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The Shore

Yesterday Skye Nature Group went to Broadford Bay at low tide. We found lots of nice things such as the following – thanks to Seth Gibson for the images (see his blog of the event here):

Small-headed Clingfish – Apletodon dentatus
Macropodia rostrata – Long-legged spider crab
Grey Chiton – Lepidochitona cinerea

and the Eelgrass (Zostera marina) was looking good:

Zostera marina LR

So today I went to Eyre on Raasay at low water to see if I could find the source of Zostera wash-ups there. I found a nice piece with root (apologies for image quality):

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Unfortunately, it was not attached to the substrate. Today the tide was not as low as yesterday and there was quite a strong onshore wind driving the tide higher and making waves that beat wellies. I suspect that if I had gone yesterday and been able to wade a bit further out I would have found the source.

Anyway there were other things like several seven-armed starfish (Luidia ciliaris), something we didn’t see yesterday:

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2 Responses to “The Shore”

  1. Skye Nature Group Returns to the Sea | Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles Says:
    April 2, 2018 at 6:39 pm | Reply

    […] went back to Broadford Bay yesterday and found lots of things we hadn’t seen last time.  Such […]

  2. Eyre | Plants of Skye, Raasay & The Small Isles Says:
    March 22, 2019 at 9:04 am | Reply

    […] Raasay for another attempt to find the source of Zostera marina (Eelgrass) that washes up there. As last year, I failed. I am beginning to think the pieces washed up may come from Skye or Scalpay across the […]

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