| EVENTS
7 January
2008
Wildlife of the
South Downs
A presentation and discussion
Illustrated talk by Andy
Horton
Explore
the south downs above the Adur Valley through the eyes of wildlife writer
and photographer Andy Horton, a native Shoreham resident. The chalk downs
are noted for their flowering herbs and the famous butterfly sites at Anchor
Bottom and Mill Hill.
Venue:
Beeding and Bramber Village Hall which is in Upper Beeding High Street.
WILDLIFE
REPORTS
28
January 2009
An
Iceland
Gull, Larus
glaucoides, was seen at 8:50
am on Southwick
Beach just west of the power station. It was a large individual with
a pretty large bill. It was seen again by Carat's
Cafe at 10:00
am.
Iceland
Gull Sussex Records
20/21
January 2009
Foxes
were both energetic bold and two particularly were noted nearing midnight,
one at Kingston Buci leaping over a wall into the school grounds, and another
in Middle Road, Shoreham, in healthy condition and distinct under the street
lamps.
Urban
Reports 2009
19
& 20 January 2009
Two
pairs of Red-breasted Mergansers
dived underneath the surface of Widewater Lagoon.
The
first major flowering fruits of fungi of the year was a clump of Honey
Fungus seen on a stump in Southwick Recreation
Ground.
19
January 2009
It
was interesting to note a Stonechat,
Saxicola
torquata, flitting to a fro over the
Adur
fringes at the southern end of the
Footbridge.
It alternatively flew from a bush on the edge of the river to the concrete
side of the bridge, with occasionally forays landing on the Sea
Purslane at low tide. |
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18
January 2009
There
were a couple of Oystercatchers
on the river's edge north of the Railway
Viaduct at high tide.
Adur
Estuary Reports 2009
15
January 2009
In
the bushes adjacent to the Coastal Link Cyclepath between Old Shoreham
Toll
Bridge and Ropetackle I observed a few
of the omnipresent Pied Wagtails,
a small flock of Long-tailed Tits flitting
from shrub to bare tree, and a handful of Meadow
Pipits.
10
January 2009
The
air temperature recorded in Shoreham at 7:00
am at minus 7.3 °C was the lowest
this millennium.
There
was a considerable amount of feathery Hoar
Frost in the morning. The 'feathery' variety
forms when the surface temperature reaches freezing point before dew begins
to form on it.
Shoreham
Weather (Met Office)
Adur
Weather 2009
Mute
Swans showing the depth of the Ice on Widewater
Photograph
by David Wood
Widewater
Lagoon froze over, with the ice thick enough to support the weight
of a Mute Swan.
Report
by Gordon Croucher (Lancing Parish Council)
7
January 2009
The
air temperature recorded in Shoreham at 4:00
am at minus 6.9 °C was the lowest
this millennium.
6 January
2009
The
air temperature recorded in Shoreham at 8:00
am at minus 5.7 °C was the lowest
this millennium.
Shoreham
Weather (Met Office)
5 January
2009
A
flurry of snow
fell over night and left a thin layer in the early morning. It had all
melted in town by midday.
3 January
2009
Our
first moth of 2009
was, unexpectedly, a Double-striped Pug,
Gymnoscelis
rufifasciata, that we found in our
kitchen (Mill Hill, Shoreham).
The
first bird of prey of the year was a Sparrowhawk
swooping between the houses in Buckingham Road south of the Mill Lane junction.
Urban
Reports 2009
2 January
2009
A
Rabbit
on
the lower slopes of Mill Hill was my first
wild mammal of 2009.
A few still flowering Sow Thistles by
the most southerly cattle grid on Mill Hill Road were the only wild flowers
on the day and the first recorded in the year.
The first fungi were a clump of the miniature
white
Clavulina
in the Maple
Spinney next to the Waterworks
Road (southern end). Later
a Fox was
seen after dark in Middle Street, Shoreham.
Adur
Levels Reports 2009
1 January
2009
My
first bird of the year seen was an unidentified gull, probably a Herring
Gull on the roof opposite my window in
Corbyn Crescent, the residential part of Shoreham-by-Sea,
followed by a handful of Starlings,
and looking out over the back garden, a small flock of House
Sparrows congregated in the high shrubbery.
Adur
Nature Notes December 2008 Reports |
