FEATURES
WILDLIFE
REPORTS
30
November 2018
After
three days of rain and winds gusting to Gale Force
8 the weather
brightened up and there was a Clouded
Yellow and a Peacock
Butterfly on the lower sloes of Mill
Hill around midday.
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Butterfly Flight Times
Lapwings at Old Shoreham
14
November 2018
More
images of the action from Mill
Hill in the form of an ovipositing Clouded
Yellow. Also seen were a further five
male
Clouded Yellows,
three Common Blue, a
Brimstone and Comma.
13
November 2018
A
return visit to Mill Hill (upper
slope) at lunchtime produced another fairly fresh Clouded
Yellow Butterfly
and a shy Speckled Wood.
5
November 2018
An
immigrant Hummingbird Hawk-moth,
Macroglossum
stellatarum,
visited
a purple Salvia flower in
a Shoreham town back yard.
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Hawk-moths
2 November
2018
The
Kestrel
hunting over the top of Mill Hill did not
seem to worry about the human presence but the bird of prey was disturbed
three times in half an hour by dogs. It hovered and dived beneath the bush
line once, but it was not seen to make a successful strike.
A Painted
Lady Butterfly visited one of the occasional
remaining Greater Knapweed flowers
near the upper car park on Mill Hill.
Brown
Argus,
Common
Blue,
Meadow
Brown,
Clouded Yellow, Brown
Argus
November
Butterflies
Photographs
by Dave Cook
It
was just too good to stay at my desk and so headed to Mill
Hill. Under clear blue sky and light wind,
it wasn't long before I had my first, albeit brief, sighting of a fresh
female Common Blue
as I was walking down the steps towards the lower slope. By the time I
reached the northern end I had 6 male Clouded
Yellow under my belt. In the bottom corner
were numerous mix of male and female Common
Blue,
most in various states of ‘worn’ but one male stood out as a minter. On
my return I spotted what I initially thought was a Common
Blue
pairing when who should show up but Vince.
He and I spent the best part of an hour discussing this very late phenomena
for a Common
Blue
pairing when we suddenly noticed the possibility that one of them could
actually be a Brown Argus.
The pair then rotated 180° so we got a good view of both sides and
realised they they were in fact both Brown
Argus.
A very fresh Meadow Brown
was also seen along with a very large Small
White and a Red
Admiral.
These
were the first two local reports of both Brown
Argus
and Small White in the month of November.
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Butterfly Flight Times
November
2017 Reports
Shoreham
Weather 2018
EasyTide
(Shoreham)
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