EVENTS
WILDLIFE
REPORTS
29
November 2014
Lapwings
28
November 2014
Along
the River Adur
at mid-tide between the Railway
Viaduct and the Toll Bridge along
with the usual amazing collection of gulls
I spotted two Curlew,
a Shelduck, many
Lapwings,
Oystercatchers,
Redshanks
a beautiful Kingfisher,
three Cormorants all
fishing in about 25 cm of water with an Little
Egret following them excitedly, and the
first for me in Shoreham: an Avocet.
27
November 2014
It
was very muddy when taking these shots on the verges of the cyclepath,
near the Toll Bridge, Old Shoreham.
Fungi
of the Adur District
24
November 2014
Kestrel
at
Widewater
Photographs
by Gary Levett
A
Kestrel
was seen taking a bath at Widewater
after a particularly bloody meal of a small Vole.
18
November 2014
A
larger than usually seen flock of about a thousand Starlings
were spotted over Holmbush an hour before dusk.
15
November 2014
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Great
Black-backed Gull
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Two
Great
Black-backed Gulls were unusually near
the shore on the mud flats north of the Toll
Bridge. A closer look and one of these
large gulls was playing with a Flounder
almost as long as the bird. It seemed unable to feed on it but was unwilling
to part with its trophy, carrying the large fish as it swam out with the
tide
under a cloudy sky. A single Little Grebe
dived under a few metres away and surfaced with a large prawn in its beak.
There were the usual gulls
and waders including a Little Egret,
Redshanks
and Dunlins.
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8
November 2014
A
Crow
trotted around St. Mary de Haura churchyard on a cloudy day with a Gale
Force
7 blowing. At sea the waves were topped
with whitecaps.
A high spring tide battered against Coronation
Green. |
4 November
2014
Brent
Geese
On
a sunny late morning two Brent Geese
were foraging on Widewater, a Redshank
probed in the mud, and three Little Egrets,
three Cormorants
and four Little Grebes
were all seen fishing in the shallow lagoon.
2 November
2014
Bloody
Cranesbill
Bloody
Cranesbill is
a native English plant but most incidents are now probably garden escapes.
These specimens are still flowering in the rain
in my wild front garden. These are the horticultural species/variety Pencilled
Cranesbill, Geranium versicolor &/or
Geranium
x oxonianum, Cultivar: 'Claridge
Druce'.
November
2013 Reports
Wild
Flowers 2014
Shoreham
Weather 2014
EasyTide
(Shoreham)
Shoreham
Beach Weather Station
Adur
Nature Notes 2013 |
