My first Dalgety Bay Golden Plovers showed up after not seeing one in the previous 20 years. Yellowhammers, Skylarks, Reed Bunting, Snipe. A bonanza. Churlish to complain about the lack of Little Auk, LT Duck, Scoters, Gannet ... and where are those Fulmars? They should be here anyway!
Here's some pack ice in the bay - very bizarre
There's really too much to cover in individual shots so here's a small collection from the kelp bed sweep
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Watery wonderland |
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Water-loving things |
Numbers:
451 | * | fungus | Laboulbenia vulgaris | A fungus |
452 | coleoptera | Pterostichus strenuus | A ground beetle | |
453 | bird | Gallinago gallinago | Common Snipe | |
454 | flowering plant | Chamerion angustifolium | Rosebay Willowherb | |
455 | fungus | Trametes ochracea | A fungus | |
456 | lichen | Hypogymnia tubulosa | A lichen | |
457 | bird | Alauda arvensis | Skylark | |
458 | * | diptera | Nanocladius dichromus | A chironomid fly |
459 | bird | Anthus petrosus | Rock Pipit | |
460 | bird | Rissa tridactyla | Kittiwake | |
461 | bird | Uria aalge | Guillemot | |
462 | bird | Alca torda | Razorbill | |
463 | bird | Pluvialis apricaria | Golden Plover | |
464 | bird | Emberiza citrinella | Yellowhammer | |
465 | bird | Emberiza schoeniclus | Reed Bunting | |
466 | bird | Anthus pratensis | Meadow Pipit | |
467 | chordate | Ascidiella scabra | A sea squirt | |
468 | alga | Membranoptera alata | An alga | |
469 | alga | Corallina officinalis | Coral Weed | |
470 | mollusc | Cerastoderma edule | Common Cockle | |
471 | mollusc | Doris pseudoargus | Sea Lemon | |
472 | cnidarian | Dynamena pumila | A hydrozoan | |
473 | * | annelid | Eulalia viridis | Greenleaf worm |
474 | echinoderm | Ophiothrix fragilis | Common Brittlestar | |
475 | * | alga | Halidrys siliquosa | Sea Oak |
476 | * | alga | Palmaria palmata | Dulse |
477 | * | cnidarian | Obelia geniculata | A hydroid |
478 | * | alga | Rhodomela lycopodioides | A marine alga |
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