Shoreham weather station recorded a high of 11.3C but today in Lancing in the full sun it felt like a warm autumn day. You had to be in the sun because stepping into the shade and feeling the chill of the Northerly wind, 11.3 is much more realistic.
The garden birds seem to sense the oncoming winter. A feeder filled with Sunflower seed in the morning was emptied by lunchime, refilled it was almost empty again by late afternoon.
Greenfinch have until recently been uncommon, there were five competing with the 12 or so many Sparrows that have almost continuously feasted in this back garden.A pair of Goldfinch are pleasing to watch taking the opportunity of an easy meal from the feeders. There are some old Teasel heads in the garden which they sometimes perch on and tease out some small germ of seed from the spikey dry flower heads, they seem so much more hard work than the open window of the seed dispenser.
The flower garden by the Lancing war memorial is still blooming with summer bedding, a few flies were drawn by the bright colours.
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13 November 2004
With the sun very low in the clear blue autumnal sky, the temperature only reached 8.0 ºC, the coolest daytime temperature since 11 March 2004.
The wind chill and dew point is now below freezing in the early hours of the following morning, after midnight.
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