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Seahorses
Seahorses are extraordinary and beautiful fish with heads like horses and tails like monkeys. We have a seahorse exhibit and today I took a few photographs of some of these remarkable animals to share...
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Wandering Tattler – Shorebird Nomad
I love the name – wandering implies a nomadic lifestyle and tattler suggests gossip! These lovely shorebirds do migrate long distances and have a wide distribution. Their alarm call is a high pitched...
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Around for 500 Million Years
They are 95% water but jellies – ancient marine invertebrates – never cease to fascinate me! These are a few snapshots I took recently of some of the jellies at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps. The...
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Black Jellies
The mysterious Black Jellies are back in the news. These large maroon colored jellies are turning up every Summer on Southern California beaches in recent years. Before 1989 they were rarely seen and...
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Tidepools: Gooseneck Barnacles and California Mussels
Wet mussels and barnacles gleamed in the afternoon sun as I walked past them on my way to Blacks’ beach yesterday. Filed under: environment, General, marine, Nature, ocean, outdoors, photography, San...
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The Black and White Clownfish Have Eggs Again
Our black and white Ocellaris Clownfish have eggs again and they are such fun to watch. These Clownfish are the same species as the often more familiar orange and white Clownfish as in The movie...
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Connecting with our fellow creatures on Earth Day
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Unlikely Ocean Relatives
Not all gelatinous, transparent animals floating in the ocean are jellies. Some of the most fascinating of these animals are actually tunicates called Salps. This means they are Chordates and are more...
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Going Back to Antarctica
I started looking through my photographs again and could not resist sharing some penguin photographs from my favorite place on the planet. Antarctica is a wonderful area for taking photos – the...
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Our new Lagoon Jellies
I took some video of our new Lagoon Jellies last night. They are so graceful. They are about the size of a quarter and found in saltwater lakes and bays in the Indio Pacific. They can feed by ingesting...
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Magical Antarctica
Antarctica is a place of haunting beauty. I think it is hard not to take nice photographs there as everywhere you look the scenery is simply stunning. I t is a place I like to remember when I want to...
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Copper banded butterflyfish
Our new Copper-banded butterflyfish at the Aquarium is beautiful. I could not resist sharing a short video. Also called Beaked coralfish, these Indo Pacific reef fish have elongated snouts with small...
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Shrimpfish Choreography
I was watching our Shrimpfish at Birch Aquarium this evening and couldn’t resist posting a short video of them. I never tire of looking at the way they synchronize with apparent military precision....
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A Wet and Windy afternoon at San Elijo Lagoon
Yesterday I went to San Elijo Lagoon between Cardiff and Solana Beach, California. There were heavy showers all day long and bouts of glorious sunshine and rainbows. The rain made everything shine and...
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Visiting the Antarctic Peninsula
I am getting very excited at the thought of going back to the Antarctic Peninsula at the end of the year. It is a magical place to visit and. I am posting a short video of the ship going through the...
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My Favorite Iceberg
I spent New Year’s Day in the Antarctic Peninsula. I had already seen many beautiful icebergs of all sorts of shapes and sizes – many of them glowing with that special blue that seems to come from...
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Humpback Whales in the Sea of Cortez
I was lucky enough to spend a few days at Cabo Pulmo on the Sea of Cortez, Baja Peninsula in Mexico. I was on the ocean near the coast on small boats a lot of the time – and in the perfect spot to see...
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Orcas in Antarctica
On a recent trip to the Antarctic Peninsula I was lucky enough to see a pod of Orcas – or Killer Whales – close to the ship in the entrance to a narrow channel between islands. The sun was low and...
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Southern Elephant Seals in the South Shetlands
On the way back from the Antarctic Peninsula we stopped at Livington Island in the South Shetland Islands. It was a very cold day with bitter winds but worth every second on land. It is bleak...
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Celebrating Marine Life
I love penguins and it is a joy to watch them at the New England aquarium – they are at the base of the giant ocean tank that is such a signature feature at the aquarium. This a truly magnificent area...
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