WILDLIFE IN AND AROUND OUR COASTAL SEAS
- Gannet
- Herring Gull eating a large crab
- Compass Jellyfish
- Jellyfish
- Beadlet anemones
- Hermit crabs
- Sponge
- Various algae (seaweed)
- Algae and sponges
- Dog whelks and other shellfish
- Sand Mason Worm case
- Green Leaf Worm
- Peregrine Falcon feeding its young on a cliff edge
- Chough live on cliffs
- Pair of Eider Ducks
- Herring Gull with a crab
- Guillemots on the Farne Islands
- Kittiwakes
- Kittiwakes on the Farne Islands
- Puffin
- Cormorant on the Farne Islands
- Sandwich Tern with fish
- Grey Seals
- Herring Gull eating a Guillemot chick
- Dunlin
- Turnstone
- Oystercatchers, Bar-tailed Godwit & Gulls
FACT FOR THE DAY:
Did you know that . . . .
. . . there are 25 species of breeding seabirds, 26 species of marine mammals and more than 60 species of edible fish (including crabs, shellfish etc) around our British coasts.