WILDLIFE
REPORTS
24
June 2020
Poplar Hawk-moth at Old
Shoreham
Photograph
by Andy Berry
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Adur
Moths 2020
Adur
Hawk-moths
Common
Spotted Orchid
It
was getting seriously too warm and even the wild
flowers were beginning to wilt after the
long dry spell.
It
was the warmest day of the year with
the highest air temperature recorded by Met
Office (Shoreham) of 29.0
°C at
3:00
pm. Accuweather
recorded 30.0
°C (This
could be the second highest temperature
this century?)
Shoreham
Weather 2020
20
June 2020
Common Seal
Photograph
by Mary Lawrenson
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A young
Common
Seal rested an the River
Adur mud at low tide
in the morning in the middle of town. In the afternoon it was seen upriver
near Cuckoo's Corner.
16
June 2020
I
visited Lady Bee Marina, Shoreham Harbour, where
a easily spotted shoals of juvenile Grey
Mullet, Sand Smelt
and Bass
in the shallows. The Grey Mullet
shoals consisted of several hundred fish.
Mid-June
2020
Adder
out in the open in the morning on Southwick Hill
Photograph
by Sharon Vanda Watts
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11
June 2020
Red-footed
Falcon
Photograph
by Jeff Curnick
A vagrant
Red-footed
Falcon,
Falco
vespertinus, was spotted on Beeding
Hill.
9
June 2020
A
scarce Four-lined Horsefly, Atylotus
rusticus, visited
the dominant Ox-eye Daisies
on the verge of the Downs Link Path, south
of the Cement Works (dis).
Illustrated
Fly Report
8
June 2020
Two
Swifts
swivelled and dived over the middle slopes of Mill
Hill.
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Common
Broomrapes
The
small
Common Broomrapes seen
in Frampton's Field yesterday were so faraway I returned
with a long lens, but I still found them difficult to focus on amongst
the ungrazed vegetation. On the southern bank of the Mill
Hill Cutting I trampled some Cotoneaster,
and found hundreds more Common Spotted
Orchids.
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Common
Spotted Orchids
7 June
2020
Wild
flowers are being seem for the first time
this year more than can be listed but there is notable mention of about
two hundred Knapweed Broomrapes
on the southern part of Mill Hill.
Common
Spotted Orchids, Greater Knapweed
Southern
Marsh Orchid
On
a cloudy day,
Musk
Mallow and
Southern Marsh Orchid were seen for the
first time this year. Common Broomrape
was seen for the first time for several years, at the top of Frampton's
Field. A hundred plus Common Spotted Orchids
were
seen on the southern bank of the
Mill Hill
Cutting.
Wild
Flower Report
Adur
Orchids
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2
June 2020
The
first Large Skipper
of the year was spotted on the middle slopes of Mill
Hill.
This
skipper
is scarce in the wild habitats around Shoreham. Only a few are seen on
Mill
Hill each year.
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1 June
2020
Stag Beetle
Sompting
Photograph
by June Bratton
LINKS
Adur
2019 Reports
June
2019 Reports
Shoreham
Weather 2020
EasyTide
(Shoreham)
Adur
Nature Notes 2013 |
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