Saturday, May 31, 2014

Mersehead–19th April 2014

A lovely sunny day so we decided on a walk on the beach looking for shells at RSPB Mersehead, it turned into an interesting day!

1-yellowhammer

Yellowhammer from the Visitor Centre

2-Mersehead-Beach

Looks like snow but in fact its crushed cockle shells left by the storms.

3 Pete

The people in the background were lighting a fire on the edge of the dunes. There were 2 lots of fires near the dunes, this is an SSSI, I wish people would be more responsible!

3-Robin-Rigg

Robin Rigg and sparkling sea

4-bomb!

Oops, found a shell, but not quite what we were looking for! It was one of two so we called the Visitor Centre and they arranged for the police to check it out.

5-Small-tortoiseshell

Small Tortoiseshell

6-Police

The police have arrived

7-police

They closed the beach and waited for the bomb disposal team to arrive!

8-beetle

Willow Leaf Beetle (Lochmaea caprea)

weevil

Weevil

9-barnies

Still Barnies about

10-Mersehead

Evening light

11-Mersehead-Woods

Woodland path

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