My school geography lessons included information about coastal features; including sea stacks, arches, caves, blowholes and geos. South Shields to Whitburn has them all.

Northern Marsh Orchid

Dactylorhyza purpurella

Painted Lady

An early one?

Good Dolphin action most mornings on the patch. Lots of fish in the area.

Thought I might buy a little dingy to do pelagics. This might be just the job!

Grasshopper Warbler

4 or 5 Territories on my patch.

Plaice

(the one with orange spots)

Now for the Chips?

Ragged Robin

Silene floscuculi

Red Campion

Silene dioica