Identifying Goose Barnacles on a floating wheel
Walking the coast of Westray I can see a yellow plastic wheel floating in the sea among the seaweed and flotsam and jetsam:
On it I can see Goose Barnacles:
They are crustaceans and feed by filtering the sea water.
I last saw them nearly 10 years ago:
The way they move is slightly hypnotic.
Have you found them?