St Cyrus National Nature Reserve
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Scottish Natural Heritage has a visitor centre at St Cyrus from where you can enjoy all that St Cyrus has to offer! Fantastic visitor centre, beach, with a free car park.
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Last week's mystery cetacean is still refusing to yield its secrets. The museum picked it up thinking it might be a beluga whale carcass, a real rarity on the Scottish coast. On closer inspection they're sure it's not. The current theory is that it's a massive bottlenose dolphin with some spinal deformities. We'll keep you updated. Anyway, it's What-is-it-Thursday. So what is it, please? (Obviously it's a crab, but what kind?)
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On Monday we had Joe and Bob down clearing some of the gorse from the north end of the reserve. This is to make space for rock-rose (Helianthemum) which is the only food plant of northern brown argus larvae, one of our rarer butterfly species.
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Well done to everyone who guessed that last week's What-is-It-Thursday was a carrion crow footprint. This week we've got something a bit more grim. So what's this beast that washed up on the beach last week?
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It's Thursday again already. For one week only What-is-It Thursday will be replaced with What-did-It Thursday. So what's left these footprints all over our nice tidy beach?
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Lots of cuttlebones on the strand line today. Cuttlebones are the modified internal shells of cuttlefish, used as buoyancy organs. They're also favoured by birds as a source of calcium. Pictures here next to a completely average-sized man's hand for scale.
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It's Thursday again. And we're all now well aware of what that means. What-Is-It Thursday. So what is it, please?
Alan
Thanks Alan brilliant photo 😊
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Nurdles aren't nearly as fun as their name makes them sound. When released into the marine environment, these tiny pellets used in plastic production concentrate toxins and pollutants, allowing the toxins to be swallowed more easily by animals. If you're at St. Cyrus next weekend, consider joining the Great Winter Nurdle Hunt to help FIDRA find out how widespread the problem is in Scotland.
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It's time for What-is-It Thursday, an established and well-loved tradition for nearly a week and a half. So what is it?
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Thanks so much to all the folks who bagged up rubbish on the beach. Three trailer loads!
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Busy day for us on the reserve with lots of paper work at this time of year but all so worth it with views like this!
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For our first What-Is-That Thursday: a relic that I found near the waterfall this morning. Anyone care to venture a guess?
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