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First time seeing a streaked gurnard and rarely recorded in Northern Ireland - would appreciate confirmation!

Didn't notice the blue tubercles until photo review. It looked like a pale Monterey Dorid in the water, with little to no yellow.

1cm long, found on a drifting blade of eelgrass

Harbor seal is apparently named "Rascalette" and gave birth to a pup 4/24/24

@ 25fsw

@ 35fsw

@ 35fsw

Although it is not visible in this shot, there is an open umbilicus and a spiral "tooth" present.

Low Tide

Juvenile spat up by an Ocean Whitefish

most likely the same individual as one found yesterday by @nudibitch

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/206262007

refound by @tidepooltales today

tiny!! eating sponge?

1 of 3 found on codium, amongst elysia hedgpethi

Strange little orange hermit crab wearing a piece of sponge as a shell.

Being carried by Osprey

Juvenile with shell approximately 2 cm long.

When I first spotted this, it's tail was protruding from sand underneath a boulder I had just turned over in a low intertidal pool.

I've heard recently that these have been seen around here. So happy to have spotted this one today!

I found five individuals, 3 - 7 mm long, on the underside of one boulder in a low intertidal pool; two are pictured here.

Group of 4-5.

Carmel Pinnacles State Marine Reserve

-white individual

22ft depth

Washed up after the atmospheric river/storms So Cal had.