LINKS
WILDLIFE
REPORTS
21
January 2019
Black
Redstart 
Making
short flights on and around the carnot
wall of Shoreham
Fort, the male Black
Redstart rarely kept still for more than
a few seconds and it was very small in the viewfinder through the 500 mm
telephoto lens.
In
the early morning, those who braved below
zero temperatures were rewarded with the sight
of a Lunar
Eclipse.
4 -
20 January 2019
A
male Black Redstart
has made a prolonged visit to Shoreham
Fort, Shoreham
Beach. Sussex
Ornithological Society record
it as a rare resident, scarce passage migrant
and very scarce winter visitor.
2001
Report
14
January 2019
My
first Red Admiral Butterfly
of the year, basked on south facing white wall in Lancing during the brief
spell of sunshine at lunchtime.
Adur
Butterfly List 2019
8 January
2019
Gannet off Shoreham
Photograph
by Edward J Chitty
There
were many Gannets just after nine in
the morning between Widewater western causeway and Lancing Sailing Club,
only 20-30 metres off the beach. I could
hear them hitting the water!
In
the afternoon, I located a shoal of fish by a patrol of over twenty Cormorants
actively diving under the surface 100 metres off Widewater. They were accompanied
by even more gulls.
7 January
2019
A
company of over fifty Gannets
have been seen diving into the sea after fish off Shoreham
Beach where shoals of Herring
have been reported.
4
January 2019
Parakeet
near
Widewater
Lagoon
Photographs
by Mikey Unsted
Report
by Dawn Ayres
on
World
of Widewater
facebook
This
solitary Parakeet
visited gardens near Widewater. I am not sure if it is a visiting Ring-necked
Parakeet or an escaped captive bird?
2 January
2019
Hawkweed
Ox-tongue was my first wild flower
of the year by the cyclepath at Old Shoreham,
south of the Tollbridge.
1 January
2019
I
heard birds twittering in the trees about an
hour after midnight. But my first
mammal
of 2019 was a
Fox
trotting between the cars in Adelaide Square ten minutes later.
A raucous
cacophony of gulls
disturbed my sleep before dawn. I poked my head out into daytime 2019,
and spotted a Crow
in a bare Sycamore
tree, my first visual bird of the new year. In flight my first was the
almost inevitable Herring Gull overhead.
My first arthropod
of the year was a sleepy queen Common Wasp
that came to a light indoors.
January
2018 Reports
Shoreham
Weather 2019
EasyTide
(Shoreham)
Adur
Nature Notes 2013 |
