Bill on the Sea Shore

........The Way down to the Shore...."Lichen, on a piece of dead Blackthorn –a plant environment making home for mites, fungus and bacteria, all living commensalistically in an environment usually too harsh to provide home to individual species".

....Our large tidal range is responsible for great diversity of life on our shores — far greater in spectrum, than anywhere else in Europe ................"Conger Eel" describes a number of species. That illustrated is Conger conger a sub-tidal Zone Fish, that might just be found in lower shore, very large rock-pools. The young stay close to shore and may live in the shelter of piers and break waters but mature adults can live at great depth, in the ocean, and grow heavier than a man! The reproduce only once, maturing from five years old and laying more than 3 million eggs. Their preferred food is shell fish, squid and octopus............

A guide to discovering some of the plants and creatures living on more than eight-thousand miles of Britain’s harshest environment- our coast.