(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.
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.
18
November 2008
A
flock of an unknown number of Long-tailed
Tits were spotted where the path goes
uphill to the Butterfly Copse.
17 October 2008
A Comma Butterfly and Common Darter settled on the wooden rail in the Butterfly Copse next to the Waterworks Road.
8 September
2008
A
large Volucella zonaria
hoverfly
was spotted on Ivy in the Butterfly Copse next to the Waterworks Road.
There were at least two pristine Red Admiral
Butterflies attracted to the Ivy.
Yellow Archangel, Lamiastrum galeobdolon, is to be found on the verges of the Waterworks Road by the metal fence on the footpath section at the bottom of the gardens.
23
July 2008
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The first hoverfly Volucella inanis of the year was spotted in the Butterfly Copse next to the Waterworks Road. where the first berries of Hawthorn were visited by the Peacock Butterfly.
29
June 2008
In
the late afternoon, two fresh Comma Butterflies
courted over the Waterworks
Road with a Large White
and a Speckled Wood
nearby.
Full
Butterfly Report
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May 2008
This small bug was spotted on Green Alkanet on the Waterworks Road, Old Shoreham. I could not find this in the Beetles, so it was a Bug, Mirius striatus. |
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3
May 2008
On
the verges of the footpath section of the Waterworks Road, three Holly
Blues, a pair of Green-veined
Whites, a male Orange-tip,
and a Brimstone Butterfly
were seen in the first two minutes.
29
April 2008
On
a tepid cool 11 °C
day a passage trip on the footpath section of the the Waterworks
Road produced two fresh Large Whites,
a
female Orange-tip and a Holly
Blue Butterfly, all attracted to Green
Alkanet flowers.
Adur
Butterfly List 2008
25
April 2008
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Another first were two female Orange-tip Butterflies positively identified from over the Waterworks Road, chased by a single male and very flightly, stopping only very briefly on Green Alkanet flowers, a least thrice after being disturbed by Rhingia campestris hoverflies. A Peacock Butterfly took flight.
20
April 2008
Four
male Orange-tip Butterflies were
quickly seen over the Waterworks Road, north of Old Shoreham, the first
one seen immediately. These were the first of the year in Shoreham. A Peacock
Butterfly settled.
Adur
Butterflies: First Dates
Adur
Butterfly List 2008
4
April 2008
A
golden
adult Slow Worm,
Anguis
fragilis, over 30 cm long, basked
in the weak sunshine in the Butterfly Copse next to the Waterworks
Road. I tickled the repltile and it slowly
slithered into the undergrowth.
7 March
2008
I
was surprised to find a dead Badger
in Old Shoreham on the east side of the Steyning Road south of the entrance
to the Waterworks Road,
almost beneath the town sign of Shoreham-by-Sea.
It
was a surprise because I have never seen any live Badgers
in the Shoreham area.
The
first Comma Butterfly
of the year emerged from hibernation to flutter around the Butterfly Copse
next to the Waterworks Road,
Old Shoreham. It was in pristine condition and was restless, rarely settling
for more than 15 seconds, and after a few minutes it flew off rapidly westwards.
Field
Speedwell was seen in flower
on the road verges and two Greater Periwinkle
flowers were poking through the fence from a garden.
Adur
Butterfly Flight Times
Adur
Butterflies: First Dates
Adur
Butterfly List 2008
Waterworks
Road and Butterfly Copse 2007
