A Guide to Coastal Wildlife: Mudflats and Salt Marshes

Brett Westwood and Phil Gates explore the mudflats, finding them teeming with life such as cockles, lugworms, mud snails and mud shrimps, providing food for wading birds. Away from the mud, slightly higher up the shore on the salt marsh, the duo discover sea lavender, a plant that has a clever way of dealing with high salt levels by excreting salt crystals onto its leaves giving them a greyish sheen and a salty taste. First aired in 2016