'The Food Chain', Limpets, Mussels, Cockles, Periwinkles. Outdoor sculpture. The Stone Jetty, Morecambe, Lancashire, England.


The Food Chain is an imaginative interpretation of Morecambe Bay’s lifecycle, cleverly linking birds to their major food source with bronze, cast feet. It is particularly popular with children. In the centre of the Food Chain the determined word searcher can find over 70 bird names carved into a recycled granite mill stone. The Artists:- Russell Coleman, Gordon Young. Limpets, Mussels, Cockles, Periwinkles is connected to the Eider Duck (Somateria mollissima mollissima).


Size: 3000px × 2892px
Location: The Stone Jetty, Morecambe, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Photo credit: © Stan Pritchard / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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