Marine and Natural History Wildlife Blog: Godrevy Field Trip

Last week the Marine and Natural History Photographers from Falmouth University visited Godrevy Beach. Godrevy beach hosts many varying habitats from sand dunes, cliff faces, rocks, caves, grassland and beach spaces. This allows for hosts of wildlife to take resident. Godrevy is the northen-most tip of Hayle's '3 miles of golden sand' and probably the most dramatic. Owing to it's position Godrevy takes the brunt of the Atlantic swell and is one of the more exposed beaches of the North coast. It partners with Gwithian beach at low tide creating a vast and powerful scene.

This is an image of the remaining sand patterns as the water level decreases.

Some of the more exciting flora and fauna I recorded whilst on the field trip were the grey seals which I have written about in a previous blog, extensive muscle beds which are present at low tide, ever noisy skylarks which were present in large numbers hovering above the cliff tops and diving for food. I also saw two other exciting birds, a single buzzard and a pair of swallows.

The weather on this day was stunning. We had periods of cloud, strong sunlight and a beautifully ghostly and eerie mist that passes over us on regular occasions before disappearing in to the landscape. This hazy fog produced fantastic subjects for landscape scenes which I readily engrossed myself in. Some of the photographs can be seen below. I hope you enjoy them.

All images are copyright to Abbi Hughes.