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15-09-2010, 08:25 PM
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| |  strange animal tracks on gower beach
 I've seen some really odd tracks on the beach in Gower today. All over the beach from the sea to the mid tide level, some 4" wide some just 1cm wide looking for all the world like bike tracks, only weaving and curving and made up of what I can only describe as apostrophe shaped marks!!! They go all over the sand, across and round and round rocks. There appeared to be some going or coming to a large hole in the sand. Didn't fancy poking my hand in!! Never seen anything like it in all my life walking on the beach. What on earth made them? A giant sea cucumber, sea urchins???? |
15-09-2010, 08:33 PM
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| | | Re: strange animal tracks on gower beach
Sounds like a bivalve or other shellfish. |
15-09-2010, 08:48 PM
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| | | Re: strange animal tracks on gower beach
they were tracks that measured up to 4" side to side made up of lots of those apostrophe marks, say about 4 to five side by side in a a staggered row like a bike tread if the bike had lots of teardrop shaped rubber treads. Way too big for any shellfish, sand dollars? |
15-09-2010, 09:12 PM
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| | | Re: strange animal tracks on gower beach
I'm trying to visualise these tracks but am struggling somewhat. The only other sign I've seen that might be similar is the feeding marks of Shelduck as they dabble through the surface releasing Baltic Tellins here in Morecambe Bay. |
16-09-2010, 09:47 AM
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| | | Re: strange animal tracks on gower beach
Not sure if I am interpreting your description correctly, but I think they might be crab tracks.
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16-09-2010, 11:23 AM
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| | | Re: strange animal tracks on gower beach
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Originally Posted by nimblejacks  they were tracks that measured up to 4" side to side made up of lots of those apostrophe marks, say about 4 to five side by side in a a staggered row like a bike tread if the bike had lots of teardrop shaped rubber treads. Way too big for any shellfish, sand dollars? | 4 inch? British shellfish grow much larger than that. | | |
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