FEATURES
Jackdaw
at Old Shoreham
Compared
with other corvids, the Jackdaw
spends more time exploring and turning over objects with its bill; it also
has a straighter and less downturned bill and increased binocular vision
which are advantageous for this foraging strategy. Ref.
WILDLIFE
REPORTS
30
March 2019
I
stopped in at Mill
Hill and managed to find a Grizzled
Skipper, the first of the year reported
in Sussex.
Adur
Skippers
Marsh
Marigold with a small
hoverfly
Platycheirus
29
March 2019
Blackthorn
was in flower and Hawthorn was
in leaf at Cuckoo's Corner on the Coombes Road.
Adur
Trees & Shrubs 2019
28 March
2019
My first
reptiles
of the year were 14 Wall Lizards,
Podarcis
muralis,
on and around the carnot
wall of Shoreham
Fort in the intermittent sunshine.
25
March 2019
A
Common
Bee-fly visited the first few Cowslips
on the the verges of the Downs Link Cyclepath
south of the Cement Works. False Oxlip
was also present in one clump. Blackthorn
was in flower.
23
March 2019
A
Common
Seal was spotted on the shingle beach
at Southwick.
22
March 2019
Peacock
Butterfly
It
was too cool (9.2 °C) for a Peacock
Butterfly to open its wings naturally
as it was discovered with it wings firmly closed in the gutter of Buckingham
Road, Shoreham, in the late afternoon. It was likely enticed from hibernation
into a brief flight earlier to enable me to record my first butterfly
of the year.
20
March 2019
A
Brimstone
Butterfly was seen by the River
Adur.
Report
by Tracy
Adur
Butterflies 2019
19
March 2019
Fungus
on a tree stump
with
Lesser
Celandine
A large
white mass was highly incongruous growing from a dead tree stump at the
northern end of Mill Hill Drive, north Shoreham. From a distance it looked
more like white paper debris; it was only when I got closer I realised
it was a living organism and when identified it will probably be one of
the common bracket fungi
that grow on dead tree stumps. On closer inspection
and it did not look like the normal bracket fungi that is frequently seen
on stumps.
Mid-March
2019
Inclement
weather:
rain, gales and poor light curtailed reports for a fortnight in the middle
of the month.
1 March
2019
Goldfinch,
Grey
Heron
Mallards,
Grey
Heron, Redshank
Old
Shoreham to the Cement Works
A Grey
Heron showed
plus three pairs of Mallards
on
the River Adur on a low tide
by the Cement Works. The young Redshank
was
one of two actively feeding by the
Tollbridge
at Old Shoreham, but there were only gulls
and no Lapwings
on the exposed mud banks. The Goldfinch
was solitary and singing for a mate on the edge of the Downs Link Cyclepath
near the Erringham Gap, north of the Flyover.
March
2018 Reports
LINKS
Shoreham
Weather 2019
EasyTide
(Shoreham)
Adur
Nature Notes 2013 |
