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Stephen walks around his local patch once or twice a week throughout the year. He looks and listens carefully to discover the wild creatures hidden in the reedbed and surrounding woods.
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Water vole by Terry Whittaker/2020VISION
Stephen walks around his local patch once or twice a week throughout the year. He looks and listens carefully to discover the wild creatures hidden in the reedbed and surrounding woods.
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Have you ever seen those dark red jelly blobs whilst rockpooling? These incredible creatures are beadlet anemones! They live attached to rocks all around the coast of the UK, the base of their…
This strange furry creature often found washed ashore after storms is actually a kind of worm!
This colonial creature looks like an old-fashioned quill - that's where the name sea pen comes from.
This sponge is found on rocky shores around the UK and looks like a thick bready crust (if you use your imagination a bit!).
There are all kinds of wonderful creatures that live in rockpools. Here's how to meet them!
This worm builds its own home out of bits of shell and sand. It can be spotted on the shore all around the UK.
The Common harvestman is familiar to us as the large, spindly spider-like creature that frequents gardens and houses. It predates on smaller invertebrates which it catches using hooks on the ends…
Despite appearances, this weird and wonderful creature is not a jellyfish! They're sometimes found washed up on our shores after westerly winds. Look but don't touch - they give a very…