EVENTS
WILDLIFE
REPORTS
27
January 2015
Little
Grebe
A Little
Grebe dived under the River
Adur by Little Norfolk
Bridge in mid-stream (branch to the Flood Arches) by the housboats
on a high spring tide. A pair of Teals
cruised on the surface. A Kingfisher was
spotted from the same spot by the bridge flying into the trees on the river
bank to the west of the flooded river.
22
January 2015
Barrel
Jellyfish, Rhizostoma octopus
Photograph
by Margaret
Burton
Two
large Barrel Jellyfish, Rhizostoma
octopus, were discovered washed up
on the shore at Lancing.
18
January 2015
Red-breasted
Merganser
(drake)
Eventually,
I arrived at Widewater when there were four
pairs of Red-breasted
Mergansers
far
out on the surface of the lagoon and frequently diving under in the fading
light of the late afternoon. The sawbills
did not seem to catch any fish and when it surfaced half the birds had
weed in their beaks. Redshanks
are
now regular seen in the shallows of the lagoon, and there were at least
two and a Shelduck,
with a score or so mostly Black-headed
Gulls with a smattering
of immature Herring Gulls.
On
the narrow strandline there was the usual collection
of seaweeds
and other organic debris and lignite.
16
January 2015
A
Purple
Sandpiper made a visit to Widewater
Lagoon on a calm day.
Five
Mute
Swans cruised in the still waters at the
entrance of Shoreham Harbour viewed from Kingston
Buci Beach. One swan
seemed to be exceptionally aggressive, but the target swan
did not seem to unduly intimidated.
Four
Red-breasted
Mergansers
descended
on to River Adur
next to Shoreham Airport on the opposite bank
an hour after low tide.
12
January 2015
A
Goosander
made a visit to Widewater Lagoon in the rain
and gales.
10
- 11 January 2015
A
Common
Scoter was reported and photographed
on Widewater Lagoon, south Lancing.
10
January 2015
Oystercatchers
A gale
was blowing from the south as at least four Oystercatchers
fed on or around the mussels on the beds south
of the Railway Viaduct on an incoming
tide.
A Greater Black-backed Gull had discovered
a a very long skeleton.
Greater Black-backed Gull
9 January
2015
A
Common
Seal was spotted on the bank of the River
Adur still there now between the A27
Flyover and the Toll Bridge.
4 January
2015
First
butterfly
seen of the new year? It was seen at the Cat
and Canary Pub Downslink car park, Henfield,
a Peacock
fluttering around the parked cars.
I
recorded my first wild flower of the
year, a Lesser Celandine
in Southwick, previously seen last year on Christmas
Day 2014.
Coot on Widewater
1 January
2015
The
New Year was heralded in by cold (6.5 °C
at midnight)
and dry weather. The wind rose to a constant Force
5 during the day.
The
first bird seen in 2015
was a Herring Gull swooping
over the roof tops, followed by a Redshank
by the Surry Public Hard, and a Shelduck
near the Railway Viaduct.
January
2014 Reports
Wild
Flowers 2016
Shoreham
Weather 2015
EasyTide
(Shoreham)
Shoreham
Beach Weather Station
Adur
Nature Notes 2013 |
