At last the sea temperature is rising!
Things are looking up now the water temperature has increased to 11 degrees after the warm Bank Holiday. Bradley has…
Paternal care
Tompot blennies egg-laying “Eggscitedly” and “Eggsstaticly!”
I’m “eggscited” and “eggsstatic” now I have a full raft of eggs to look after! That’s because this spring I’ve:…
Look what the storms washed up onto the beach
Just after the video for my last blog was taken, I kept seeing dark shapes being swept past my crevice home. It…
Tompot blenny egg development: it’s not bronze, silver, gold like your Olympics, it’s amethyst, gold, silver!
When I’m guarding all the eggs in my crevice, I have plenty of time to watch them develop. Something I…
2’s company, 3’s a crowd, 4’s a harem?
Although I have a good number of eggs to guard already, and I’m busy looking after them in my crevice…
A thoughtful Dad
I’m thinking about my babies (tompot blenny larvae) swimming, eating and developing in the plankton, I hope they are OK. It…
We’re looking at you Dad!
Over the summer the eggs that I have been caring for have developed well; you can see them on the…
A Dad’s duties
Here, I’m using my pectoral (shoulder) fins to fan water over Belinda’s developing eggs and keep them healthy. I also…
Guarding my eggs from an edible crab
Now I’ve got eggs to care for, I need to keep intruders away. This edible crab is too close and…