Birds, Leps, Observations & Generalities - the images and ramblings of Mark Skevington. Sometimes.
Showing posts with label Dog Whelk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dog Whelk. Show all posts

Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Cockles and Mussles .....

On Sunday we enjoyed a gloriously sunny and hot day on the beach at Woolacombe. Lots of others did aswell, but it's a big beach and there's plenty of room. I can only stand sitting/lying/sleeping on a beach for so long though, and inbetween ferrying kids to and from the sea I spent some time pottering about the rock pools. No idea what I'm looking at in the main, but enjoyable nonetheless. I did find a couple of small fish and shrimps but with no net it was impossible to catch them for a shot. Here's far too many photos interspersed with one or two beach/sea themed tracks.









Bladder Wrack Spiral Wrack!





A feeding Beadlet Anemone

Beadlet Anemone out of water

Acorn Barnacles

Common Limpet


This is like a big coastal woodlouse, known as a Sea Slater (Ligia oceanica) - this one was about an inch long, which is not the biggest!


Blue Mussels



Presume this is a cockle shell

Dog Whelk

Found this Dog Whelk with odd pink bits stuck to it ...

..then found a load of the pink bits which I think are Dog Whelk eggs

Some sort of snail or Periwinkle