WILDLIFE
REPORTS
24
September 2019
A
Dolphin
stranded alive at Soldier's Point near Shoreham Harbour
entrance on the high equinoctial spring tide at
1:00
pm was helped back into the water by volunteers.
20
September 2019
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Spotted
Flycatcher
Under
a clear blue sky a handful of House
Martins flew to and fro over the top of
Mill
Hill prior to emigration south. And there were two Spotted
Flycatchers seen amongst the scrub a near
the copse at the top of the hill. They would be also on passage prior to
spending the winter much further south.
Mill
Hill Full Report
16
September 2019
About
forty butterflies
of eleven species were spotted on the lower
slopes of Mill Hill on a
cloudy afternoon. Simultaneously, I caught
a glimpse of the small or brightly coloured Small
Copper Butterfly and the first of two
male Chalkhill Blues
in remarkably good condition. I did not see any brown
females but a worn male Adonis
Blue or two quarrelled with the other
blues.
A spectacularly bright Clouded Yellow
was unmistakable out of camera range. A faded Brown
Argus
showed.
Full
Report
8
September 2019
Purple
Loosestrife, Wasp
Spider, Weeping
Willow
Brown
Hairstreak
Annington
& Bramber
I just
made an unplanned detour as the sun came out and I spotted a Wasp
Spider at Annington
Sewer and a Brown
Hairstreak Butterfly in
Castle Lane Park, Bramber.
Adur
Levels Report
4 September
2019
A White-tailed
Sea Eagle
was tracked over the downs rising on a thermal above Shoreham
downs reaching an altitude of 807 metres (Mill
HIll is 67 metres above sea level) before
heading west over the downs parallel with the coast half an hour before
(1:00 pm) I arrived
on MiIl Hill.
Flight
of Culver the Eagle (Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation)
Disappearance
of Culver
3 September
2019
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Juvenile Adder
Mill
Hill
I visited
the area around the Reservoir on Mill Hill
to try and get a better picture of the Adder
but there were dark low clouds and it was breezy as well, proving conditions
difficult to focus for photography
and inimical for butterflies. There
was half a dozen large Slow Worms
and a smaller juvenile Adder south
of the Reservoir, occasional butterflies on the ridge and plateau including
Small
Whites, Meadow
Browns,
Small
Heaths, one male Adonis
Blue and one Red
Admiral. On the close short vegetation
on the plateau of Mill Hill noted the first
Autumn
Gentian and Autumn
Lady's Tresses of the year with frequent
Round-headed
Rampion.
Mill
Hill Illustrated Report
1 September
2019
A
Southern
Hawker (dragonfly)
flying five metres above the Downs Link Cyclepath
north of Erringham Gap looked like it was a predator on the hunt.
LINKS
September
2018 Reports
Shoreham
Weather 2019
EasyTide
(Shoreham)
Adur
Nature Notes 2013 |
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