EVENTS
2 April
2011
Friends
of
Lancing Ring
Coffee
Morning & AGM
Venue:
The Holy Family Catholic Church Hall at Monks Farmhouse in North Road,
Lancing
Time:
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lancing
Ring Slide Show (by Ray Hamblett)
WILDLIFE
REPORTS
29
March 2011
A
careful examination of the Pancalia
micro-moths on the lower slopes of Mill
Hill revealed some (17) to be the Scarce
Violet Cosmet, Pancalia
schwarzella, (ID confirmed by Tony
Davis, and the first Sussex records since
1931)
rather than the common species Violet Cosmet, Pancalia
leuwenhoekella. The latter species
has a white band on its antennae.
I
also found a nationally tiny (10 mm) scarce carabid beetle
Licinus depressus which has specially
adapted jaws to feed on snails.
25
March 2011
At
least 22 scarce Barred Tooth-stripe Moths,
Trichopteryx
polycommata, were
spotted on Privet
on Mill Hill.
Full
Report
 23
March 2011
A
half a dozen adult Wall
Lizards, Podarcis
muralis, skittered
rapidly over the south-facing flint wall of the Old Fort, Shoreham
Beach, in the weak sunshine. They were my first reptiles seen this
year.
22
March 2011
It
was my second butterfly sighting of the year
but I suspect that the Peacock Butterfly
at the footpath entrance to the Waterworks
Road by the Steyning Road was the same
one seen two days ago. A minute later a Comma
Butterfly was seen at rest on the verge
of the Waterworks Road.
With a spell of sunshine I visited Mill Hill
for the first time since January.
A Brimstone Butterfly
flew rapidly over the shorn southern part of Mill
Hill Nature Reserve and over the lower slopes before disturbing another
Peacock
Butterfly on a Sweet
Violet. The first Bee-fly
of the year was seen on the southern steps to the lower slopes covered
in abundant Sweet Violets
visited by a few Honey Bees
and occasional Peacock
and Brimstone Butterflies.
At least one faded Small Tortoiseshell
Butterfly was spotted over the slopes
cleared of Privet
by the conservation volunteers.
Adur
Butterfly List 2011
Adur
Butterfly Flight Times
20
March 2011
A
spell of brief sunshine brought a Peacock
Butterfly out of hibernation, flighty
and in good condition, my first butterfly
of the year visited Sweet Violets
on the verges of the Waterworks
Road, Old Shoreham. I also recorded my
first beetle, a very small Paederus
littoralis
seen under a plastic cap on southern bank of the Mill
Hill Cutting, with a slightly larger small spider
of the genus
Pardosa
(probably).
A few Queen Buff-tailed Bumblebees
were seen on the outskirts of Shoreham.
Adur
Butterfly List 2011
Adur
Butterflies: First Dates
Bumblebees
2011
Later,
in the early evening, I recorded by first wild fish of the year a 5-Bearded
Rockling on the kelp-covered shore by
Brooklands, west Lancing, plus my first crab, a very small Velvet
Swimming Crab.
Full
Report
A
Brimstone
Butterfly was seen on Lancing
Ring.
17
March 2011
A
Common
Seal, Phoca vitulina,
ventured up the River Adur as far as just north
of Cuckoo's Corner and rested on a sandbank. This unusual sighting occurred
in 2009
(in October) as well.
BMLSS
Seals
8 March
2011
My
first butterfly of the year was a Comma
found basking on a warm south facing fence in south Lancing.
Adur
Butterfly List 2011
Adur
Butterflies: First Dates
4/5
March 2011
The
second clump of frog spawn
of the year was noted in my tiny garden pond in Corbyn Crescent, Shoreham.
March
2010
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