Titlow Beach Tidepool Checklist Tiptoe through the Tidepools and help keep the beach a special place! * No collecting—leave all plant and animal life where you find it. * If turning over rocks during your exploration, be sure to place the rock gently back where you found it to protect the animal life. Check in with a beach naturalist for more information about beach etiquette or the tidepool life.

Plants Red algae Turkish towel (pictured) Rainbow Tidepool Plant Tidbits Brown Algae  ‘Seaweed’ is a loose  Bull kelp colloquial term for Sugar kelp several groups of Seersucker multi-cellular algae. Rockweed  Although classified as red, brown or green algae Green Algae by it’s structure, these Sea lettuce plants are many different Sea confetti colors. For example, Vascular Plants Turkish towel can often Eelgrass appear more purple or black, than red.

Birds This is just a partial listing of some of the birds that might be observed at Titlow Beach Glaucus-winged Gull Western Gull Dunlin Common Crow Bufflehead Western Grebe Kingfisher Great Blue Heron Canada Goose Black Turnstone Double-crested Cormorant Titlow Tidepool Animals Anemones Octopus Aggregate anemone Giant Pacific octopus Green anemone Red octopus Sun anemone Sea pen Amphipods Flatworms Beach hopper (Sand flea) Leaf worm Barnacles Polychaetes Acorn barnacle Calcareous tube worm Giant barnacle Feather duster worm Crabs Lug worm Sand worm Decorator crab Blood worm Clam worm Dungeness crab Paddle worm Scale worm Graceful crab Spiral tube worm Mud worm Green kelp crab Chitons Small kelp crab Black chiton Lined chiton Hairy hermit crab Gumboot chiton Mossy chiton Purple shore crab Yellow shore crab (Hairy crab) Limpets Red rock crab Finger limpet Shield limpet Isopods Mask limpet Drab isopod Green isopod Rough keyhole limpet Shrimp Nudibranchs Broken back Coonstripe Sea lemon Sea Cucumbers Opalescent nudibranch Burrowing cucumber Striped nudibranch Red cucumber Stichopus Snails White cucumber Bittium Sea Stars Checkered periwinkle Blood star Sitka periwinkle Leather star Dog whelk Mottled star Wrinkled snail Purple star (Orange star) Lacuna Six rayed star Leafy hornmouth Sunstar Moon snail  Moon snail egg collar Sunflower Clams Fish Bent nose Penpoint gunnel Butter clam Horse clam Tidepool gunnel Little neck clam Sand clam Crested blenny Oysters Saddled blenny Jingle shell Starry flounder Mussel Shiner seaperch Blue mussel Northern clingfish