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According to the Met Office, England and Wales and had their wettest March since 1981,…

Found this little creature on the beach north of Blackpool this morning while out walking…

Guillemot. Not sure if he’d taken a wrong turn and was having a rest, or…

Isle of Man at sunset; we had previously been looking in the wrong direction!

I made the most of the early good weather by spending a few hours litterpicking…

Thousands of tiny cockle shells left by the tide (high tide 1102: 8.35m).

We’ve had some fantastic sightings of various litter items and marine species that have washed…

Lots of tiny heart urchins (sea potatoes) left by the tide. Covered with hairy spines…

Black-headed gull with prominent ring marking. A colour-ringing research project by Waterbird Colour-Marking Group is…

An ever-growing accumulation of pebbles. Fascinating. Wonder how far they’ve travelled to end up lodged…

From a distance spotted what might be the regular peregrine. Through binoculars it was an…

The perks of beach cleaning! A bumble bee enjoying a bit of Sea Holly

A windy and cold August morning with the Rossall Beach Group. Dead harbour porpoise and…

Big log washed up on a slightly overcast looking Rossall Beach at Cleveleys

Seal of approval! The perks of beach cleaning… occasionally you find yourself in the right…

‘Sunset Silhouettes’

A growing pebble bank on the shore at Granny’s Bay. Pebbles slowly being pushed by…

With easterly and northerly winds for a few days the sea is looking really lovely…

My home town Blackpool

I thought this might be of interest as there were two washed up in the…

Work continues shifting sand from St Annes beach to create a sandy beach at Fairhaven….

Low tide 0.50m at 08:03 on 31/03/21. The last deep channel marker of the River…

The limestone in the new rock armour is eroding quite badly whereas the granite and…

Rather rare view of the pier base. Low tide and low sand allow a good…

Two strandlines: one strewn with cuttle-bones (internal shell of a cuttlefish), and the other empty…

Sand and gravel being scooped out to reveal the toe.

A LOT of Cuttlefish shells along the high water line on the 17/3.

Not very clear but even more Cuttlefish on the incoming tide…

Gun pit again, 2 weeks later. About 4 feet of gravel deposited by the strong…

From the promenade at Lytham: pebble foreshore, saltmarsh, sandy/muddy estuary, River Ribble, Irish Sea. Lots…

High tide 10:33. 8.55m. A choppy sea washes over the saltmarsh. Plenty of birdlife: oystercatchers,…

Looking towards Winter Hill from the beach beyond St Annes saltmarsh. Will these individual clumps…

Jack digging a series of test pits to see how deep the sand deposits were…

Sequence of pictures from Groyne G12 showing the speed at which the tide is coming…

River Ribble looking towards Lytham. Incoming tide attracts waders (sanderling) scuttling at the water’s edge…

Looking towards new sea defences at Fairhaven Lake. Medium-sized sand dunes and saltmarsh (right). High…