Bloody henry starfish
The bloody henry starfish is normally a bright purply-red colour and is found all around the UK.
The bloody henry starfish is normally a bright purply-red colour and is found all around the UK.
The brown shrimp blends perfectly with its seabed home and is found all around the coasts of the UK.
Oyster mushrooms are shell shaped fungi that grow in tiers or fabulous clusters on dead trees or stumps. Unlike many fungi, these mushrooms are not seasonal and can be found all year round,…
Sea lettuce is unmistakeable - most often a bright green and always translucent, it is found on all UK coasts.
Once a month, Robert attends his local Wildlife Watch group in Nottinghamshire. He’s been going for over a year now and has made lots of new friends; most of all, though, he loves how much he has…
The Common mussel is a familiar sight on shores all around the UK and is a favourite food of people, seabirds and starfish alike.
This worm builds its own home out of bits of shell and sand. It can be spotted on the shore all around the UK.
The nodding, blue bells of the harebell are a summer delight of grasslands, sand dunes, hedgerows and cliffs. They are attractive to all kinds of insects, too.
Greater burdock is familiar to us as the sticky plant that children delight in, frequently throwing the burs at each other. It actually uses these hooked seed heads to help disperse its seeds.
A plant of chalk and limestone grasslands and sand dunes, Yellow-wort has butter-yellow flowers. Its distinctive leaves sit opposite each other, but are fused together around the stem.
This crab is common around all of the UK. If you've ever been rockpooling or crabbing, it's probably the shore crab that you've met.