Friday 16 May

Knott End on Sea

 Caravans

Common Blue Butterfly

Knott End and Estuary View

Meg wanted to take her find home

Sea Potato

They are washed up in numbers at certain times

Take Care

Wednesday 14 May

Good Morning at Knott End on Sea

 Birdsfoot Trefoil - Lotus corniculatus

 Chives - Allium schoenoprasum

 Chives - Allium schoenoprasum

 Common Scurvey Grass - Cochlearia officinalis

 Dovesfoot Cranesbill - Geranium molle

Looking toward Fleetwood

View over the bay towards Cumbria

Saltmarsh & across Morecambe Bay toward the nuclear power station - the windmills are much safer

Windmills in Morecambe Bay

 Red Valerian - Centranthus ruber

 Rhododendron - Rhododendron ponticum

 Snow-in-summer - Cerastium tomentosum

Wild Radish - Raphanus raphanistrum

Take Care

Tuesday 16 July

Glorious morning on the beach and salt marsh at Knott End on Sea.

 The salt marsh has some wonderful plants.

 Arnold & Meg heading for the steps to the wall, there are lots of these sets of steps set along the wall, the tide comes into the bay quickly and surprises us sometimes, so we are grateful for the steps.

Waiting for me to catch up, that's the usual old story.

Looks bleak but it's teeming with life, even the rabbits come on the marsh.

Take Care.

Sunday 9 June

This shows just how quiet and deserted the beach is.

The only company we have - our shadows 

Take Care.

Monday 30 July

Dry sunny morning rained later

 Burnet Moth

 Horses on the beach

Meg wanting to go on the beach

Take Care

Friday 29 July

Another dry morning.

 Lords-and-Ladies - Arum maculatum we don't often see the seed heads.

 Lords-and-Ladies - Arum maculatum 

Knott End again.

Sand castles not a common sight now a days

 Sea Aster - Aster tripolium

 Spear-leaved Orache - Atriplex prostrata

Wall Barley - Hordeum murinum

Take Care.

Saturday 23 July

Sunny & Warm at Knott End

Beach & Salt Marsh

Bladder Wrack - Fucus vesiculocus

Brown Lipped Snail

Green Shore Crab - Carcinus maenas

Knott End Views

Knott End Views

Knotted Wrack - Ascophyllum nodosum

Wild Carrot - Daucus carota subsp. carota has a very noticeable red flower - some are so pale you miss them.

Take Care.

Saturday 11 June

Warm & Sunny at Knott End and the whole beach to ourselves.

 Beach Scene looking toward the Sea Wall

 Beach Scene - to the left are apartment shells that have never been touched for years, the housing climate has been poor - they may never be completed. The building to the right is the North Euston Hotel in Fleetwood

 Beach Scene - Fleetwood

 Beach Scene - Fleetwood

 Black Medick - Medicago lupulina

 Cat's Ear - Hypochoeris radicata

 Cat's Ear - Hypochoeris radicata

 Beach Scene - we did have to share the beach with the gulls. They would not even move for Meg.

 Long-headed Poppy - Papaver dubium subsp. dubium

 Long-headed Poppy - Papaver dubium subsp. dubium

 Long-headed Poppy - Papaver dubium subsp. dubium

Sea Purslane - Atriplex portulacoides

Take Care.