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Miserable weather this morning but that didn’t bother this tiny sea slug. Doto coronata <10mm Newquay, Cornwall So much incredible #marinelife on our UK shores 🦑

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My Spurilla neapolitana find getting some traction… #marinelife #citizenscience in the New Scientist www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

What a fabulous #shoresearchweek with #CornwallWildlifeTrust & their #marineconservation team. Whilst exploring the lower shore I found the #nudibranch Spurilla neapolitana - a first UK record! 🦑 @mblscience.bsky.social

It’s #nationalmarineweek We have such a rich diversity of wildlife in our oceans. So much of it we can see if we just go for a stroll along a rocky shore & look carefully. Here’s a group of Daisy Anemones (Cereus pedunculatus) in a rocky crevice in N Cornwall #marinelife #rockpooling #cornwall 🦑

It's National Marine Week! 🌊 These specimens of marine algae were collected in Plymouth and pressed in an album by Russel Harris in c late 1800s or early 1900s. Their vibrant colours last to the present day! 📷 EUL MS 278 #NationalMarineWeek #MarineWeek #Devon #MarineAlgae #Seaweed #Archives

🌊 How do tiny zooplankton shape climate & marine ecosystems? The latest #IJMS symposium issue calls for global, sustained efforts to study zooplankton’s critical role in a changing ocean. 📖 Read more ➡️ www.ices.dk/news-and-eve...

A Shanny (Lipophrys pholis) high & dry waiting for the tide to turn & bring the sea back. Also a red tube worm which will provide a natty ‘door’ to the nook when it’s all wet under water #Cornwall #uk #intertidal 🐙

Escaping the heat and painting some #rockpool favourites #workinprogress 🦑

@gpstrees.bsky.social This is my favourite local oak

Found this beauty yesterday. Discodoris rosi Looe, Cornwall, UK 🦑

Beautiful delicate work, as ever, from @gpstrees.bsky.social

Foxgloves and Rosebay Willowherbs - by contemporary botanical and natural world artist, Anna Dowd More of this artist's stunning artwork, here: annadowdart.com #art #botanicalart #wildflowers

A wet & windy day on the shore but life in the rock pools doesn’t mind Three different Anemones along the same narrow pool. Dahlia (Urticina felina), Daisy (Cereus pedunculatus) & Gem (Bunodactis verrucosa) #cornwall #rockpools #anemones #intertidal #marinelife 🦑

I have seen many a Greenleaf Worm (Eulalia clavigera) on the shore but I have never seen one 'hoovering' the rocks!! #cornwall #rockpooling #tidepooling #intertidalmarine #marine #invert 🦑

Walking along Wolfgangsee- not the sunniest of days but it’s still beautiful

Inpired by '#Ocean' & want to hear more from our Scientific Advisor to the film @bd-stew.bsky.social? 🎧 Listen at 1:50:00: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Bryce discusses his involvement in the film and why marine protection gives hope—but climate action must go hand in hand! 🌊 #OceanFilm

Whilst this bee was busy feeding a Flower Crab Spider grabbed a snack !! It then deftly manoeuvred it down below the leaf canopy 🌿🐝🕷️ #closelooking #nature #circleoflife

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Despite the chilly wind a lovely womble round N Cave Wetlands this afternoon. Heared my first ever Bittern and also my first Cuckoo of the year @northcavebirds.bsky.social

Not my home patch but a lovely place to wander early in the morning. Lots of birds hiding in the reeds. Swallows dashing through overhead. Earlier there were 2 Redwings - shouldn’t they all have headed ‘home’ by now? 🪶

A lovely Roman Snail (Helix pomatia) out & about on a woodland path #Invertfest

Sunshine has brought out the butterflies - look at this stunner! #hertfordshire @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-hertsmiddx.bsky.social

Saw my first Emperor Moth today. Splendid creature #teammoth #MothsMatter #hertfordshire 🐛🦋🌱

NEW PAPER! 'Urgent policy action needed to reverse decline in UK #fisheries and protect coastal #communities' Huge kudos to lead author Sarah Coulthard & all the other co-authors for presenting such a united voice www.mba.ac.uk/marine-biolo... @thembauk.bsky.social @plymouthuniccc.bsky.social 🐟

THE SWALLOWS ARE BACK #hertfordshire #Swallow @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social

There are bivalve molluscs at the bottom of the Mariana Trench as yet unknown to science with a better grasp of economics than this.

A great weekend @uniofstandrews.bsky.social for Porcupine Natural History Society Conference Fascinating programme of speakers and wonderful to see original specimens from HMS Porcupine exploratory voyages in the Bell Pettigrew museum.

@hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social it won’t be the #FirstBirdOfMyDay but I have seen my first ever Eider ducks (in Northumberland) and they are beautiful

Stunning Antarctic Sea Creatures Discovered after Iceberg Breaks Away www.scientificamerican.com/article/stun... 🧪🌎🦑

What I think is a Small-eyed Ray (Raja microocellata) egg case. Found on N Cornish coast, UK The most beautiful burnished bronze/gold colour. Felt full so I’m hoping it will hatch out & be swimming in the bay later in the year 🦑

In other news that will please many including @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social : the Hirundines were back exploring their nesting options under the eves of the apartment blocks in @latania.bsky.social Such an uplifting sight 🪶

Hard to beat a sunny day in the mountains (although if I HAD to choose I’d still choose the sea!)

There’s nothing quite like lying in the dark listening to Tawny Owl conversations 🦉

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What joy & delight to see three Grey Wagtails feeding by a stream on the Ashford Hangers in @southdownsnp.bsky.social Only one in this short video clip. The other two were feeding & calling round a little wooden bridge just upstream

You can see how the Blue Pool got its name. Lots of rain has washed chalk off the Ashford Hangers (steep chalk hillsides) & into the water @southdownsnp.bsky.social

So much life just below the waves. This is a North Cornish shore in all its glory

So many tiny juvenile Sea Hares (Aplysia punctata) in the rock pools on the North Cornish coast. I stopped counting at 20 🦑 #rockpool #titdepool #seahares #intertidalmarinelife

Galathea squamata (Common Squat Lobster) chilling out in the current & enjoying a feast. Met while I was exploring the shore in North Cornwall, UK Isn’t nature wonderful?! #marinelife #rockpooling #littlethingsmatter 🦑

A beautiful spring day on Ashford Hanger. Primroses on the banks. Firecrests calling in the woods & my first butterfly of the year-fairly certain it was a Peacock but it set off from the edge of the woods ahead of us so no photos. @savebutterflies.bsky.social @southdownsnp.bsky.social

What a wonderful day in the Cornish rock pools yesterday. A friend found two Babakina anadoni and the tiniest (~3mm) Discodoris rosi #ukrockpooling #underwaterphotography #nudibranch #seaslug 🦑

A quick trip to the rock pools between the showers. Snakelocks Anemone (Anemonia viridis) & Dahlia Anemone (Urticina felina) 🦑 #rockpool #newquay #cornwall #seaanemones

Bit blowy on the North Cornish Coast today. Tops being ripped off the waves. Beautiful between the downpours

I wish I’d taken more detailed shots of this incredible force of nature. Starfish shed limbs to escape predators. As long as some of the central disk is intact, they have the remarkable ability to regrow those limbs Nature is AMAZING 🦑 #Cornwall #rockpool #Marthasteriasglacialis

🦑 The #Newquay Ocean Film Festival is on Sunday (26/1) An afternoon showcasing the amazing marine & coastal habitat. UK premier of Scars Was sold out but more tickets now released wtwcinemas.co.uk/film/newquay... See you there!

Thought provoking outcome of @rothamsted-lte.bsky.social @rothamsted.bsky.social long term experiments fertiliser on grassland = decline in pollinators

#Hertfordshire (UK) young #birders gather… 🪶🦉