Friday 5 February 2016

Under the Pier you can....

....catch Velvet Swimming Crabs, Shore crabs, hairy crabs and maybe a Spiney spider crab.  Masked Crabs can be seen at very low water and they walk backwards into their burrows.  Mussels, limpets, barnacles, oysters and sea anemones cling to the structure and you can see them at low water.

Jetsam discarded from fishing boats and passing ships adorn the structure.  Turnstones live on the Pier except when breeding and pick crustaceans and seaweed off the bracing and columns and all along on the beach.

In the evening Starlings used gather to Murmurate at the end of the Pier.

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