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A natural history of Runswick Bay: Alum works and a hemi-parasitic plant.
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Guide to Runswick Fossils. Alum works and a hemi-parasitic plant. A clifftop walk past Kettleness, with views over the remains of the alum works. You can see the remains of walls, and the semicircle to the right of the gulls is the remains of a cistern. The fields along the clifftop walk were bordered by yellow rattle ( Rhinanthus minor. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). North York Moors Wildlife Blogger. See my monthly column about the Yorkshire coast in Dalesman Magazine. Peter McGrath has been walki...
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A natural history of Runswick Bay: Right! Off to the beach.
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Guide to Runswick Fossils. Off to the beach. In the meantime, have a beadlet anemone and some green seaweed. Probably Ulva lactuca. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). North York Moors Wildlife Blogger. See my monthly column about the Yorkshire coast in Dalesman Magazine. Follow us on Twitter. Join us on a Guided Walk. One of the top 20 places to live in Britain, according to the Sunday Times. Well, tell us something we didn't know. Subscribe to Runswick Bay. Runswick Bay Rescue Boat. All content on this...
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A natural history of Runswick Bay: Runswick's stolen cycads and a history of the North Sea in July's Dalesman,
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Guide to Runswick Fossils. Runswick's stolen cycads and a history of the North Sea in July's Dalesman,. All in the Yorkshire Coast column in your mind-feeding July edition of The Dalesman. The magazine opens with a glorious picture of a ketch at anchor in Runswick by photographer Stephen Garnett. The perfect calm, Runswick Bay. 163;290 from all good newsagents, or if you live in Barbaria (any county or country where The Dalesman is not to be had as a matter of course), you can subscribe. An independent r...
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A natural history of Runswick Bay: Wildflowers, pyritic nodules and splash zone algae.
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Guide to Runswick Fossils. Wildflowers, pyritic nodules and splash zone algae. Mud and soil washed down the cliff has made enough of a bed of soil for these flowers to grow on, about 15 feet above the beach. The run off from the thin layer of soil has enough in it to sustain the green algae that usually grow in the splash zone - the bit of the beach above the high water mark that gets spray from breaking waves. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). North York Moors Wildlife Blogger. Follow us on Twitter.
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A natural history of Runswick Bay: Went for a long beach walk...
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Guide to Runswick Fossils. Went for a long beach walk. Between Port Mulgrave and Runswick Bay today. Lots of things seen and fossils found (70 or so), more of which in a post tomorrow. Pic by my lovely wife. Who is an ace photographer). I mislaid my rock hammer somewhere on the walk. It's a Forge Steel, red and black handle with a chip out of the sharp bit) if you find it, you are welcome as long as you use it well. Here are a couple of anemones and in the middle a Pomatoceras triquiter. Staying in Runsw...
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A natural history of Runswick Bay: It is blowing an absolute hooley here...
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Guide to Runswick Fossils. It is blowing an absolute hooley here. Thanks to this low pressure system which is giving us 45 mph winds and horizontal rain. Cliffs will get wet and collapse, beaches will be churned up. Jolly good. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). North York Moors Wildlife Blogger. See my monthly column about the Yorkshire coast in Dalesman Magazine. Follow us on Twitter. Join us on a Guided Walk. Subscribe to Runswick Bay. Runswick Bay Rescue Boat. The Dispersal of Darwin. All content on...
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A natural history of Runswick Bay: Laminaria: never seen this before.
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Guide to Runswick Fossils. Laminaria: never seen this before. I've probably seen more Laminaria digitata. Than most people who don't look at kelp for a living. But I've never seen this:. It was a venerable kelp, mature and home to parasitic red algae and barnacles on its stipe (the stalk):. The holdfast (the roots, bit that anchored the kelp to the rock substrate) had its usual alien appearance; the white cones are barnacles over which the holdfast has grown over the 6 years of its life. Cliffe Lea bed a...
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A natural history of Runswick Bay: Guide to Runswick Fossils
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Guide to Runswick Fossils. Guide to Runswick Fossils. Coiled up things. In life they would probably have had something resembling a squid's head sticking out of the open end of the coiled up shell. If you are lucky you will find a whole ammonite loose on the beach, but often you will find it partly encased in a hard rock nodule. You'll also see crescent shaped ammonite fragments. Bullet shaped or cylindrical fragments (the rostrum) or something that looks banded (the phragmacone). Follow us on Twitter.
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A natural history of Runswick Bay: Runswick seagulls not behaving badly.
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Guide to Runswick Fossils. Runswick seagulls not behaving badly. Seagulls were very much in the news in the news last week. One delinquent attacked and killed a tortoise, another savaged a small dog and a third pecked someone on the head in an attack, the victim said, reminiscent of Hitchcock's 'The Birds'. The Prime Minister was even moved to comment. Away as seagulls tried to nick his chips. Lo and behold they did! My wife (who blogs rather beautifully here. Went to try out The Magpie Cafe's. North Yor...
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A natural history of Runswick Bay: Coprolites and an Eleganticeras.
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Guide to Runswick Fossils. Coprolites and an Eleganticeras. Jurassic fossil excrement and an Eleganticeras. Ammonite from last week's walk between Port Mulgrave and Runswick. And some lucky soul found a large Sauropod vertebra on Whitby beach. Cue comparisons to Jurassic Park. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). North York Moors Wildlife Blogger. See my monthly column about the Yorkshire coast in Dalesman Magazine. Follow us on Twitter. Join us on a Guided Walk. Subscribe to Runswick Bay. All content on ...
