16
December 2008
A
healthy young Fox
was seen in the middle of the night on the Brunswick Road Railway Crossing
Gates.
1 &
2 December 2008
Healthy
adult Foxes
were seen in the early evening in Shoreham one casually ambling across
Middle Road near the Open Space.
22
November 2008
A
brown Red Fox
trotted throught the twitten from St. Mary's Church
and stop in the middle of Middle Street in the mid-evening.
18
November 2008
A
flock of about twenty Long-tailed Tits
landed in a smallish leafless deciduous tree at the northern end of Rosslyn
Avenue in Shoreham town, and then they flew in a north-easterly direction
over the Hamm Road Allotments before I could get my camera out.
16
November 2008
A
Red
Admiral Butterfly fluttered around the
south-facing shop fronts at the western end of Shoreham High Street around
midday.
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Butterfly List 2008
2 September
2008
After
the wettest August
in my lifetime of over 50 years, Agaric mushrooms
appeared in St. Mary de Haura churchyard in central
Shoreham.
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September 2008
A male Meadow Brown Butterfly was seen in Corbyn Crescent in Shoreham town, and only my third Painted Lady of the year in good condition settled in front of me adjacent to the Middle Road Allotments, Shoreham. (Unusually, I did not have my camera with me.) |
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August 2008
This caterpillar was seen by the railway level crossing gates in Eastern Avenue, Shoreham. It was a larva of the Toadflax Brocade, Calophasia lunula. ID
By Martin Sansford
on Flickr
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Speckled
Woods were noted for their frequency (18+)
at the top of Buckingham Park, Shoreham. This butterfly is not often seen
on flowers but were repeatedly attracted
to Lesser Burdock.
There were two more of these butterflies on Mill Hill and more on the outskirts
of Shoreham. White butterflies
were everywhere in small numbers, notably four Green-veined
Whites at the top of Buckingham Park and
this was the most frequent of the whites on the day, although both Small
Whites and Large
Whites were also identified, most of these
whites were not identified as they fluttered around much too quickly. Seven
Holly
Blues were seen in Shoreham town and the
outskirts. Another surprise was a good condition Small
Tortoiseshell on Buddleia
at the top of the Drive, Shoreham.
Full
Butterfly Report
4
August 2008
In
the breezy conditions, a visit to the downs
was contemplated but not undertaken because of the unfavourable conditions.
Butterflies
were frequent in Shoreham town and at the top
of Buckingham Park amongst the Lesser Burdock
and Stinging Nettles, both
Large
Whites and Small
Whites were identified; both species were
quite large and the identification was made by the greater amount of black
on the wing tips of the Large White.
However, the most prevalent white butterfly was the Green-veined
White with at least six noted and there
may have been more. There were also occasional
Speckled
Woods (4+) and a fresh lot of Holly
Blues.
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A
Red
Admiral Butterfly was seen at the top
of The Drive, and a further one in the Butterfly Copse (next to the Waterworks
Road), with a
Gatekeeper Butterfly
first recorded in the twitten between
Corbyn Crescent and Adelaide Square, with a Volucella
zonaria
hoverfly,
and another Gatekeeper
noted on Buckingham Cutting south, with
a Meadow
Brown
noted and at least three more Holly Blues
and four Common
Blues,
including a female. A hurried passage trip down the Pixie
Path produced two male Chalkhill Blues
(one on the Mill Hill Cutting south-west)
with four Common Blues
in the long grass in the north-west corner of Frampton's Field, and 
a
few more Holly Blues.
Finally, only my second Painted Lady of
the year was a pristine butterfly in the twitten between Ropetackle and
Victoria Road in Shoreham town.
A
handful of Common Darters
(dragonflies) were seen at the top of Buckingham
Park and a Southern Hawker
in the Butterfly Copse (next to the Waterworks Road).
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Butterfly List 2008
30
July 2008
My
first Hedgehog
seen in Shoreham this year trotted across St. Julians Lane, Kingston Buci,
just before midnight.
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27
July 2008
The second spectacular Volucella zonaria hoverfly of 2008 was seen amongst the waste land at the top of The Drive, Shoreham. |
June
2008
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Small Blue Butterfly on Kidney Vetch |
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May 2008
Hedge Woundwort was observed in flower for the first time this year on the Middle Road, Open Space, Shoreham. |
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8 May
2008
There
were 25 Swifts
over Crown Road, Shoreham.
4
May 2008
My
first House Martin
of the year was spotted with two over the rooftops of a house in Corbyn
Crescent in residential Shoreham. A single plant of Garlic
Mustard was a suprise on the kerb, with Annual
Wall Rocket now flowering
more prolifically.
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April 2008
Annual Wall Rocket in the twitten between Corbyn Crescent (south) and Adelaide Square, Shoreham, at the southern end. |
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April 2008
Buff-tailed Bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, on Bluebell in my front garden in Corbyn Crescent, Shoreham. |
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22
April 2008
My
first Holly Blue Butterfly
of the year was seen in Shoreham in the twitten from Victoria Road to Ropetackle
at the eastern end by the main road.
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Butterflies: First Dates
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Butterfly List 2008
16
April 2008
A
Jay
flew
over the houses on the north side of Gordon Road, near Gordon Avenue, in
an area where I have never seen this bird species before.
11
April 2008
On
a breezy afternoon, a Peacock Butterfly
basked on the Waterworks Road with another
one on footpath that runs along the south of Frampton's Field to The Street,
with a pristine Small Tortoiseshell on
Stinging Nettles, from which it may have just emerged after winter hibernation.
The first two Common Bee-flies,
Bombylius
major, of 2008,
buzzed around in the same area.
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Butterfly List 2008
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Flies 2008
9 April
2008
A
Small
Tortoiseshell visited a back garden in
The Drive, Shoreham-by-Sea.
3
April 2008
A
Small
White Butterfly fluttered across the western
end of Rosslyn Road in Shoreham town. This was
first one I had seen in 2008.
Adur
Butterfly List 2008
23
March 2008
After
the pub closed at 10:30 pm
on Easter Sunday,
I saw a healthy Red Fox
enter the churchyard of St. Michael in Southwick and ten minutes later
another Fox was
scrounging a morsel on the road verge outside Middle Road Open Space in
Shoreham.
5 March
2008
A
healthy adult Red Fox
trotted across Gordon Road from south to north in the centre (halfway along)
in a place where a Fox
had been seen before. It was encountered about
9:00 pm.
25
February 2008
The
first spawn
of the Common
Frog, Rana
temporaria, appeared in my garden
pond in Mill Hill Close, south of Mill
Hill, first thing in the morning.
21
February 2008
My
first Common Frog, Rana
temporaria, of 2008
was seen just before 7:00 pm,
in darkness, on my front doorstep in residential Shoreham,
a few metres from my small pond. The frog
was a sub-adult (possibly an early frog in its first spring or a second
year frog) and not a full grown adult frog. Frogs in
Sussex are assumed to hibernate during the winter, although in all the
mild winters this millennium, the hibernation period may have been brief.
We have seen a female (I think its female) Common Frog for about four weeks in the pond and now a small male has replaced the female. Lots of Smooth Newts, Triturus vulgaris, were seen in and around the pond in Mill Hill Close for the last two weeks.
13
February 2008
A
Small
Tortoiseshell Butterfly was seen flying
about my mother’s garden in Hawkins Close, Shoreham by Sea, in the early
afternoon in good sunshine. This
was the first local record of this species for 2008
and
the first ever for the month of February,
making
five species seen locally in the second month
of the year.
11
February 2008
A
male Brimstone Butterfly
settled on ivy on wall outside house in Mill
Hill Drive, Shoreham at midday.
This
was the first local record of this species for 2008.
16
January 2008
At
least a hundred Herring Gulls
(with over 90% adult gulls) paddled for worms after the recent rain, on
the greens adjoining Middle Road, Shoreham and Shoreham Grammar School
playing fields.
Shoreham
Town Wildlife Reports 2007
