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16
November 2009
A
Red
Fox ran across Middle Road and quickly
climbed up a Fir Tree on the north edge of the open space west of Church
Green, Shoreham, just before midnight.
9 November
2009
Jays
were seen on two occasions in Shoreham town
gathering acorns from Evergreen Oaks at the top of Oxen Avenue and
at the far west end of The Avenue, Old Shoreham.
Early
November 2009
Nipplewort
and Annual Wall Rocket
were frequently seen on the wall-pavement edges and in cracks in the paving
in twittens in Shoreham.
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13
October 2009
Butterflies
seen over Southwick and Shoreham in the morning were one Clouded
Yellow, three Large
Whites and two each of Speckled
Woods, Painted
Ladies and Small
Whites. The Clouded
Yellow was seen flying across the western
approach to Southwick Square and the two Speckled
Woods were courting over a Yew
sapling
in St. Julian's Churchyard, Kingston Buci.
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September 2009
This brightly coloured caterpillar was spotted crawling across the tarmaced approach to Tarmount Public Hard in Shoreham. It is the larva of the Sycamore Moth Acronicta aceris. The moth varies in colour from pale grey to dark sooty-grey. The caterpillar feeds on the leaves of Sycamore or Horse Chestnut. |
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17
August 2009
Four
thrushes
landed on the grass at the top of Buckingham Park. Their appearance appeared
incongruous and I was curious to discover what species they were before
I frightened the ground feeding birds into flying into the shelter of a
Horse Chestnut Tree. Although the birds did not seem any larger than than
normal, the overall grey head appearance leads to be to identify them as
Mistle
Thrushes.
13-18
August 2009
Southern
Hawkers (dragonfly)
are seen in each of the five days, in ones on the edge of Shoreham town,
over the residential areas of both Shoreham and Southwick.
4 August
2009
A
Wall
Brown Butterfly fluttered across Middle
Road, Shoreham through the wire fencing and into the trees in Middle Road
Open Space.
8 June
2009
An
afternoon outing on an overcast day on the southern side of Buckingham
Cutting, the small blue butterflies amongst the Brambles were all Small
Blues and the estimate was 75+ in this
small area. My first Marbled White Butterfly
of the year made a sudden appearance.
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There
were eight species of butterfly seen in an hour on a cloudy afternoon including
frequent Speckled Woods
in Buckingham Park, Shoreham.
Full
Butterfly Report
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7
June 2009
A female Stag Beetle, Lucanus cervus, crawled across the pavement of Buckingham Road, Shoreham, just north of the junction with Nicolson Drive. Adur Beetles |
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27
May 2009
A male Stag Beetle was rescued from the middle of The Street, Old Shoreham, at the top end next to Frampton's Field and thrown back into the narrow band of trees. Adur Beetles |
26
May 2009
The
mass immigration of Painted Lady Butterflies
was
astonishing, throughout the morning over Southwick and Portslade the Painted
Ladies
exceeded two a minute for an hour and
were over one a minute the rest of the time, with large numbers (100+)
in Portslade Cemetery and on the main road that traversed Hove Cemetery,
the butterflies
flew across the road at over 30 every minute for five minutes in passing.
The conservative estimate was at least 500 seen as I cycled along the urban
roads. Occasionally a Large White Butterfly
was spotted.
Adur
Butterfly List 2009
11
May 2009
My
first Slow Worm
of the year was a large adult on the tarmac twitten
between Rosslyn Avenue and Gordon Avenue in the Shoreham residential area.
They are seen in this twitten every year.
9 May
2009
Foxes
are hardly newsworthy nowadays, but at 9:00
pm one young Fox
boldly trotted from the Catholic Church of Saint Peter due south down West
Street in a part of town with small rear gardens and only a few pocket
front gardens on the west side.
20
April 2009
A
visit to the overgrown Mash
Barn Lane, Lancing, recorded easily 20 Speckled
Woods, some mating, around five Holly
Blue, a female Orange
Tip, a Comma,
two Small Tortoiseshell,
a Brimstone,
at least one Small White,
two or more Peacock,
all seen in a small area and in around 15 minutes watching time. Eight
species.
A
Speckled
Wood fluttered over my front garden in
Corbyn Crescent, Shoreham-by-Sea.
Adur
Butterfly List 2009
1
April 2009
A
Small
White Butterfly flew over a garden in
Dolphin Road, Shoreham.
12
March 2009
I
was surprised to see a Yellowhammer
fly into a tree in Portslade Cemetery.
21
February 2009
The
first Daffodils
of the year were seen on the edge of the unadopted thoroughfare next to
the Hamm Road Allotments in Shoreham town.
20
February 2009
A
small flock of about eight Great Tits
were seen in the trees at the western end of Rosslyn Road, Shoreham.
19
February 2009
The
first handful of Lesser Celandine flowers
are seen amongst the grass on the Withy Gap, Lancing.
16
February 2009
The
first Snowdrops
of the year were seen in the churchyard of St. Julian's in Kingston Buci.
8
February 2009
As
the rain poured down, a pair of courting Jays
were making a racket with their chattering calls in the front garden immediately
to the west of Querneby Close in Kingston Buci, east Shoreham.
2 February
2009
In
St. Mary de Haura Churchyard in central Shoreham I chanced upon a resting
Sparrowhawk.
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January 2009
Foxes
were both energetic bold and two particularly were noted nearing midnight,
one at Kingston Buci leaping over a wall into the school grounds, and another
in Middle Road, Shoreham, in healthy condition and distinct under the street
lamps.
10
January 2009
The
air temperature recorded in Shoreham at 7:00
am at minus 7.3 °C was the lowest
this millennium.
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There
was a considerable amount of feathery Hoar
Frost in the morning. The 'feathery' variety
forms when the surface temperature reaches freezing point before dew begins
to form on it.
Shoreham
Weather (Met Office)
Adur
Weather 2009
3 January
2009
The
first bird of prey of the year was a Sparrowhawk
swooping between the houses in Buckingham Road south of the Mill Lane junction.
1 January
2009
My
first bird of the year seen was an unidentified gull, probably a Herring
Gull on the roof opposite my window in
Corbyn Crescent, the residential part of Shoreham-by-Sea, followed by a
handful of Starlings and
looking out over the back garden, a small flock of House
Sparrows congregated in the high shrubbery.
Shoreham
Town Wildlife Reports 2007
