seaside

common cockle Cerastoderma edule pair of shells from one animal, cut to white

European Rockpool diagram showing lots of shoreline crustaceans, bivalves, anenomes, and gastropods, sea weeds, and background

Salt marsh landscape showing mud and a cross section of the snails and invertebrates who live here, wading and predatory birds above in the glasswort and aquatic plants; further away from the salt estuary are soft cliffs and the distant sea

Sanderling Calidris alba standing in a rockpool with seaweed covered stones on a beach with lots of other wading birds behind and distant sea view of a rocky coast

Sanderling Calidris alba

Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus in amongst typical coastal plants of the Pembrokeshire coast including squill, thrift, kidney vetch, daisies, and lichen with a second bird flying behind

Little tern Sternula albifrons flying over a beach with marram grass on dunes, shingelo behind, and distant hills on the horizon

Herring gull Larus argentatus eating a chip from the road in a seaside urban setting

Black headed gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus with winter and summer head plumage