Siti and Amin love visiting Stocker’s Lake for a walk at the weekend. It’s just 15 minutes from where they live in Rickmansworth. The great outdoors is right on your doorstep.
Sea lettuce is unmistakeable - most often a bright green and always translucent, it is found on all UK coasts.
With its fluffy-looking, light blue flower heads, sheep's-bit is a pretty plant of dry grassland, heaths and clifftops. Sometimes carpeting an area, it is popular with nectar-loving insects…
This brown seaweed lives high up on rocky shores, just below the high water mark. Its blades are usually twisted, giving it the name Spiral Wrack.
Weasels may look adorable, but they make light work of eating voles, mice and birds! They are related to otters and stoats, which is obvious thanks to their long slender bodies and short legs.
These colourful little fish are a delight for snorkellers or shallow water divers to photograph, rarely being scared off by their presence!
This distinctive black and red bug is an increasingly common sight across much of Britain.
The thick topshell is a common sight on rocky shores in Wales and South West England.
This yellow-brown seaweed grows in tufts at the very top of rocky shores. Its fronds curls at the sides, creating the channel that gives Chanelled Wrack its name.
The fly-shaped flowers of this fascinating plant are attractive to insects - but not the ones you might expect!
