Seabed habitats has a seminar series. Learn more about this important and essential aspect of the oceans - the tidepools that are near beaches and seacliffs, many of which have been wiped out in port and marina building.
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Showing posts with label sea cliffs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sea cliffs. Show all posts
4/22/23
8/15/20
LEARN ABOUT GULLS FROM SAVE COASTAL WILDLIFE ORG
SAVE COASTAL WILD LIFE ORG : HAVE WE MISSED THE POINT ABOUT SEAGULLS? by Joseph Reynolds
EXCERPT: Gulls are extraordinary birds. They are able to fly long distances and glide over the open ocean for hours in search of food. Gulls can fly as fast as 28 MPH. They can even drink salty ocean water when thirsty The birds have evolved to have a special pair of glands right above their eyes to flush the salt form their body through openings in their bill. This enables a gull to spend several days forging for food atop salty ocean waters without needing to return to land just to get a drink of freshwater...
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Check out this interesting article! Too often we forget that the birds we see around sea cliffs and beaches are part of the ocean ecology.
7/29/20
CLOSED BEACHES, STARVING WILDLIFE - MAYBE YOU CAN HELP
I haven't forgotten about you, my dear regular readers. SIREN'S LINK TO SEA has not forgotten all of you who home-school, or who have a project for school that you're doing some research on. I haven't forgotten about those of you who like to do art projects. Or those of you who like mermaids - and pirates.\
But like you, I've had to curb my activities in order to stay more secluded, and that includes not going to the beach.
The beach nearest me has been shut down and I just didn't care to take my chances and go there and encounter people who were not wearing masks, even though the media had so many photos of various celebrities taking that chance.
Hey, I need to get out of the house as much as anyone and I hate wearing a mask, I really do. I need the sun on my face. But until we know more, it certainly cannot hurt to wear a mask.
Finally, about a week ago, I went to the beach very early - sort of. I went to a sea cliff where there's a park. I had some cheese cracker snacks with me and some of them fell from my bag as I wrangled with my dog. My dog is also showing signs of being irritable and in need of more adventures. She was hyper excited because squirrels came running. We sat on a picnic bench and watched as a pack of crows, a pack of pigeons, and a pack of seagulls fought over these unhealthy snacks. In a big tree where were dozens of little birds that started to twitter.
I realized that they were all hungry.
BEACH CLOSURES MEANT A LOT LESS GARBAGE - food remains - to pick over.
Now we know that the human food garbage IS NOT HEALTHY FOR WILD CREATURES, but we also know that their populations have become somewhat used to and dependent on this human food garbage as a resource.
A few days later I went back to the beach with some NATURAL and HEALTHIER food options for these creatures, some unsalted seeds and nuts, and also some cut native plants that have seeds that they eat in nature. I did not cut these from plants growing in nature, but from native plants growing in a neighbor's garden, which needed to be cut back. I did a little research on this. You should to, learning what is native in your locality.
I threw a branch of a native California plant with seed pods over a fence and watched as a squirrel advanced through the underbrush and started to eat the pods with great enthusiasm. I walked away and there were squeals. I thought maybe the squirrels had been alerted that some new food had arrived.
A neighbor who had a lot of sunflowers in her garden gave me some of the seed-filled heads and I took those and placed them here and there. I walked around for about a half hour, making a loop. I don't know which creature dragged those sunflower heads, heavy as they were, somewhere else to feed, but they were all gone in about fifteen minutes.
Please consider, when you go to the beach, taking some edibles with you to feed the wild creatures who live there, as natural as you can find or afford.
SIren
But like you, I've had to curb my activities in order to stay more secluded, and that includes not going to the beach.
The beach nearest me has been shut down and I just didn't care to take my chances and go there and encounter people who were not wearing masks, even though the media had so many photos of various celebrities taking that chance.
Hey, I need to get out of the house as much as anyone and I hate wearing a mask, I really do. I need the sun on my face. But until we know more, it certainly cannot hurt to wear a mask.
Finally, about a week ago, I went to the beach very early - sort of. I went to a sea cliff where there's a park. I had some cheese cracker snacks with me and some of them fell from my bag as I wrangled with my dog. My dog is also showing signs of being irritable and in need of more adventures. She was hyper excited because squirrels came running. We sat on a picnic bench and watched as a pack of crows, a pack of pigeons, and a pack of seagulls fought over these unhealthy snacks. In a big tree where were dozens of little birds that started to twitter.
I realized that they were all hungry.
BEACH CLOSURES MEANT A LOT LESS GARBAGE - food remains - to pick over.
Now we know that the human food garbage IS NOT HEALTHY FOR WILD CREATURES, but we also know that their populations have become somewhat used to and dependent on this human food garbage as a resource.
A few days later I went back to the beach with some NATURAL and HEALTHIER food options for these creatures, some unsalted seeds and nuts, and also some cut native plants that have seeds that they eat in nature. I did not cut these from plants growing in nature, but from native plants growing in a neighbor's garden, which needed to be cut back. I did a little research on this. You should to, learning what is native in your locality.
I threw a branch of a native California plant with seed pods over a fence and watched as a squirrel advanced through the underbrush and started to eat the pods with great enthusiasm. I walked away and there were squeals. I thought maybe the squirrels had been alerted that some new food had arrived.
A neighbor who had a lot of sunflowers in her garden gave me some of the seed-filled heads and I took those and placed them here and there. I walked around for about a half hour, making a loop. I don't know which creature dragged those sunflower heads, heavy as they were, somewhere else to feed, but they were all gone in about fifteen minutes.
Please consider, when you go to the beach, taking some edibles with you to feed the wild creatures who live there, as natural as you can find or afford.
SIren
10/1/18
MALIBU SEA CLIFFS SOON GONE?
MALIBU TIMES - SEA CLIFFS TO REDUCE BY 130 FEET by 2100
Using a computer modeling system that incorporates existing data, scientists predict that with limited human intervention, 31 to 67 percent of Southern California beaches may become completely eroded (up to existing coastal infrastructure or sea-cliffs) in just 80 years under scenarios of sea-level rise of one to two meters. The forecast predicts severe erosion on highways serving cliffside areas such as Palos Verdes Peninsula and suggests coastal cities such as Malibu could be affected with the loss of homes, businesses and parks—cliffside coastal properties—as rising sea levels batter and chip away at land mass.
Using a computer modeling system that incorporates existing data, scientists predict that with limited human intervention, 31 to 67 percent of Southern California beaches may become completely eroded (up to existing coastal infrastructure or sea-cliffs) in just 80 years under scenarios of sea-level rise of one to two meters. The forecast predicts severe erosion on highways serving cliffside areas such as Palos Verdes Peninsula and suggests coastal cities such as Malibu could be affected with the loss of homes, businesses and parks—cliffside coastal properties—as rising sea levels batter and chip away at land mass.
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