WILDLIFE
REPORTS
30
March 2022
Chestnuts
Buckingham
Park
26
March 2022
·An
Avocet
this morning visited the Adur at 10.45 am
a bit south of the Toll
Bridge. It wasn't doing much apart from
paractising standing on one leg!
25
March 2022
Blackthorn
near
Slonk Hill Farm
A Robin
called stridently from the top of a prominent bush on the middle slopes
of Mill Hill, and his potential
partner replied from a hidden location amongst the scrub. In difficult
viewing conditions another small bird replaced the Robin
in the same small tree and this was an immigrant Chiff-chaff.
A few white flowers on thorn
bushes were the slow start of the Blackthorn,
the green leaves on the bushes were the Hawthorn.
24
March 2022
It
was pleasant as the afternoon sun cast long shadows under a clear blue
sky. 16°C.
Pussy
Willow
The
post-equinoctial flora
graced us with clumps of Cowslips
on the verges of the Downs Link from Old
Shoreham to the old Cement Works. Pussy
Willow was now prominent as part of the
hedgerows.
23
March 2022
Six
separate large bright yellow Brimstone
Butterflies were my first of the year
welcome sight fluttering strongly over north Shoreham
on the urban side of the
A27 By-pass
in the weak sunshine under a bright blue sky. Hawthorn was in leaf.
On
my first visit to the lower slopes of Mill
Hill in 2022,
Peacock
Butterflies were sparring with a Small
Tortoiseshell, and Sweet
Violets were sparsely scattered mostly
on the steeper slopes above the winding path. By the southern steps, the
first Blackthorn
flowers had just appeared.
22
March 2022
Peacock
Butterfly
A Peacock
Butterfly and a Small
Tortoiseshell were attracted to a small
Pussy
Willow
tree
with its catkins on the road verge on the east side of Erringham Gap.
The sun shined pleasantly under a blue sky. 14°C.
Pussy
Willow Gallery
Adur
Trees 2022
21
March 2022
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Ringed Plover on
Widewater
18
March 2022
At
last, my first butterfly of the year,
a distant Peacock Butterfly visited
a
flowering
Cherry Plum at the southern end of the
Waterworks
Road.
10
March 2022
I
spotted my first hoverfly
of 2022, an Eristalis
on the Waterworks
Road.
7 March
2022
Under
a blue sky with a chill breeze from
the east, five Little Egrets
waded in the shallows on an afternoon high tide
south-east of the Toll
Bridge.
Mistletoe
in Buckingham
Park
Photograph
by
Helen Swyer
Woodland
Trust (Mistletoe)
1 March
2022
I
discovered my first batch of frog spawn
in
my garden pond in Eastern Avenue, Shoreham in the morning.
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Redshank
Reports
have been omitted and truncated because of a serious illness
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