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Tiny gastropods & pitted barnacles at Winspit
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If you get on your hands and knees to peer closely at the acorn barnacles high up on rocky shores, especially in the splash zone, you may be surprised to see tiny gastropod molluscs on them, between them, and even sheltering inside their empty cases. Some of these molluscs look like smooth, dark grey grape pips. ...4 days ago -
Thongweed: perennial discs & fertile straps
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Masses of the olive-green seaweed, commonly known as Thongweed, are a frequent sight on the seashores along the Jurassic Coast. The Latin name for this type of brown alga is Himanthalia elongata (Linnaeus) Gray. These tangled stringy heaps represent just a part of the whole seaweed. They are the ...6 days ago -
Fossil wood grain patterns from Lyme Regis (natural colouration)
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These photographs illustrate details of a piece of fossil wood. This was found in a smooth limestone boulder on Monmouth Beach at Lyme Regis in Dorset. The fossil is shown with its natural colour of buffs, greys and black. These images were previously shown with digital colouration to maximise the effect of the ...1 week ago -
Fossil wood grain patterns from Lyme Regis (digitally coloured)
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These photographs show the intricate patterns of wood grain in a piece of fossil wood. The fossil was about 60 centimetres long and embedded in a large rounded limestone boulder on Monmouth Beach at Lyme Regis in Dorset. Fossil wood is frequently found on this stretch of seashore along with the large ammonites and ...1 week ago -
Rock layer patterns from the Jurassic Coast
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A huge variety of rock strata is exposed along the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in the UK. You do not need to be a geologist to appreciate them. They have a beauty all their own. The colours, textures, designs, and structures are wonderful. On vertical and horizontal surfaces. The way they crack, the way they ...1 week ago -
Beach Art 11 – Seaweed Mermaid
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“Thank you” to the unknown creator of this seaweed lady on the shingle at Ringstead Bay, Dorset. I love her bottle top eyes and the clever use of the kelp holdfasts at the end of long stipes for her elegant arms. © Jessica Winder and Jessica’s Nature Blog, 2009. Unauthorised use and/or duplication of ...1 week ago -
Trace fossils in Winspit rocks
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Trace fossils are geological records of biological activity. The rocks at Winspit in Dorset have preserved evidence of the burrowing habits of invertebrate animals that once lived in the soft wet sediments on the seabed and seashore of shallow seas over 135 million years ago in the Upper Jurassic period. These ...1 week ago -
Seven small rockpools at Winspit
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Small rock pools are scattered across the rock ledge at Winspit. Some are shallow and others are deep. Some are on the general surface and others are embedded in rock clefts. Most are rounded in outline but a few are differently shaped. Some of the pools shown here seem almost like the shape of an eye or a mouth. ...1 week ago -
Little Egret at Arne
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When I wrote the previous post, I made an error and called the long-legged white bird I had seen on the saltmarsh at Arne by the wrong name. I’ve corrected it now – at least I think I am right in calling it a Little Egret ( Egretta garzetta ). A diagnostic yellow foot is just about visible behind the reeds in ...2 weeks ago -
Sika deer and sea birds at Arne
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This charming young buck Sika deer was feeding by the path. I was walking through the woodland at Arne to reach the water’s edge at Shipstal Point on the South side of Poole Harbour in Dorset. There are lots of deer on this RSPB nature reserve. This one had already broken one of its antlers. Whether that was in a ...2 weeks ago -
Floating Japweed at Ringstead Bay
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Looking like a wonderful blue carpet with a golden fern pattern, Japweed Sargassum muticum (Yendo) Fensholt, was particularly decorative at Ringstead Bay in Dorset one hot July day. Here are some photographs of this alien species of seaweed floating near the surface in still, shallow water near the beach. The ...2 weeks ago -
A Snakelocks Anemone wafting in the waves
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The Snakelocks Anemone, Anemonia viridis (Forskal), has long. velvety grey-green tentacles with purple tips. This series of photographs shows one of these delightful seashore creatures in a rock pool at Ringstead Bay in Dorset. It was a beautiful, warm, sunny day and the sea water was softly lapping at the rocky ...2 weeks ago -
Views of South Beach, Studland, in November
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Even on a bleak, late November afternoon, Studland Bay is magnificent. Each part of Studland has a really different character. As black clouds and heavy rain passed over South Beach last week, the dramatic dark sky temporarily opened to allow passage of a shaft of sunlight. Dodging the raindrops, and with much ...2 weeks ago -
Big Quahog Clam at Studland Bay
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In the heavy, squally rain of last Friday, I found this really large and weighty living specimen of bivalved mollusc washed up on the sand at Studland Bay’s South Beach, Dorset. It doesn’t look like a common British species on account of its great size…and it isn’t. It is a Quahog – Mercenaria mercenaria ...2 weeks ago -
Pebbles made of iron
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Immediately recognisable because of their heavy weight, nodules of iron pyrites commonly weather out of the cliff face rocks along the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, UK. The top photograph shows an arrangement of iron pyrites pebbles from the seashore at Charmouth. These metal pebbles are composed of a mixture of iron ...3 weeks ago -
Natural pattern of seaweed on rock (5)
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A frond of the brown seaweed Sea Oak, Halidrys siliquosa (Linnaeus) Lyngbye on limestone rock platform at Kimmeridge, Dorset, UK, on the Jurassic Coast. © Jessica Winder and Jessica’s Nature Blog, 2009. Unauthorised use and/or duplication of this material, including both text and photographs, without express ...4 weeks ago -
Beach Art 6 – Driftwood & Stone Sculpture
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Maybe created by a single artist, or perhaps evolved through the contributions of many beach strollers. This huge driftwood tree bole and roots, capped with a pyramid of pebbles and cobbles, looked spectacular and cairn-like on the seashore at Lyme Regis in Dorset. © Jessica Winder and Jessica’s Nature Blog, ...4 weeks ago
