waves

South Devon National Landscape generic seascape with pollinators & flowers

Blue mussels Mytilus edulis with byssal threads on wooden piling.  Illustration includes barnacles and limpets, and some bladder wrack seaweed.  Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books).

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