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…
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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:…
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…
Young tompot with attitude!
Our first big winter storm (called ‘Angus’) would have sent the cuttlefish jetting off to deeper water, thank goodness. The…
Danger! Lurking cuttlefish
Talking of marauding predators, I watched this cuttlefish cautiously from the safety of my crevice home. It grabbed a small fish…
What a mouthful! How not to inspect the inside of a conger eel’s mouth!
One of the tompot blennies living on a reef nearby recently came to a grizzly end in the mouth of…
The view out of my window – a few weeks ago
For the first few weeks that I was looking after my growing raft of eggs, the view from my crevice…
The egg thief – Connemara clingfish
The eggs survived storm Katie and I’ve had great fun over the last few weeks. Several female tompot blennies have…
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…