Thursday, 15 April 2021

Mary Anning Would Have Been Out, Like a Shot!

The biggest UK rock fall for 60 years, has occurred on Dorset's Jurassic Coast (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/15/jurassic-coast-cliff-collapses-in-biggest-uk-rockfall-for-60-years). The Jurassic Coast is a UNESCO World Hertitage site, where Victorian Mary Anning (subject of a recent film) collected fossils, to help develop the science of Palaeontology. The collapse, involving thousands of tonnes of fossil-bearing rocks, appears to be a consequence of the area drying out.

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Birder's Bonus 241

Noted a Curlew ( Numenius arquata ) on the Loughor estuary at Bynea.