(The
Pixie
Footpath entries will be on their
web
page only)
Waterworks
Road and Pixie Path to Mill Hill transect is 525 metres long (Magic
Map)
When
I went to St. Nicolas School in the early
1960s this was at the foot of a bare (no scrub)
Mill
Hill.
5 August
2007
A
couple of Speckled Wood Butterflies
were courting rising up to a height about five metres fluttering around
each other over the Waterworks Road, Old Shoreham. This behaviour was seen
on a few occasions in the last few days. A Southern
Hawker (dragonfly)
flew even higher.
Full
Butterfly Report
4 July
2007
On
the footpath section of the Waterworks Road,
Old
Shoreham, I recorded my first two sparring
Gatekeeper
Butterflies of
2007 on another breezy (Force
6) overcast day when butterflies
were generally not flying. In the same area I spotted a Speckled
Wood and a Small
White and the first of of the occasional
Large
Whites. There was also two Common
Darters(dragonfly)
although
the red one could have equally been a Ruddy
Darter as it was not seen closely.
Full
Butterfly Report
2 July
2007
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On
a passage route through the Butterfly Copse near the Waterworks Road, I
nearly trod on adult Slow Worm
on the steps as I tried to photograph the small hoverfly
Xanthogramma
pedissequum. A Comma
Butterfly basked on the wooden railing.
Amongst the shrubbery at the back of the gardens and over the Stinging
Nettles adjoining the path on the south side of Frampton's Field, there
was a Red Admiral Butterfly
and a pair of Holly Blues.
Adur
Butterfly & Large Moth List
28
June 2007
Common
Gromwell, Lithospermum
officinale, was noticed on the Waterworks
Road verges for the first time.
13
June 2007
A
pristine Comma Butterfly
and a similarly fine condition Speckled
Wood Butterfly and Red
Admiral were seen in the southern footpath
section of the Waterworks Road, Old Shoreham.
The
flower illustrated on the right was growing wild amongst the tall vegetation
and Stinging Nettles on the western verge. It was a Hedge
Woundwort, Stachys
sylvatica. I
had never seen one in flower before.
15
April 2007
Three
Orange
Tips fluttered along the verges of the
Waterworks Road, but there was no Garlic Mustard
seen in flower in its usual places. A Peacock
Butterfly, a few Small
Whites were also seen as well as a Speckled
Wood in the Butterfly Copse.
Butterfly
Report
The
first hoverfly Myathropa
florea of the year landed on me in
the Butterfly Copse and the expected Rhingia
campestris hoverflies visited Green
Alkanet and White
Deadnettle.
My
first Common Carder Bee
Bombus
pascuorum of the year, with a furry orange thorax, was seen on
the Waterworks Road.
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10
April 2007
A Peacock and two Brimstone Butterflies made an appearance in a five minute visit to the Waterworks Road (footpath section). Adur Butterfly List |
5 April
2007
The
Public
Footpath
3138 section of the Waterworks Road south
proved to be the best area of the day with a Peacock
Butterfly seen immediately, and at least
one Comma,
one Small White
and three Brimstone Butterflies
all seen within three minutes.
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A red/purple
five petalled flower at the southern entrance to the Waterworks Road is
a naturalised garden species of Shamrock,
Oxalis.
Adur
Wild Flowers
2 April
2007
In
about five minutes on the Footpath
3138 section of the Waterworks Road, three
small white butterflies flew by too rapidly to identify and they appeared
to have a white fringe to their upper wings. Later more were seen and at
least two were identified as Small Whites.
In the same area four Brimstone Butterflies
flew by, two Comma Butterflies
were seen simultaneously on Nettles, and three Peacock
Butterflies settled. Earlier a Small
Tortoiseshell Butterfly was seen to fly
over the Waterworks Road.
Adur
Butterfly List 2007
Ownership
and public access to this land is currently the subject to an enquiry.
A Public Footpath
3138 comprises part of this land and another
one Path 3140
crosses the land at the southern end.
Waterworks
Road and Butterfly Copse 2006
