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Tag Archives: tideline
Neaps and Springs: high highs, low highs, and high or low lows.
During the biggest Spring tides of the year, often in September, the height of the water in the Solway Firth might change by almost 10 metres – that’s nearly 33 feet – during the course of one tidal cycle. And … Continue reading
Posted in Allonby, Marine Conservation Zone, rowing, Sabellaria, honeycomb worm, Spring & Neap Tides, tidelines
Tagged guided walks, sea-level changes, skiff, tideline
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Hunting for ‘guggies’, and finding ‘canoes’, on the Galloway shore
We went to the Scottish side of the Solway Firth to hunt for a boring mollusc. Or, rather more accurately, for the empty shells of a marine snail, Natica monilifera, known variously as the Necklace Shell, the beaded Nerite, or … Continue reading
Posted in shells, tidelines
Tagged dog-whelks, Gosse, Luce Bay, Natica, shells, the Mull of Galloway, tideline
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The balance sheet between blue and green
‘A thin blue line’. Of policemen edging a protest march? The blue halo of Earth’s fragile atmosphere as seen from space? No – in this case, a blue line that Robert Alcock painted along a sea-wall in Bilbao in 2011, … Continue reading
Posted in coal, The 'Energy Coast', tidelines
Tagged climate change, coal, sea-level changes, tideline
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Dune walk (with one diversion)
My guided shore-walks are ‘vertical’, from the bottom to the top of the shore – we usually spend a lot of time looking at the animals near the low water mark, with diversions on the way back to see the … Continue reading
Posted in dunes, sand, tidelines
Tagged butterflies, dunes, lugworms, marram, sand, sandmartins, shore-walks, tideline
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Boring molluscs and bevelled edges
Dog-whelks, Nucella lapillus, were clustered on the mid-shore rocks in late April; singles, twos and threes, they were apparently uninterested in the barnacles beneath their feet, but were there to socialise or, more specifically, to meet partners of the opposite … Continue reading
Posted in shells, tidelines
Tagged dog-whelks, Gosse, mussels, Natica, shells, shore-walks, tideline
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Tidelines
At its highest point on the shore, the turning tide writes a description of the day. Tidelines are historical records: of the lives of plants and animals, and of their deaths; of weather – storms and floods – local and … Continue reading
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