{"id":662832,"date":"2025-12-30T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/662832\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:31:10","slug":"thousands-of-dead-creatures-wash-up-on-snettisham-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/662832\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of dead creatures wash up on Snettisham beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Large numbers of dead creatures have washed up along the West Norfolk coast.<\/p>\n<p>Wild Ken Hill has reported deposits on Snettisham Beach, which included a common scoter bird, thousands of flat fish, a seal and lots of crustaceans.<\/p>\n<p>The cause has not been stated. However, it is believed that rough seas over the Christmas period may have contributed to the deaths.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 1440 1920\" alt=\"Thousands of dead creatures have washed up on Snettisham Beach. Picture. Wild Ken Hill\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"D3W67SLKB3B0JSIFCQ5U.jpg\" data-ar=\"0.75\"\/>Thousands of dead creatures have washed up on Snettisham Beach. Picture. Wild Ken Hill<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the nature reserve said: \u201cWhile it can be sad to see these marine creatures washed up on land, they will provide much-needed nutrition to a multitude of animals this winter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe circle of life continues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 1440 1920\" alt=\"It is believed that rough sea conditions contributed to the deaths. Picture: Wild Ken Hill\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"L2FD8W779V2QQ87ISI04.jpg\" data-ar=\"0.75\"\/>It is believed that rough sea conditions contributed to the deaths. Picture: Wild Ken Hill<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 1440 1920\" alt=\"The creatures included fish, a bird, a seal and other crustaceans. Picture: Wild Ken Hill\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"ZHRYB7WHNG1Z36J284H9.jpg\" data-ar=\"0.75\"\/>The creatures included fish, a bird, a seal and other crustaceans. Picture: Wild Ken Hill     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Large numbers of dead creatures have washed up along the West Norfolk coast. Wild Ken Hill has reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[933,728,70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-662832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115809477135991276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}