Two Little Egrets were feeding on the mud and water edge as the tide came in.
The Edible Crab Cancer pagurus, Spiny Spider Crabs Maja squinado, and Velvet Swimming Crabs Necora puber, collected for Adur World Oceans Day were returned to Kingston Beach.
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The
rubble covered tidal shore was inhabitated by scores of juvenile Blennies,
Lipophrys
pholis, that were common (over
a hundred) under rocks.
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There
were also hundreds of Shore Crabs Carcinus
maenas, as expected and a 5-Bearded
Rockling,
Ciliata mustela,
and a small Common Starfish,
Asterias
rubens, under the same boulder with
two Hairy Crabs,
Pilumnus
hirtellus and a small Edible
Crab. One miniature brittlestar
was discovered and this was a surprise.
BMLSS
Crabs
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A new plant in flower on the shingle of Kingston Buci Beach was the Bristly Ox-Tongue, Picris echioides. Great Lettuce, Lactuca virosa. PS: this looks like Prickly Lettuce, Lactuca serriola. |
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Far right: The leaves all seem to be pointing in a north-south compass alignment.