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…
Egg laying
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…
I’m going to be a Dad again! Eggs in time for Easter
It’s a good thing I got my crevice home clean and ready for my female visitors. Just before Easter, a…
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…
Eek, a diving bird!
Close escape today! I was on the ‘balcony’ (all right then, the rock ledge) outside my home, nosing around when…
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…