This beautiful beetle is fond of damp meadows and woodland rides, where it's often found on umbellifers or thistles.

Also known as the flat topshell, these are one of the most common and colourful sea snails you are likely to see when out on a rockpool safari!

Look out for the distinctive white beak that gives this energetic dolphin its name. Don’t be surprised to see them breach and bowride too!

This colonial creature looks like an old-fashioned quill - that's where the name sea pen comes from.

A delicate wader, Red-necked phalaropes are as comfortable swimming as they are on land. Unusually for birds, the females are more brightly coloured than the males.

Rare summer visitors, honey buzzards breed in open woodland where they feed on the nests and larvae of bees and wasps.

This dainty white butterfly is now only found in a few parts of Britain, where it flutters slowly through woodland clearings.