Thursday, September 04, 2014

RSPB Mersehead- 31st August 2014

The last day of August and a beautiful sunny day so we headed down to Mersehead for a walk along the beach and to see how the dunes were recovering from the winter storms.1-Peacock-Butterfly

Peacock butterfly

2-Mersehead-sign

Mersehead sign

3-Mersehead-beach

The dunes are showing signs of recovery

4-Mersehead-beach

 

5-wing

 

6-Mike-Mersehead-Beach

Deserted!

7-Mersehead-beach

 

8-sea-rocket

Sea Rocket is growing well again now

9-small-copper-on-sea-rocket

Small Copper on Sea Rocket

10-Mersehead-beach

 

11-Mersehead-beach

The Marram Grass is growing back which will help the dunes to form

12-Robin-Rigg

Offshore windfarm Robin Rigg in the background

13-Mersehead-beach

 

14-Mersehead-beach

 

15-Mersehead-beach

 

16-Mersehead-beach

Windswept

17-Mersehead-beach

White sand formed by crushed cockle shells

18-feather

Gull feather

A short video about the dunes

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