EVENTS
WILDLIFE
REPORTS
27
November 2013
A
most unexpected discovery was a Small Tortoiseshell
Butterfly asleep on my bedroom wall. Without
my spectacles on I thought it must have been a spider
and I gave it a nudge. Sleepily, I cupped it in my hand as I did not recognise
it as a butterfly
at first. It was after I recognised what it was, I took the butterfly to
my small empty plastic aquarium tank in my bathroom. Then the butterfly
came to life and flew around the light bulb. I caught it again and by midday
the butterfly is resting with its wings closed in the small aquarium. It
looked worn but it did not appear to have any obvious damage.
Adur
Butterfly List 2013
Diapause
(=hibernation)
18
November 2013
On
a high tide, the twenty or so Turnstones
sheltered
on the strandline a few metres above the gently
lapping sea where about a dozen Sanderlings
also congregated. |
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7 November
2013
There
were over a hundred birds (excluding gulls) on the River
Adur estuary
at high tide between the Norfolk
Bridge and the Adur Ferry Bridge.
They will too far away to see clearly but I think there was a flock of
twenty Pochards,
plus waders including Turnstones,
Grey
Plovers and possible Godwits.
A small
Wheatear
was clearly seen by its white rump flying from the seaweed covered strandline
to the western harbour wall, Shoreham Beach.
5 November
2013
A
dead Porpoise
was washed up on Southwick Beach by Carats
Cafe.
4
November 2013
Two
male Kestrels
aerially sparred for over five minutes over Mill
Hill against the backdrop of a blue sky. Eventually, one of splendidly
coloured Kestrels
flew away to the west, whilst the first one seen resumed hovering over
the down south of the Reservoir.
On
the lower slopes of Mill Hill, two Clouded
Yellow Butterflies appeared to be courting,
and there was a third seen.
Butterfly
Report
1 November
2013
One
of the three Cormorants
on the artificial island in Widewater
played with a flatfish
which was two large for it to swallow whilst two other Cormorants
and at least two Little Grebes
were seen diving under the surface of the lagoon. Three Little
Egrets stalked in the margins.
November
2012 Reports
Shoreham
Weather 2013
Adur
Nature Notes 2012 |
