15
November 2011
Red
Foxes were particularly noticeable just
before midnight, notably a very healthy specimen in St. Julian's Churchyard,
Kingston Buci, and even more in my face were at amorous pair of young Foxes
at the Corbyn Crescent end of the twitten
to Adelaide Crescent in Shoreham. They found a gap in he wire fence at
the bottom of a garden.
12
November 2011
A
Red
Admiral Butterfly fluttered over the crossroads
of the paths in St. Mary de Haura churchyard in
the middle of New Shoreham, less than an hour before midday
on Farmer's
Market Day.
1 November
2011
An
emerald green Southern Hawker (dragonfly)
hawked along the western end of Nicolson Drive in residential Shoreham.
Sow
Thistle and Nipplewort
were still in flower in Shoreham town,
notably in the twitten between Corbyn
Crescent and Adelaide Square.
4 October
2011
The
colourful appearance of a Jay flew
from a tree on Church Green (residential estate) northwards for a short
distance at the western end of St. Julians Lane, Kingston Buci.
29 September 2011
Under
a clear blue sky an adult Slow Worm
was seen on the path between Nicolson Drive and Rosslyn Avenue in Shoreham.
This may be the first live one I have seen this year.
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25
September 2011
This plant was flowering in my Shoreham front garden in a crack in the concrete path. It was about 20 cm high with narrow green leaves. I think this is a White Flax, Linum suffruticosum, flower, an arable crop called Linseed. The
blue anthers look wrong for Linum suffruticosum. I suggest that
it's a very pale-flowered Flax,
Linum
usitatissimum. This might be from
bird seed.
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20
August 2011
300+
Starlings
landed on the roofs of about four houses in Dolphin Road at the westerly
junction with Corbyn Crescent, an unprecedented event for this area but
not unknown in Shoreham and a regular daily event with thousands on Shoreham
Beach during the winter.
23
July 2011
As
I cycled north down Church Street in central Shoreham,
I glanced and caught a commotion in St. Mary's Churchyard,
New Shoreham: four Jays
were squabbling amongst the gravestones. This
was the first time I had ever seen four of these corvids
together.
And I would have had a chance to observe their behaviour if a white terrier dog off its lead had not sent the dozen Wood Pigeons into flight and chased the Grey Squirrels up the trees.
21
June 2011
Just
before midnight a Hedgehog
trotted
along the pavement in St. Julian's Lane, Kingston Buci.
23
May 2011
An
early evening sighting of a Hedgehog
trotting down the Corbyn Crescent end of the twitten
(by the allotments) to Adelaide Square in residential Shoreham was a now
rather scarce sight and I was pleased to see it looked healthy and inquisitive
under the street lights. Later, I spotted it again. It reversed and curled
up at my approach just before midnight.
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15
May 2011
The first appearance of Lesser Hawkbit, Leontodon taraxacoides, this year, was most noted in chalky gardens at the top of The Drive, north Shoreham. |
13
April 2011
My
first Hedgehog
of the year was seen under the street lights as it crawled slowly from
the Shoreham College playing fields across St. Julian's Lane to the front
garden of the larger houses at the eastern end of the road.
10
April 2011
Two
Speckled
Wood Butterflies were courting over the
Middle Road Open Ground car park, Shoreham.
9 April
2011
The
withered berries of Ivy
were still providing sustenance for a young Starling
in the twitten between Victoria Road
and Ropetackle in central Shoreham.
29
March 2011
A
pair of Mallards flew
rapidly south, just above house height, across Rosslyn Road, Shoreham.
27
March 2011
A
Crow's
Nest was being built in the
Sycamore
in Corbyn Crescent, Shoreham. It was visited by the corvid,
but there was not sign of the bird on 10 April
2011.
7 March
2011
A
Robin
with a plump red breast landed on my front garden gate in Corbyn Crescent,
Shoreham. This was notable as this bird is rarely (if ever) recorded in
the road with plenty of hedges and garden trees, but also lots of cats.
28
February 2011
A
Crow
was
cacking at the break of dawn in Corbyn Crescent, Shoreham..
27
February 2011
The
first frog spawn
of the year was noted in my tiny garden pond in Corbyn Crescent, Shoreham.
January
& February 2011
Foxes
were seen almost every night boldly foraging around residential east Shoreham
just before midnight. All were adults and looked healthy under the street
lights. Foxes
mate in the first two months of the year.
2 January
2011
On
the verge by the Adur
District Council car park in Ham Road,
Shoreham, a fresh Dandelion
was the first wild flower seen this
year.
1 January
2011
The
first four legged wild mammal of the year was a Fox
in Corbyn Crescent, Shoreham, by the twitten
on the way home from the pub. About 8:00 am
I was awoken by the yapping of the Herring
Gulls, but I could not see them from my
window. A cacophony of Starlings in
the Sycamore Tree in Corbyn Crescent were the first birds recognised from
their silhouettes in the bare branches, followed immediately by a closer
view of a Collared Dove.
