FLOWERS
WILDLIFE
REPORTS
26
March 2018
At
the southern footpath end of the Waterworks
Road, the flowering
Cherry Plum attracted my first Peacock
Butterfly of the year and like the first
Comma
Butterfly seen a minute afterwards were
enticed out of winter hibernation by a brief spell of sunshine in the early
afternoon.
Prunus
Report
Comma
Butterfly
24
March 2018
From
about
10 am to 11 am on the River
Adur mud flats at low tide
there was a flock of twenty
Avocet between
the Railway Viaduct and Tollbridge,
quite unsettled and often taking to the air.
Pintail on Widewater
A duck
was seen on Widewater
in the afternoon. I did not recognise it immediately in poor light at the
eastern end in the middle of the lagoon, so a Pintail
is unlikely to be a regular visitor to Shoreham.
I have not recorded one before.
Pintail
SOS status: Fairly common winter visitor and scarce on observed passage;
occasionally summers and has bred.
20
March 2018
An
Avocet
is spotted on the exposed waterlogged mud of Brooklands
Boating Lake. The Avocet
is
a rare visitor to the lower Adur Valley
and local shores.
(SOS:
Scarce winter visitor and passage migrant; scarce and localised breeder.in
Sussex)
19
March 2018
Lancing
Ring Dewpond
Photograph
by Brian Spicer
flickr
The
first snow at the end of the previous month had melted and this was a fresh
flurry.
17
- 18 March 2018
A
few flurries of sleet and snow
left a thin sprinking, 75 mm at most on the flat ground in Shoreham town.
The roads and pavements were mostly not cold enough for the snow to settle.
Air temperatures were on and about freezing over the weekend, but the wind
was slight. The water and frog spawn on my small garden pond was not frozen
at all.
Shoreham
Weather 2018
15
March 2018
In
the weak sunshine I spotted my first butterfly
of the year; a Red Admiral
over Mill Hill Road at the southern end of the bridge over the A27.
A Buzzard
glided over Erringham Hill, seen in the photograph from the top meadow
of Mill Hill Nature
Reserve.
13
March 2018
The
weather
was pleasant enough to spot my first
bumblebee
of the year, a Buff-tailed Bumblebee
visited a flower shop in Lancing.
A
Kestrel
hovered over the Tamarisk at
Widewater.
7 March
2018
After
the ice had melted a Common Frog
appeared in my tiny Shoreham garden pond. A clump
of spawn was spotted.
3 March
2018
After
the very cold spell, a Common Dolphin,
Delphinus delphis, was washed ashore dead
on Worthing Beach. Another dolphin
was discovered on Western Road Beach in Lancing and a third one was found
at the beach by Heene Road in Worthing.
Difference
between a Dolphin and a Porpoise (Link)
BMLSS
Cetacea
1 March
2018
Snow
still lay on the side streets and downs in freezing temperatures throughout
the day and night.
Shoreham
Weather 2018
March
2017 Reports
Shoreham
Weather 2018
EasyTide
(Shoreham)
Shoreham
Beach Weather Station
Adur
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