Whoosh Storm Freya and Storm Gareth but no ‘Beast from the East’ this year yet!
I’m still hiding away safely in my crevice home. Phew! Well kind of, it’s still like being in a washing…
Animal physiology
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…
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:…
A fish spring cleaning? In readiness for romance!
Well, the storms have gone, the sun is out, the seawater temperature which has been around 9 C most of…
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…
Was that Storm Doris?
I’m glad I chased that velvet swimming crab out when I did. I’ve been in dire need of my crevice…
Tompot blenny power! How to deal with a velvet swimming crab.
This pesky velvet swimming crab keeps creeping into my crevice home when I’m out searching for food. He doesn’t seem…
Benny the Blenny is reading his book!
Thank you for reading my blogs, I hope you’ve enjoyed them as much as I’ve loved writing them. There’s always…
Danger! Lurking cuttlefish
Talking of marauding predators, I watched this cuttlefish cautiously from the safety of my crevice home. It grabbed a small fish…
“Mini me” tompot blennies out and about on my reef!
Since the baby tompot blennies have settled out of the plankton, three noticeable things have happened. First, they have taken…