Thursday 12 June 2014

Thursday 12th June

Sunny, very light SW wind

New South Promenade
Grey seal
50 gannets
Dead mens fingers - a soft coral
Many sea gooseberries
Many sand gobies
Unidentified swimming crab
Unidentified fish - Sand smelt?
Dab
Many Necklace Shell egg starnds
Ragworm
Largest beadlet anemone recorded here so far c7-8cm across extended tentacles


Unidentified swimming crab - note the paddle like hind legs
Heron's Reach golf course
2 pairs of great crested grebes with 1 juv & 2 juvs
4-spotted caser dragonflies
Several speckled wood butterflies

North shore
Tope
Shelduck
Pied wagtail taking food to nestlings on cliffs
25 Manx shearwaters
17 gannets

Marton Mere LNR
Pair great crested grebes with 2 juvs