Gardening with Nature in mind
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I have gathered the species details from the nature gallery and compiled a list that can be used as a check list for species found in Lancing.
It is not meant to be a comprehensive list but represents those I have photographed to date.
List details
http://www.lancing-nature.bn15.net/specieslist.html
We completed the RSPB national Big Garden Birdwatch on Saturday.
Our result is as follows:
Collared Dove = 2
Goldfinch = 2
Great Tit = 2
House Sparrow = 15
Starling = 8
Outside the timed hour a Wren hopped in and out
On Southwick Hill behind the Marks & Spencer superstore, there is a tunnel, it is apparently there to allow small mammals to get under the A27 bypass.
The intended mammal is most likely the Badger although there were no obvious clues that any Badgers were using it. There is a worn trail in the grass but this could have been made by a fox.
A fox may not have wished to use the tunnel to get to the other side of the road but it would make a good shelter.
The first sighting of a Hoverfly of 2006. This looks like a female Eupeodes luniger.
In the front garden I have a large flowering South African perennial Euryops pectinatus, the daisy flowers provide a useful food source when little else is available.
The day was sunny and ambient temp was around 10C on the warm, south facing wall.
The fly was a little sluggish and spent a few moments warming on the wall before returning to feed.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/UK-Hoverflies/
A Goldcrest, Regulus regulus, was seen as it hopped around the branches
of a twisted Hazel tree in the garden.
The markings were not distinct, it may have been immature.
This is remarkable in that it coincides with a sighting last year
17 January 2006
My first butterfly and my first large insect of the year was seen flying in of the beach and sea over the fringes of Widewater Lagoon at 2:00 pm. Alas, it was so sudden and disappeared so quickly I could not be positive of its identity. It was probably a Red Admiral but it was just conceivable it could have been a Small Tortoiseshell or even a Peacock Butterfly. The air temperature was 11.1 ºC. There was no definite proof that this was an immigrant butterfly as it could have been a hibernating butterfly that had flown out from under the eaves of the nearby houses to the north, flown south and then north again against the Light Breeze from the north-west. From previous experience in late autumn, there was good chance it was an immigrant though.
Adur Butterfly & Large Moth List
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Butterfly-list2006.html
Adur Butterfly Flight Times
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Butterflies1X.htm
A welcome show of sun today after a dull and damp start. Quite warm at about 9C.
The Lancing Nature web site has grown too big for the web space provided by host NTL, and so a new server has been found.
With the generous assistance of Sompting based Completely Computers who run the www.bn15.co.uk website I have copied the site to lancing-nature.bn15.net
The NTL based site will remain in place for the time being.
The additional space will allow me to integrate the best bits of the old Lancing Village pages, updated to a fresh layout, while continuing to develop the nature gallery collection.
Happy New Year to all, this was the Dewpond on the 28th December during the brief cold spell.
The surface is frozen and has a dusting of snow over the ice, some of which has melted causing the odd patterns.
My Dewpond gallery
This one is Philodromus dispar, a crab spider, it was seen crawling up the lounge wall.
This recent eight legged visitor to the bathtub is a female Steatoda nobilis spider
