The Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.
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A small concretion that has eroded out of the sedimentary rock layers here on the shore. It possibly has a fossil inside, but I like it too much to break it open 
County Clare, Ireland.
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A juvenile Spider crab (Maja squinado). When fully grown, they are the largest crab species regularly found in Irish waters.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A closer look at some bits of Honeycomb Reef.
Formed by Honeycomb Reef worms (Sabellaria alveolata).
County Clare, Ireland.
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A Beadlet Anemone (Actinia equina) With its blue beads (stinging cells) showing nicely. They use these on each other when jostling for position in rockpools.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Goniatite fossils, formed over 300 million years ago, looking almost as surprised to see me as I was them 
County Clare, Ireland.
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Seapinks (Armeria maritima) beginning to peek out along the Burren shoreline.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A King Scallop (Pecten maximus) shell.
County Clare, Ireland.
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An almost perfectly circular Septarian nodule. Looking like lightening trapped in a pebble, these are actually fossilized mud bubbles.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A pretty pebble from a Cliff-side stormbeach.
Formed by volcanic activity in present day County Galway millions of years ago, dragged South by glaciers during the last iceage thousands of years ago and more recently shaped and polished by Atlantic waves.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.
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A Razorbill (Alca torda) beak. This adult was killed and eaten by a Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) with just the beak left behind. A bit grizzly but a perfect chance to get a closer look. The feathers feel like velvet!!
County Clare, Ireland.
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The night sky in a sea polished pebble - complete with stars and spiraling galaxies.
Mostly fossilized Goniatite shells.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A Sandalled anemone (Actinothoe sphyrodeta) sitting in rockpool. A mini explosion of colour.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Look who was back on the Cliffs of Moher yesterday?
Always great to see the Puffins (Fratercula arctica) return to their breeding colonies for the season. Hopefully they have a good one 
County Clare, Ireland.
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Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.
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A Leptocephalus - They are a larval stage in an eels life cycle. This one seems to be of a Conger eel.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A teeny tiny Goniatite fossil. You can see the spaces where its gas filled flotation chambers would have been.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Low skies and silver seas at the Cliffs of Moher.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A "Leptocephalus" - this is a larval stage in the life cycle of an eel.
I'm not sure what species of eel this is - European freshwater eel (Anguilla anguilla) or a Conger (Conger conger). It's the first time I've seen one and for some reason had assumed they were much smaller.
County Clare, Ireland.
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