WILDLIFE
REPORTS
29
June 2021
Kingfisher
at Widewater
Photograph
by Suzy
Capey
28
June 2021
Marbled
White Butterflies were very lively over
the lower slopes of Mill Hill where I also
spotted my first Small Skipper
of the year. New flowers appeared on
a cloudy humid afternoon. Small Heath Butterflies,
pristine Red Admirals,
large Meadow Browns,
a Silver Y Moth
and a 6-spotted Burnet Moth
were noted as the first spots of rain were felt.
Yellow
Wort, Knapweed
Broomrape, 6-spotted
Burnet Moth on Dropwort
Greater
Knapweed, Great Green Bush Cricket
Mill
Hill
A
Great Green Bush Cricket, Tettigonia
viridissima, was spotted on the southern top part of Mill
Hill for the first time.
Adur
Crickets and Grasshoppers
Full
Report
Common
Spotted Orchids
Scores
of Common Spotted Orchids
were in flower on the southern bank of Mill
Hill Cutting.
Adur
Orchids
24
June 2021
Common
Spotted Orchid, Ringlet Butterfly,
Pyramidal
Orchid
Downs
Link
My
first Ringlet Butterfly
of the year fluttered around the early post Summer Solstice flowers
over the verge of the Downs Link south
of the Cement Works.
23
June 2021
Dolphins
were
spotted playing in the wake of a yacht off Lancing.
Video
Report
21
June 2021
An
Oceanic
Sunfish Mola mola,
was reported
from Rampion Windfarm,
Video
Report
17
June 2021
My
first fish seen this year were a shoal of twenty
adult Grey Mullet
in the shallows off Ropetackle as the tide came
in.
14
June 2021
The
first of the year Meadow Brown Butterflies
fluttered
in the sunshine amongst the long grasses and
Ox-eyeDaisies
on the bank between the River
Adur towpath and Shoreham
Airport.
11
June 2021
8 June
2021
A
Buzzard
soared over a sunny (19°C)
Mill
Hill in the early afternoon.
1 June
2021
Thrift,
Tree Mallow, Yellow-horned
Poppy
Sea
Kale, Cat's Ear
Starry
Clover
Shoreham
Beach, Old Fort area
Reports
have been omitted and truncated because of a serious illness
For
new reports go to
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Valley & Downs facebook
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Birding facebook
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& Conservation of Lancing, Sompting & Surrounds facebook
Sussex
Ornithological Society Sightings
June
2020 Reports
LINKS
Adur
2019 Reports
Shoreham
Weather 2020
EasyTide
(Shoreham)
Adur
Nature Notes 2013 |
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