WILDLIFE
REPORTS
28
September 2022
Guillemot
An
Auk
was seriously out of place paddling in the calm sea lapping against the
shingle Southwick beach. My immediate
thoughts was seabird was probably injured, or oiled, and unable to fly.
It was a winter plumage Guillemot.
22
September 2022
I
cycled the Downs Link from Old Shoreham
to the Cement Works in the last of the dry weather of the parched summer.
Hawkweed
Ox-tongue dominated patches of the uncut
verges. A Southern Hawker patrolled
Erringham Gap,
Downs
Link
Hawthorn
was
abundantly in berry amongst the hedgerow boundaries of the former railway
track.
Adur
Thorn
Adur
Thorn 2022
River
Adur at Old Shoreham
14
September 2022
Scores
of hirundines
were spotted flying at low level, at Hawthorn
scrub height, from west to east over Mill
Hill, in the late afternoon about
five o'clock. Over two hundred birds in ten
minutes, flew over more rapidly than usual. They flew so quickly I had
difficulty recognising them to species in the fading light. Most of them
were Swallows
and there were almost certainly some House
Martins as well. I had never seen so many
together before.
Spotted
Flycatcher, Rosehips
Common
Blue Butterfly (fem)
Mill
Hill
Two
Spotted
Flycatchers were perched on top of some
scrub south-west of the top copse, appearing as silhouettes with the sun
behind them. It was way past roosting time for butterflies,
but I disturbed a few.
7 September
2022
Two
young Kestrels
windhovered in tandem over a breezy cloudy Mill
Hill.
6 September
2022
6 September
2022
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Adonis
Blue
An
Adonis
Blue was seen over the bottom of Anchor
Bottom. There may have been more than one,
Anchor
Bottom
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Nature Notes 2013 |
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