WILDLIFE
REPORTS
29
November 2006
A
Red
Admiral Butterfly was seen today in a
garden on Old Salts Farm Road, South Lancing. I may have disturbed it while
trimming some Ivy.
It
was sunny for a spell recording an air temperature of 13.3 ºC at 2:08
pm.
This may be the last butterfly of the
year?
Adur
Butterfly List 2006
About
a hundred small Goose Barnacles, Lepas
anatifera, were seen washed up attached
to a broken plastic fish box on the strandline
of Shoreham Beach (Ferry Road access)
after the recent southerly gales.
This is
the first time I have seen them washed at Shoreham in over 25 years, but
I expect they have been washed up and unrecorded before on frequent occasions.
There
were the usual millions of Slipper
Limpet shells, frequent Whelk
and Mussel shells, seaweed
and cuttlebones etc.
BMLSS
Barnacles
A young
Meadow
Pipit landed near the Beach Huts on Shoreham
Beach and then flew upward and away in its characteristic fashion.
28
November 2006
I
discovered some unusual blue-green mushrooms
in a shady lawn area of St Bernards Court, Broadwater, Worthing. They were
close to some wooden edging.
Ray
Hambett's Fungi Portfolio
These
mushrooms have been identified as fresh specimens of the Stropharia
caerulea or a similar
species in the same genus,
the first of this species recorded on these Nature
Notes pages.
Full
Report with More Images
Adur
Fungi 2006
23
November 2006
A
Sparrowhawk
perched on the fence behind the Buddleia
in our south Lancing back garden (TQ 185 046)
shortly before dusk. It remained perched for about 30 seconds before taking
off in level flight.
22
November 2006
A
flash of turquoise and a Kingfisher
flew like an arrow out of the Tamarisk in
the shallows of Widewater Lagoon.
Simultaneously
two Little Grebes dived
under water as the Kingfisher flew
over them.
21
November 2006
A handful
of Wood Blewit, Lepista nuda, mushrooms
protruded from the leaf litter (to which they were attached as decomposers)
in the Maple Spinney between the Steyning
Road and the Waterworks Road.
Adur
Fungi 2006
18
November 2006
A
large
bird of prey ("bigger than a cat") was
seen devouring a Collared Dove
in our garden (a large garden in
Downside,
near the Slonk Hill embankment, north of Buckingham
Park, Shoreham-by-Sea). My wife watched it plucking
feathers for about ten minutes, before it flew off, taking its catch with
it. A half a dozen similar observations in
the area over the last five years indicate this is almost certainly a female
Sparrowhawk.
15
November 2006
A
Water
Rail was reported to have been seen on
Widewater
when it ventured out of its hiding place under the Tamarisk and in shallow
brackish water near a small island east of the bridge. I could not see
or hear anything of this bird that must be very good at hiding in a small
area which was inaccessible because of the boggy nature of the land and
water.
13
November 2006
Four
Clouded
Yellow Butterflies and one Red
Admiral were seen on Mill Hill. One of
the
Clouded Yellows
rested on my finger. It was rather bedraggled.
A
Painted
Lady Butterfly and two Red
Admirals visited my garden in north Shoreham.
This
is the first record of a Painted Lady
in November
on these Nature Notes pages.
Report
by Trevor Wickson
Adur
Butterfly Flight Times
6 November
2006
There
was about a dozen Clouded Yellow Butterflies
seen
on Mill Hill and over the Old Erringham
pasture.
Clouded
Yellow on Dandelion
They
have been around in the same sort of numbers since 20
October 2006 and their behaviour seems
more like temporary residents than just passing through. At least two of
the butterflies engaged in courting behaviour.
Full
Butterfly Report
1 November
2006
A
chill wind from the north-west made me wish I had worn gloves. Butterflies
were predictably low with six Red Admirals
and six Clouded Yellow Butterflies
recorded. Two of the Red Admirals
fluttered together under the copse on the top of Mill
Hill. One was seen in the Butterfly Copse next to the Waterworks
Road, and another one by the closed Furnitureland warehouse on the
other (northern) side of Ham Road to the Hamm, Shoreham.
Red
Admirals will hibernate in early November
The
six Clouded Yellows
were all seen on the lower slopes of Mill
Hill. They were all bright yellow and this was the most seen together this
year. Two were sparring or being amorous.
Butterfly
List 2006
Adur
Butterfly Flight Times
Six
Common
Darters (a dragonfly)
were also recorded on Mill Hill and its approaches.
Adur
Fungi 2006
Shoreham
Weather Reports 2006
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