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…
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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…
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…
“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…
Tompot girl – BBC Wildlife magazine July 2016
This photo shows my friend Maisie being a Tompot girl. Thank you Maisie, I’m very proud to be starring in…
Nosy fish – keeping watch. The eyes have it!
I’m keeping watch for predators and intruders. You can see from this video that I have unusual eyes and can…
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…