cattle indiscriminately eat the
flora, but more importantly the destruction occurs because of the ground
disturbance they cause and their patterns of urination and cow pats which
are making the paths impassable on shallow chalk soil in wet muddy conditions.
Chalkhill
herbs require low fertility undisturbed land
and are wiped out (most of them permanently) if the conditions change.
Adur
Butterfly List 2008
List
of Butterfly Articles
1 January
2008
The
first bird of 2008
seen was an adult Herring Gull
flying over Corbyn Crescent just outside my front garden. The first wild
mammal was a Rabbit
on the lower slopes of Mill
Hill. The first wild
flower was a Greater Periwinkle
by the road to Mill Hill, but the habitat was more like a wild front garden.
The
first mushroom was
a Blewits, Lepista sordida,
recorded from the ridge of Mill Hill.
Adur
Fungi Reports 2008
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