What to look out for this month

Berries are already hanging heavy on trees and providing plenty of food for birds and other animals to fatten up before the cold weather heads our way. September is a great month for migrating species and living on the coast means we don’t know what may turn up. As you say goodbye to the last of the Swifts, Swallows and Wheatears, look out for winter visitors appearing from the north and east.

What to spot this month

  • Blackberries
  • Sloes
  • Spiders
  • Migrating birds
  • Conkers
  • Craneflies
  • Giant Puffball fungi
  • Fleabane
  • Autumn Ladies Tresses
  • Knopper Galls

Tell us what you've seen

There are many more species to be spotted this month so keep your eyes peeled and don’t forget to submit your sightings via iRecord. These records are then shared with the Sussex Biodiversity Records Centre, who hold species data for the county.

Sussex Wildlife Trust nature reserves to visit this month

Ebernoe Common is a superb example of a Low Weald woodland with a history of traditional use. For centuries it was wood pasture, where commoners would turn out their cattle or pigs to graze and browse on young trees and scrub, beech mast and acorns, or on the grassy meadows in clearings. An incredible site for bats, fourteen of the eighteen species of British bats have been recorded here, at least nine of which have maternity roosts including the rare Barbastelle and Bechstein’s bats. Ebernoe is fantastic for spotting late orchids and other woodland and meadow flowers, rare fungi and lichens.

Sussex Wildlife Trust Courses

See what events and courses Sussex Wildlife Trust are running this month.






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