The second one might be two sea anemones together. If you zoom in on this image from Wikipedia, you can see what looks like one which is very similar to your photo.
Doubtful. 
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That’s very interesting! I see what you mean… Thank you for that
@hairbear - we didn’t know about Google Lens. It seems very useful. Usually we are in Firefox when we’re on the SF site but we copied the link and used Chrome to get the results from Google Lens. Thanks for that info.
I think you might well be right about the sea anemone verdict on my photo. we went back at a low tide but it was obviously nothing like as low as before. However, this following had been washed up by the tide and although the picture isn’t a good one, I think it’s a very small version of what we found before and is definitely a sea anemone…
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I think our are hibernating in the attics… did you leave him, or move him somewhere safer ?
I am sorry to say he was already dead
seems there’s a fine line between “dead” and “hibernating”… he should decompose swiftly (and be a danger to health) if he really is dead… take care 
Thanks for the warning Stella but he has definitely started dehydrating rather than decomposing (if that is the right expression).
It can be difficult to tell if they’re dead or not. Body temperature goes down to about 2 to 6 C and they lose half their weight and look ‘shriveled’. If yours was alone though, it probably is as they tend to roost and hibernate in groups to increase their chances of survival.
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Silhouette great tit?
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Very possibly Wozza. I’m afraid I am not much of a bird spotter. I just liked the sillhouette and did a quick point and zoom through the kitchen window and got the lucky shot
I agree with @Wozza - great tit.
Here in the Cévennes we see squadrons of Vultures some Golden Eagles plus the more common Buzzard, Kestrel, Hobby, and I’m pretty sure I spotted Ospreys too but not 100%.
A couple days ago the cats came running in like mad honey badgers and in the courtyard was a massive toad…bigger in plan form than my hand.
We have a number of snakes, midwife toads, and jus now, the nightingales have started.
The martins are already back (end Jan) and there are plenty of deer here plus the normal wild boar.
We have foxes and badgers too…and hendgehogs
It’s fun in the Parq National.
Oh at nighttime, fun to here the Chouettes…
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We have Little Owls, which are often around in the daytime… calling to us from the roof tops/chimneys (almost a cross between whistle and a croak)
Night time… there are other owls which give the definite twit ter woo… 
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The most interesting owl around here is the Scops Owl but they have not returned yet from wherever they go in winter. They make a sound like an electrical appliance whose battery is about to go flat.
Some friends of ours received a visitation from the maire one day who was following up a serious complaint from their neighbour. Apparently, their pool alarm was keeping the neighbour awake all night .
“We haven’t got a pool alarm — but we do have a Scops Owl in residence.”
Exit embarrassed maire.
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We have them too. I have to warn our gite guests about the amazingly boring noise that goes on all night and often during the day as well.
Last May I photographed a wedding at Denbies Vineyard where the couple had booked a birds of prey bloke to put on a show for the guests.
IIRC correctly this is a Scops Owl:
It’s absolutely tiny and loved being tickled (though wild ones may not be so keen 
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He brought several owls, as well as bigger birds of prey:
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