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Southwick
Hill
including Slonk
Hill Farm,
Mossy Bottom,
New Erringham
and Thundersbarrow
Common Rock Rose
WILDLIFE REPORTS
7 November 2007
I disturbed a handful of male and female Pheasants near Slonk Hill Farm (north Shoreham). A medium-sized bird of prey glided over a large field (in pasture) to the east of the bridlepath north to Southwick Hill viewed from Stonechat Junction where Rock Rose was still in flower. The raptor was probably a female Kestrel, but it showed no signs of hovering and dived down in a curved flight (unlike the direct descent usual with Kestrels).
On Southwick Hill, Red Star Thistle (a Knapweed) was still in flower.
Adur Wild Flowers 2007
13 July 2007
I crossed the bridge over the A27 to take the footpath to New Erringham and Mill Hill passing by Slonk Hill Farm. The route past the farm was gated, so I saw my first Marbled White Butterfly of the day on the vegetation shorn detour (it is usually too overgrown). The bridlepath up to Stonechat Junction produced occasional Gatekeepers, Peacocks, and a fewLarge Whites, Meadow Browns and Small Tortoiseshells and one Comma Butterfly. By the time I had got to New Erringham Farm I had added Red Admirals and Small Skippers with another Marbled White on a Creeping Thistle on the side of the top road by New Erringham Farm.
Full Butterfly Report24 April 2007
A dog discovered a large Adder basking in the sun on Southwick Hill.Hearsay Report
16 April 2007
A passage rather than a leisurely trip on the bridlepath from Slonk Hill Farm to New Erringham Farm yielded just one Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly. A Swallow flew over the farm.
Link to 2005 Southwick Hill Reports
LINK TO THE REPORTS UP TO 2004
History of Lancing (Ray Hamblett)
Nature Notes for Lancing Ring
Lancing (RH)
Local Wildlife Links (SE England)
Adur Valley
Adur Butterfly Page
Adur Nature Notes 2005
Adur Valley Wildlife
Chalk Rivers Biodiversity (JNCC)
Cornwall (Geomorphology, Eclipse etc.)
Dungeness, Kent, England
Findon Village
Lancing & Sompting
Orford Ness: Coastal Ecology of a Shingle Bank (excellent references)
Ralph Hollins Nature Pages (Chichester Harbour area)
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
Rockpooling Page
Seashore Page
Shingle Coast (Coastal Fringe of Shoreham Beach)
Shoreham-by-Sea Wildlife Page
South Downs Way (by Allen Pollard)
Southwick
Sussex Archaeology & Folklore
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