Have you seen Top Shells here?

23rd August 2010, Monday

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While I was in Whitstable last week, I saw this KWT Shoresearch leaflet.

It surprised me because I had in fact found a Top Shell for the first time at Pett Level a week or so previously.
I hadn’t been thinking straight however and because
a)I’d seen them mostly in collections brought back by children from W Country holidays and
b) it was at the top of the beach, I unthinkingly dismissed it as part of a discarded collection.
I didn’t even keep it to check the exact species.

A cautionary tale………….