Saturday 6 January 2018

Seaham harbour

Popped into Seaham Harbour for an hour yesterday. More wind and rain and heavy seas, quite bracing.
Added another 27, common bits and pieces  but couldn't see anything in a few rockpools. Need to invest in a net and bucket me thinks.

 Amongst what I did see were -

Centranthus ruber (Red Valerian)

Petasites fragrans (Winter Heliotrope)



Redshank

Rock Pipit
Pelvetia canaliculata (Channelled Wrack)

Turnstone
Dilsea carnosa (Red Rags)
Ulva lactuca (Sea Lettuce)




Most interesting thing was probably a Black-headed Gull. Well, it did have a colour ring on. A Dark-green inscribed in white JM67 and seems to have been recorded quite frequently. It had been rung at Mølledammen in Norway in April 2015 and seen there till July, seen here at Seaham in September & November 2015, back in Norway April-May 2016. Seaham again November 2016 and again now.


New species for the list  were

Tringa totanus             Common Redshank
Charadrius hiaticula         Common Ringed Plover
Petasites fragrans          Winter Heliotrope
Veronica persica          Common Field-speedwell
Sonchus oleraceus          Smooth Sow-thistle
Geranium molle          Dove's-foot Crane's-bill
Rumex obtusifolius          Broad-leaved Dock
Sisymbrium officinale          Hedge Mustard
Malva sylvestris          Common Mallow
Agrostis stolonifera          Creeping Bent
Agrostis capillaris          Common Bent
Centaurea nigra          Common Knapweed
Cirsium vulgare         Spear Thistle
Plantago maritima         Sea Plantain
Honckenya peploides           Sea Sandwort
Senecio cineraria          Silver Ragwort
Sagina maritima         Sea Pearlwort
Tripleurospermum maritimum      Sea Mayweed
Festuca rubra             Red Fescue
Potentilla reptans          Creeping Cinquefoil
Dilsea carnosa             Red Rags
Pelvetia canaliculata          Channelled Wrack
Ulva lactuca             Sea Lettuce
Enteromorpha intestinalis      Gutweed
Semibalanus balanoides         Common Barnacle
Xanthoria parietina         a lichen
Ceratodon purpureus          Redshank
Bryum dichotomum         Bicoloured Bryum


Now at 83 species (1917 to go)

1 comment:

  1. Don't forget the Ramularia all over those heliotrope leaves - I can see plenty of it in your pic! :)

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