EVENTS
22
March 2014
Friends
of
Lancing Ring
Coffee Morning
Venue:
The Holy Family Catholic Church Hall (=Monks Farm Presbytery) at Monks
Farmhouse in North Road, Lancing
Time:
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lancing
Ring Slide Show
WILDLIFE
REPORTS
31
March 2014
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Dog
Violets
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Sweet
Violets
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Dog
Violets were now abundant over the lower
slopes of Mill Hill with Sweet
Violets still abundant as well. Blackthorn
was flowering. A single Peacock
Butterfly fluttered over the top of the
southern part of Mill Hill.
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Violets
21
March 2014
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Green
Alkanet
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Blackthorn
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Blackthorn
was noted in flower in Old Shoreham.
14
March 2014
Frog
Tadpoles were spotted swimming around
in my garden pond in Shoreham.
13
March 2014
In
the hour of weak sunshine before the sea
fret (=fog)
rolled in, three butterflies
made an appearance on and around Mill Hill.
All had awakened from diapause
(=hibernation) and the first one seen was a Red
Admiral followed by a Small
Tortoiseshell visiting Sweet
Violets, and a Peacock
Butterfly.
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Butterfly List 2014
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Weather Report
On the
lower slopes of Mill Hill, I recorded my very first Easter
Fox Spider, Alopecosa
barbipes.
9 March
2014
I
was surprised to see an early Small White
Butterfly flutter over Dolphin Road in
Shoreham
by the railway crossing gates.
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Butterflies: First Dates
There
were lots of butterflies
at Lancing Clump: Brimstone, Small Tortoiseshell
and Peacock
in strong sunshine and little wind.
8
March 2014
A
pair of Small
Tortoiseshell Butterflies were seen in
my front garden in Lancing.
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Butterfly List 2014 |
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7 March
2014
Harbour
Porpoise
Photograph
by Louisa De-Ville on
facebook
A Harbour
Porpoise,
Phocoena phocoena, was
washed
ashore dead on Kingston Beach at the
entrance to Shoreham Harbour.
BMLSS
Cetaceans
Whales
& Porpoises in British Seas
6 March
2014
In
finally managed a positive sighting of two Purple
Sandpipers on the metal parts of the southern
wooden arm near Shoreham
Fort. I positively identified the specks
in the distance through a scope and they were clearly different from three
Turnstones
by their pale yellow legs and different bills. The Purple
Sandpiper breast is mottled whereas
in the Turnstone
it is plain white.
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Black-headed
Gull
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Wall
Lizard
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I heard
that a Peacock
Butterfly was
also seen in the weak sunshine. On the southern carnot
wall I spotted my first reptiles of the year with six Wall
Lizards,
Podarcis
muralis, basking in or near the holes in the flintwork.
4 March
2014
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Lesser
Celandine
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Hyacinth
Squill
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Cyclepath,
north of Old Shoreham
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Wild Flowers
3 March
2014
A
very large Cod
from the shore of 4.36 kg (9 lb 10 oz) caught from Shoreham
Harbour
arm, West Sussex, was exceptional in itself, but what was even more surprising
is that it had swallowed a plastic bottle. Angler Andy
Sinclair discovered the bottle after gutting
the fish at home.
BMLSS
News
February
2014 Reports
March
2013 Reports
Shoreham
Weather 2014
EasyTide
(Shoreham)
Shoreham
Beach Weather Station
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Nature Notes 2013 |
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