Footpath 3138 approach to Mill Hill from the Waterworks Road. Formerly part of the original Mill Hill, although the horse grazing (Frampton's Field) field was ploughed up in the late fifties. This page will include some reports from the Mill Hill Cutting adjacent to the path when it runs west to east. The path itself has always been a "Right of Way". This is on chalk. There are rabbit burrows undermining the path.
Slonk Hill Cutting 2009 (including the Pixie Path)
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September 2008
A
trip to the Pixie Path was for the purpose of picking blackberries
rather than the butterflies of which there
were a handful of Red Admirals
and a Peacock Butterfly.
Adur
Butterfly List 2008
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August 2008
Another Volucella inanis and a noteworthy Volucella pellucens hoverfly were seen on the Pixie Path in the north-west corner amongst the Ivy. |
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July 2008
23
July 2008
A
Wall
Brown Butterfly landed in Frampton's Field,
Old Shoreham, next to the Pixie Path. Typically the
Wall
Brown chose to land on the bare earth amongst
a horse pasture of grass.
Adur
Butterfly List 2008
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July 2008
Just about the brightest Peacock Butterfly I have ever seen flew around the Ivy on the Pixie Path in the north-west of Frampton's Field area. The photograph has not been enhanced in any way. A few Holly Blues, Meadow Browns, Gatekeepers and Large White Butterflies were also seen. Full Butterfly Report |
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16
May 2008
There was a handful of flowers of Horseshoe Vetch, Hippocrepis comosa, right in the middle of the west-east part of the Pixie Path. A close examination revealed only about ten very small leaves. The low lying plants were growing out of some very short grass and mixed herbs, with a single diminutive Common Vetch flower and leaves. |
10
May 2008
The
first female
Broad-bodied
Chaser
(dragonfly),
Libellula depressa,
of the year flew across in front of me at the top of the
Pixie Path to Mill Hill. A male and
female pair of Azure
Damselflies, Coenagrion puella, were
also seen on the north-south section of the Pixie Path.
Adur
Dragons & Damsels 2008
10 May 2008
This small Carpet Moth, (Common species is Epirrhoe alternata), flew into the shade. This may actually be the Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet Moth, Xanthorhoe ferrugata. The lichens were on the chestnut fencing of the Pixie Path.
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March 2008
9
March 2008
A handful of Sweet Violets were now to be seen flowering on the Pixie Path. There were a few Queen Buff-tailed Bumblebees, Bombus terrestris flying around the ground vegetation.
Adur Violets
Adur Bumblebees
10
February 2008
My
first large Queen bumblebee
of 2008 flew
rapidly away from me over Frampton's Field, Old Shoreham. It was not identified
but I think it was probably a Buff-tailed
Bumblebee,
Bombus terrestris.
