EVENTS
WILDLIFE
REPORTS
29
January 2017
RSPB
Birdwatch
An
adult Herring Gull
just landed in my postage stamp sized front garden in the rain.
24
January 2017
In
the early hours after midnight I heard a Fox
calling in Corbyn Crescent, Shoreham. It sounded like an Alarm
Bark.
Fox
Calls
17
January 2017
A
flock of over fifty Feral Pigeons
continually wheeled to and fro over the Adur
Ferry Bridge and River
Adur. I had not noticed such a large flock
before.
11
January 2017
A
Red
Admiral Butterfly emerged from hibernation
in a Lancing conservatory.
Adur
Butterfly List 2017
6 January
2017
A Little Egret feeding
at low tide at Old Shoreham
In
fading light and a low tide in the afternoon and
the annual bird count was added to by a handful of Greater
Black-backed Gulls resting on the mud
banks and a couple of Lapwings
in flight over the lowland horse pasture.
5 January
2017
Black-headed
Gulls
A pair
of Mute Swans
swam at low tide, seen from the Ferry
Bridge at dusk
(Nautical Twilight).
3 January
2017
A distinct
chill in the air and ice in the shallow puddles in the early afternoon
trip to the Adur
Flyover on the eastern bank of the River
Adur, added the following firsts of the
year in birdlife: Pied Wagtail, Crow,
Starlings,
Wood
Pigeons, Feral Pigeons,
a splendid Kingfisher
flying
above the hedge (its orange breast feathers
more clearly seen than its
sapphire wings),
a few Blackbirds
and querulous
Robins.
2 January
2017
A
pair of Magpies
in the bare trees in Corbyn Crescent were the first corvids
and non-gull birds of the year, with a flock of a dozen plus House
Sparrows in Dolphin Road. As a leftover
from last year, an alien Oxford Ragwort
was just about showing a flower by the
railway tracks at Eastern Avenue, Shoreham.
1 January
2017
A
Red Fox
trotting across Southwick Green in the early hours was my first wild mammal
seen this year. As usual the first bird of the year was an adult Herring
Gull gliding over the roof tops in Corbyn
Crescent in the late morning.
January
2016 Reports
Wild
Flowers 2017
Shoreham
Weather 2017
EasyTide
(Shoreham)
Shoreham
Beach Weather Station
Adur
Nature Notes 2013 |
