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Ostensibly a sand and shingle beach, but the sea bed uncovered by the low spring tides in places has a hard bedrock and loose rocks. Surprisingly, some of the less common crabs have been discovered between the tides and two species of sea anemones reach their eastern limit up the English Channel at Lancing. One other small species of sea anemone Diadumene cincta is recorded here and only a few other places around Britain. Offshore it is a breeding area of the small orange fish known as Montagu's Sea Snail, Liparis montagui.
7
September 2006
Plump
Wheatears
flew from rock groyne to beach hut over the pebbles and the green Orache
of Lancing Beach as the tide
receded to expose rocks only seen on the equinoctial spring low tides.
4 September
2006
Two
Clouded
Yellows were seen near Lancing
Sailing Club (west end of Widewater),
the second of these two immigrant butterflies
visiting a Common Mallow
and Dandelion
in quick succession.
Butterfly
Report
A Rabbit under the beach Huts by Lancing Beach Green was seen with healthy eyes and devoid of any illness.
16
July 2006
Above
the high water mark the Large White Butterflies
were common, seen at a rate of over one a minute from Shoreham
Beach all away along to Lancing Beach Green. When I down on the shore
rockpooling
on the low tide, one Large
White Butterfly even flew past my ear.
As
it is quite often the case in
the middle of summer, the rocks were covered with a variety of seaweeds
but the life they supported was rather scanty. I was surprised to discover
two Butterfish
Pholis
gunnellus, under the rocks, most of
which were too tightly wedged down to be lifted. The prize find was the
occasional Short-legged Spider Crab, Eurynome
aspera. An
empty Netted Dogwhelk
shell was occupied by a young Hermit Crab,
Pagurus
bernhardus. There at least a handful of the tiny Hooded
Shrimp Athanas, less than a handful
of Squat Lobsters
and Edible Crabs,
not many more of the frequent Hairy Crabs
and
the frequent sea anemones Sargartia
troglodytes.
8 June
2006
By
Lancing Yacht Club the Mackerel
were jumping out of the shallow water and thousands
of very small fish from 25 mm long were stranded
all over the pebbled beach.
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May 2006
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One
day later, the junior shrimp
net was repaired with a bolt and a wing-nut
and there were over a hundred Brown Shrimps
off Lancing beach (east Widewater), a handful of South-clawed
Hermit Crabs,
Diogenes pugilator and
a colourful Little Cuttle Sepiola,
a small Sand Sole, Pegusa
lascaris and flatfish
fry. All the Hermit
Crabs were occupying Netted
Dogwhelk shells. Small shoals of twenty or
so Sand-eel fry
were seen swimming near the surface. The conditions were perfect with a
calm sea, and not too much seaweed.
Intertidal
2006
BMLSS
Prawns & Shrimps
BMLSS
Cuttlefish
30
May 2006
My
junior (metre wide) shrimp
net broke under the weight of loose mixed
seaweed off Lancing beach (east Widewater) and there were just two Brown
Shrimps and a South-clawed
Hermit Crab, Diogenes pugilator,
in
a Netted Dogwhelk
shell.
28
April 2006
Rockpooling
on Lancing Beach (by the derelict Mermaid Cafe) produced a poor showing
with nothing more than three Butterfish
Pholis
gunnellus, two Snakelocks
Anemones,
Anemonia viridis, and
the usual dozens of Hairy CrabsPilumnus
hirtellus. The sea anemone Sagartia
troglodytes was very common (over 500) on the shore.
One
of the Herring Gulls
seem to have bright orange legs but the glimpse was fleeting.
Adur
Intertidal 2006
Marine
Life of Sussex
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