And so it begins!
Sixty years ago on Filey Brigg in East Yorkshire I discovered brittle stars. They are different from the more familiar starfish in that they have very long, thin flexible arms. They wave their arms about to swim.
Family holiday in early 1950s
And here I am 60 years later on Filey Brigg. There was a super moon the night before, pulling the tide down the into the kelp beds.
We looked around in the rock pools and found shore crabs, hermit crabs, limpets, periwinkles, shrimps, a butterfish also called a gunnel and a common star fish.
I didn’t find any brittle stars but you can find out about them and other starfish here.
Out on the Brigg
A shrimp.
A shore crab
Trace fossils of shrimp burrows.
A common starfish.
