Top, the hard shale beach with saw wrack (Fucus serratus with Spirorba borealis worms encrusted on their fronds) and in the overhang: barnacles (not up on barnacle species yet), dog whelk (white centre: Nucella lapillus), below it and to the right a periwinkle (Littorina sp.), lurking above and left of the whelk is the limpet Patella intermedia and the green seaweed Ulva lactuca lower right. This little community was on what I call belemnite flats, here today as the late afternoon sun burned the mist away:
Called belemnite flats for obvious reasons:
2 comments:
Nice Nucella!
Congrats on #100!
I'd advise against getting too familiar with barnacle species: Darwin spent eight years at it, which even he thought was rather overdoing it.
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