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December 2010
Two
adult urban Foxes
with bushy coats and tails were chasing each other in Adelaide Square,
Shoreham, just before mignight,
2 December
2010
Snow
fell over night in a Gentle Breeze (Force
3) that blew in from the
NNE at 8 m.p.h.
The
pavement depth of snow was measured at
155
mm at 10.00 am.
The air temperature at 8:00 am
was minus 3.8 °C.
29
October 2010
A
single
Wood Pigeon
was seen eating Holly
berries from a tree at the north end of Ravens Road, in Shoreham, which
was rapidly becoming denuded of its red berries to 50% of its crop.
22
October 2010
A
Red
Admiral Butterfly rose from a flower
in the tiny front garden of 25 Western Road, Shoreham.
Butterfly
List 2010
10
October 2010
The
first one of two Large White Butterflies
at the top of Buckingham Park, north Shoreham, flew rapidly from west to
east, with one flying slowly and close enough to be postively identified.
There
was a clump of Common Ink Cap
mushrooms at the top of the park near the top western entrance.
Full
Butterfly Report
7 October
2010
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On the patch of grassland north of Brooklands, east Worthing (west of the Lancing border) the wildflower meadow creation contained a few White Campion, a few Corn Cockle, occasional Cornflowers, frequent Yarrow, a few Common Poppies and other meadow plants that attracted a Red Admiral Butterfly and a medium-sized brown moth or butterfly that fluttered away too quickly to be identified. Evening Primrose was flowering in a separate part of the open space.
6 September
2010
A
single
Red Fox
would not be notable, but two young
Foxes
were playing in the rain in The Twitten, Southwick, just after 10:30
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August 2010
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July 2010
There were at least four Holly Blues seen in Buckingham Park, one skimming across the mostly grass football pitches like a Common Blue and it could even have been one. At the top of the park, Lesser Burdock was much in evidence visited by the common species of hoverflies, including frequent Marmalade Flies. And many more Honey Bees than usual, There were also Large White Butterflies, at least one Small White and two Speckled Woods. There were probably many more Speckled Woods. Butterfly & Moth Report A terrier dog barking attracted my attention to the Wasps Nest high in a tree at the top of Buckingham Park, Shoreham. It is the nest of the Tree Wasp, Dolichovespula media. |
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July 2010
A
Comma
Butterfly visited my overgrown garden
in Corbyn Crescent in residential Shoreham.
10
July 2010
The
elusive White-letter
Hairstreaks were discovered in Kingston
Lane, Shoreham. Opposite the southern entrance to Shoreham Academy (formerly
Kings Manor School) there is a long line of Elms
on the east side of Kingston Lane (TQ 237
056). In the morning we saw two at the northern
end of these Elms at
about 10:00 am
and then another about half way along. They spent the whole time flitting
round the canopy though I did see one settled through binoculars. These
are the first records of this butterfly on these web pages.
Also a Small Tortoiseshell
and then a first of the year Clouded Yellow
in Phoenix Way, Southwick.
6 July
2010
Hedgehogs
are out at night. One trotted across Middle Road in Shoreham, just before
midnight.
5 July
2010
Over
Chanctonbury Drive (SE of the bridge of the A27 to Mill
Hill) there were two more Meadow Brown
Butterflies and a surprise two Ringlet
Butterflies in the location the latter
had never been recorded before. The Ringlets
settled high in the shrub canopy. At the top of The Drive, north Shoreham,
a definite Green-veined White Butterfly
was spotted followed by my first
Red Admiral
of the day.
Full
Butterfly & Moth Report
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June 2010
Great Mullein and Perforate St. John's Wort were seen growing and in flower out of the cracks in the pavement in Corbyn Crescent, Shoreham, along with the more familiar colonisers like White Clovers, Red Clovers, Ragwort, Bird's Foot Trefoil, Oil Seed Rape etc. |
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June 2010
My
first Hedgehog
of the year was discovered curled up by the kerb in Dolphin Road, Shoreham,
about 11:00 pm
on a Sunday evening. This was a very dangerous road for a Hedgehog
to be during the week.
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25
June 2010
The Herring Gull is calling for its missing mate. Original Story |
25
June 2010
A
Speckled
Wood Butterfly flew over Ham Road by the
Co-operative Supermarket in the built-up area of central Shoreham.
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22
June 2010
A Beautiful Demoiselle, Calopteryx virgo, settled on the top of a leaf amongst vegetation at the top of Slonk Hill Farm Road on the south-west side of the bridge over the A27. |
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June 2010
At
dusk a large moth was silhouetted against the
sky amongst the rooftops in The Twitten in Southwick and this was thought
to be one of the immigrant Hawkmoths.
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June 2010
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The
South
Downs Raptor Club had a display of captive
owls
at Buckingham Park, Shoreham which included the three British species.
18
June 2010
A
Herring
Gull managed
to get its wing caught in a TV aerial in Gordon Avenue, Shoreham.
The
first new flowers of the year were Self-heal
and Hop Trefoil
on the verges of Erringham Road, north Shoreham, followed by the first
Bee
Orchids on the verge in Mill Hill Drive.
Wild
Flower List
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A Small
Red Damselfly settled at the top of Chanctonbury
Drive, north Shoreham.
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Damselflies 2010
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Young
healthy Red Foxes
are seen every evening for five late evenings on the trot in Middle Road
or Corbyn Crescent, Shoreham.
12
June 2010
An
unidentified
vanessid flew over the Continental Market
in Brunswick Road, Shoreham, a Holly Blue
Butterfly was seen in Mill Lane, Shoreham
and a Large White
over Shoreham town.
8 June
2010
In
the twitten between Adelaide Square
and Corbyn Crescent in residential Shoreham,
I noted for the first time that the Nipplewort
flowers close down in the evening. I also noted Opium
Poppy for the first time this year at
the top of The Drive, Shoreham.
21
March 2010
At
last I saw my first butterfly of the year:
a Red Admiral
flew
around the bridge over the A27
to Mill Hill.
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March 2010
Three more clumps of Common Frog spawn appeared in my front garden in Corbyn Crescent; joining the first clump spawn laid on 3 March 2010. The previous spawn was submerged, helped by my own methods of breaking the ice when it was below freezing earlier in the month. |
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A Magpie performed an amazing feat of removing a large quantity of moss from the gutter above the Hair & Nail Lounge in the northern part of East Street, in Shoreham town centre, adjacent (east of) St. Mary de Haura churchyard. The debris was deposited on the pavement outside the shop. The handiwork (although using its beak) took six minutes (timed) as it proceeded from the south end of the gutter above the shop to the extreme northern end.
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March 2010
A
small expanse of the yellow Lesser Celandine
was spotted in flower in the Adur Civic
Centre grounds adjacent to (east of) the Duke of Wellington Public House
in Shoreham.
7 March
2010
Ice
froze over the Common Frog spawn
in my garden pond overnight as the air temperature fell to a low of minus
2.9 °C
at 7:00 am.
Shoreham
Weather 2010
3 March 2010
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5 February
2010
A
few weak rays of sunshine were noticeable after a dreary start to the year,
and the first clumps of Snowdrops flowered
in the established self-sustaining colony under the tree cover in the wide
twitten
between Buckingham Park and Ravensbourne Avenue in north Shoreham.
2 February
2010
Fieldfares
were
still around, despite the disappearance of the snow. A small flock were
seen amongst the bare Elms and at least two hopping along the ground in
Portslade Cemetery. The air temperature reached 8.5
°C at 1:00
pm, but their was still ice on my plastic
turtle test pond in my front garden.
January
2010
After
the snow the urban Red Foxes, Vulpes
vulpes, were seen more often than
ever in the urban areas of Shoreham and Southwick after dusk, as many as
three seen in different places in one evening. Typical locations were near
St
Mary de Haura Church yard in central Shoreham, crossing Gordon Road
and Middle Road in Shoreham, in Kingston Buci in the vicinity of the church,
anywhere around Southwick Green and at the western end of Croft Avenue,
Southwick, near the Ship Public House. All of them seemed young and healthy
and I noticed a distinctive large white spot on the tail of one in Kingston
Buci.
The
red fox is most commonly a rusty red, with white underbelly, black ear
tips and legs, and a bushy tail usually with a distinctive white tip. (Wikipedia)
12
January 2010
A
thin layer of snow laid over night, replacing the melted snow of the previous
day. It was deeper than it first appeared, measured at 35
mm on the pavement outside my house in Shoreham.
The night and day air temperature was fractionally above freezing.
14
January 2010
The
snow and ice had disappeared on the roof tiles and pavements outside of
my house in Shoreham.
Shoreham
Weather 2010: Snow
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January 2010
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Much
of the loose packed snow melted quickly to slush by the early afternoon.
There was a steady drip from the evergreen and for trees on which the snow
had landed. After dusk, the temperature rose and by midnight
almost all the snow had turned to slush.
cf.
Chestnut Trees (1970s)
9 January
2010
Further
snow fell in the morning reaching an accumulated depth of 20
mm on the Shoreham pavements. The temperature
fell to minus 3.1 °C
at 7:00 am. The
wind was blowing partly from the west so where no snow landed in places
sheltered from the east winds before (notably the twitten between Corbyn
Crescent and Adelaide Square in Shoreham, which was previously bare of
snow), there was now a notable layer of a a few millimetres.
Shoreham
Weather 2010: Snow
7
January 2010
A
flock of about twenty Fieldfares
visited
North Farm Road in South Lancing feasting on the red
berries of a Cotoneaster
'Cornubia'
tree in the Hamblett's
back garden. One of these northern thrushes
was seen to gobble up three berries
in quick succession.
In
severe winters these birds move south and from the countryside into the
parks and larger gardens.
RSPB
Fieldfares
6 January
2010
A
steady flurry of light snow blew in from the east in a Moderate Breeze
(Force 5)
but the air temperature remained just above freezing. The ground temperature
must have been lower as the duration of the snowfall lasted for hours in
the morning and a small amount of snow to 8
mm laid on the pavements of Shoreham.
Shoreham
Weather 2010: Snow
3 January
2010
On
the way home form the pub, a Red Fox
trotted across Middle Road, Shoreham (at the Kingston Buci end) and
this was the first wild mammal report of the year.
