EVENTS
6 April
2013
Friends
of
Lancing Ring
Coffee Morning
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
WILDLIFE
REPORTS
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20
March 2013
A
few flowers of Lesser
Celandine were spotted on the western
verge of the Steyning Road just north of the last house in Old Shoreham.
19
March 2013
Coltsfoot
(illustrated on the left)
is often the first sign of colour in spring. A very small specimen flowered
on the eastern shore underneath the Railway
Viaduct. Dandelions
were also flowering on verges. |
16
March 2013
The
fields between Worthing and Sompting are wetter than we've ever seen them
and the livestock are helping to make it into an interesting wetland. This
morning's haul of Heron,
6+ Moorhens,
two Little Egrets
and nine Mallards
was pretty standard fare, but the discovery of two Water
Rails was a new bird for the house list.
Checking on them this afternoon (both still there) we also added four Teal
to
the list as well. At least six Chiffchaffs
intensively feeding brought a hint of spring.
14
March 2013
In
town
almost all the snow
had melted but on a very muddy Mill
Hill there were still foot high (30 cm)
drifts and running meltwater. The Sweet
Violets had been flattened by the load
of snow on top
of them.
Adur
Violets
12
March 2013
In
the afternoon one Snipe
flew over the road by the Norfolk
Bridge and another was feeding on a verge
beside Shoreham Airport.
An
Avocet
was seen roosting with the more usual waders on Adur Saltings but flew
off before high tide in the morning.
The
snow
slowly melted during the day but not all of it, and the melted snow
froze making some shady areas perilously slippery. Gusts of wind blew the
powdery snow around and this effect could be seen at a distance, e.g. on
Mill
Hill from Shoreham
Beach.
11
March 2013
5
cm of snow
fell after dark but it stopped before midnight.
Shoreham
Weather 2013
6 March
2013
The
first Frog Spawn of the year was
discovered in a small Shoreham pond
Photograph
by Sue Wright
A dead
Frog
was seen in Corbyn Crescent, Shoreham.
5 March
2013
A
juvenile Common Seal, Phoca
vitulina,
hauled up on a River Adur
mud bank two miles inland from Shoreham-by-Sea.
4
March 2013
I
spotted by first reptile of the year: a single sandy coloured Wall
Lizard,
Podarcis
muralis, skittered
over the south facing wall of the Old
Fort, Shoreham Beach.
1 March
2013
Daffodils
were in flower on St David's Day in Church Lane, Steyning.
March
2012 Reports
Shoreham
Weather 2013
Adur
Nature Notes 2012 |
