WILDLIFE
REPORTS
22
October 2019
A
small Arctic bird called a Snow Bunting,
Plectrophenax
nivalis, made a surprise visit
to the far eastern end of Shoreham Beach
where it stayed in one place on the pebbles and grass, continually feeding
on seeds with its yellow beak. It seemed unperturbed by the frequent passing
lorries. Photographers could not get close
because of the temporary metal fencing. Snow
Buntings are a very scarce winter visitor
and passage migrant to the Shoreham area.
Previous
2012 report
Wall
Lizards, Snow Bunting
Shoreham
Fort
Unidentified
fungi
Silver
Sands
Seventeen
Wall
Lizards, Podarcis
muralis,
were easily seen on and around the carnot
wall of Shoreham
Fort in the calm sunshine. All but three
were large adult lizards and I expect there were many more in hiding.
There
were about forty familiar but unidentified mushrooms
on Silver Sands
above the high tide
limit. I think these mushrooms are Marasmius
oreades.
18
October 2019
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Dune
Waxcap, Hygrocybe
conicoides,
on
the Widewater Nature Reserve
Photograph
by Anthony Gammon
on World
of Widewater (WOW) facebook
This
is one of a small group of Dune Waxcaps
on the Widewater flood plain.
Adur
Waxcaps
Adur
Fungi 2019
9 October
2019
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Lapwings
About
fifteen Lapwings were back on the mud
flats at low tide,
north of the Tollbridge.
1 October
2019
The
high equinoctial spring tide lapped against the
highest banks and sea defences of the River
Adur at Shoreham-by-Sea
in the middle of the day. A flock of 30 Redshanks
was easily disturbed from their dry land roosts. Then a flock of 15 landed
on the tidal wall.
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Wall
Brown Butterfly
After
four days of inclement weather,
I was pleased to see a fresh Wall Brown
Butterfly over the verges just south of
the cyclepath crossroads at Old Shoreham.
Adur
Butterfly List 2019
LINKS
October
2018 Reports
Shoreham
Weather 2019
EasyTide
(Shoreham)
Adur
Nature Notes 2013 |
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