EVENTS
WILDLIFE
REPORTS
24
September 2014
On
a cloudy day. I picked an overcast period as the River
Adur was flooded by an equinoctial spring
tide
just after midday. Three Grey Herons
stood in the Sea Purslane
covered shallows with two Little Egrets,
at the first bend in the river north of the Toll
Bridge.
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Grey
Heron
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Common
Darters
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Darters
(dragonflies)
were
occasionally spotted including a mating pair of
Common Darters
flying
in tandem over the Downs Link Cyclepath,
north of Old Shoreham.
22
September 2014
Lesser
Weever
On
an unusual autumn shrimping expedition off
Shoreham, a venomous Lesser Weever,
Echiichthys
vipera, was caught in the push-net
in very shallow water.
Shrimping
Report
19
September 2014
Garden
Orb Spider
Araneus
diadematus
Butterflies
have given way to spiders,
crane flies and
dragonflies
on an Indian Summer day (> 21.4°C).
Common
Darters were present over streams and
patches of water like field drainage, and larger dragonflies were either
Southern
Hawkers or Migrant
Hawkers and probably both.
Brief
Butterfly Report
18 September
2014
I spotted
half a dozen stumpy Common Lizards,
Lacerta
vivipara, on the chestnut fencing
at the top of the Pixie Path that had all lost
part of, or for two of them, almost all of their tails. These were the
first I have seen this year.
17
September 2014
A
large adult Hedgehog
had a stand off with a Cat
that seemed a less than even match in Corbyn Crescent, Shoreham. It is
good to see Hedgehogs
are still active near Middle Road allotments.
16
September 2014
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Brown
Argus on
Carline Thistle
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Adonis
Blues
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On
a warm (21.7 °C)
humid afternoon butterflies
were still present on the lower slopes of Mill
Hill. Eight species
were seen including Adonis
Blues
and
Small
Heaths.
Full
Mill Hill Report
9 September
2014
Kingfisher
at Widewater Lagoon. Lancing
Photograph
by Howard Kearley
Wildlife
of Lancing, Sompting & surrounds facebook
8
September 2014
Hairy Porcelain Crab
Lesser Spotted Dogfish
A large
ripple followed by a dark grey shape was a Common
Seal underneath the Adur
Ferry Bridge just after the low spring tide
had turned. It did not surface so its identity was not confirmed but there
was a commotion in the shallow water caused by a single animal.
On
a warm September
afternoon a rockpooling trip to Worthing Pier
was distinguished by a Mermaid's
Purse washed up against the pier supports,
that contained a live shark (Lesser Spotted
Dogfish) that was released from its purse
and placed in a small aquarium.
Rockpooling
Report
7 September
2014
Little
Stint, Calidris
minuta feeding on a sandhopper
at
Widewater Lagoon. Lancing
Photograph
by Jan Charteris
4 September
2014
Two
Clouded
Yellow Butterflies were seen fluttering
over the flowery shingle
above the high tide mark on Shoreham
Beach on separate occasions. Although
still
warm (> 21°C)
with
not much of a breeze, but there were still
signs of change, a lone Swallow
over the beach, and scores of immigrant Starlings
in the hedgerows amongst the blackberries,
elderflower
berries, rose hips
and haws.
A score or more Great Black-backed Gulls
rested with other gulls on the mud flats at low tide between the Railway
Viaduct and the Toll Bridge.
2 September
2014
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Adonis
Blue 
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Adonis
Blue 
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Large
White
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Over
a hundred House Martins
swooped over the River
Adur
and the Riverbank Business Centre north of the Railway
Viaduct on the eastern bank. The sun shined and out came ten
species of butterfly.
Adur
Butterfly Report
September
2013 Reports
Wild
Flowers 2014
Shoreham
Weather 2014
EasyTide
(Shoreham)
Shoreham
Beach Weather Station
Adur
Nature Notes 2013 |
