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- Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:20 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
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- Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:13 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5425
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Sunflower star mother
Most of the time, the Sunflower Star is involved in some unsavory action, usually eating some other invertebrate or even another Sunflower star. So I was surprised to find a scores of tiny crabs finding comfort in the arms of one of the marauders.. http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1272/1066987723_a132...
- Tue Aug 07, 2007 5:46 pm
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: 3 Tree last night (Aug 6, 2007)
- Replies: 5
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- Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:07 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5425
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Crab season
When I got to the scene, the crab was not struggling at all, so I don't really know how it got in there, I see sometimes crabs hiding next to the anemones, and not getting caught. Maybe the crabbing was closed..
- Wed Aug 01, 2007 2:04 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5425
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Second question, what kind of lighting are you using for it? Built-in flash or external strobe? Single or dual strobes?. Sorry, forgot to mention the lighting - Ikelite DS-125 external, single strobe. I started with Ikelite DS-50, but the battery compartment kept on flooding. I am thinking about ad...
- Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:30 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
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- Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:43 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5425
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- Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:43 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5425
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Oregon Hairy Triton
Well, thank you all - your kind words are encouraging. So on we go with Whidbey Island critters. It seems that the Oregon Hairy Triton is about finished with their parenting job - many of the egg capsule spirals are empty. Next time you have the chance to watch the Triton lay eggs, stop and watch th...
- Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:11 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5425
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Interesting development in the bivalve ID story. After more consultations between experts in California, e-mail this morning changed the California Lyonsia classification to Rock Entodesma aka Northwest Ugly Clam (Entodesma navicula). Never a dull moment in the Invertebrates realm. Even experts make...
- Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:52 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5425
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Thank you Valerie for kind words, for moment I thought nobody looks at these posts anymore :pale: And of course, you are right about the worn out appearance of gravid females. It has to be hard to carry the load and watch out for all the Lingcod looking for easy meal who lay around the Keystone Jett...
- Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:18 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5425
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Puget Sound rockfish
It looks like we get some more rockfish at Keystone soon
- Sun Jul 29, 2007 5:25 pm
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: Seaplane recovery in an alpine lake
- Replies: 93
- Views: 41940
- Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:52 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5425
- Views: 1025459
California Lyonsia
This one was not easy to identify. In the beginning I leaned toward Pandora genus, but could not google any pictures, I e-mailed picture to more experienced people, many are in the field working on research projects (vacations :D ), finally Leslie from Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County fo...
- Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:34 pm
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: Seaplane recovery in an alpine lake
- Replies: 93
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- Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:02 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5425
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Strange encounters
Local crabs never cease to amaze me. This is the first time I found Dungeness Crab holding Red Rock Crab in what I saw somewhere called as the premating embrace. In the past I saw them fighting, ignoring each other, but never hugging. The smaller Red Rock crab was not showing any signs of distress o...
- Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:08 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
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Puget Sound King Crab
Hi Ken, the Pipefish is not that common here on Whidbey, or maybe it is because my eyes are not that good... The next critter is little easier to spot, wearing a nice bright orange color. But this is the color of the future King, as the adult Kings are more varied in texture and colors. Unfortunatel...
- Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:39 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5425
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Pipefish
Our Pacific Northwest sea horse taking parenting seriously...
- Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:43 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5425
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great escape
What got my attention at this encounter was first the white color of the Giant Sea Cucumber (aka California Cucumber). When I turned to investigate the murky water movement, I found that a large Sunflower Star was trying to capture it. It was very interesting to watch how the cucumber inflated its b...
- Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:00 am
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: Seaplane recovery in an alpine lake
- Replies: 93
- Views: 41940
- Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:27 pm
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: San Juan Islands Photos (modem burner)
- Replies: 19
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- Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:45 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5425
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Lingcod
And the Lingcod keep on eating...
- Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:57 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5425
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Cryptic
This tiny little slug is camouflaged more then in one way. Even its name, common and scientific is hard to pinpoint. One book calls it the Steinberg's Corambe and another one is there under the name Cryptic. While Corambe steinbergae in one - Doridella steinbergi in second. According to Slug Forum, ...
- Sun Jul 01, 2007 3:06 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5425
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Lingcod & flounder
The Starry Flounder tries to flee the moment it sees me and my camera. So I asked the Lingcod to hold the flatfish so I can take its picture...
(just kidding)
(just kidding)
- Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:41 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5425
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Pink Short-spine stars
Do you remember Woody Allen's "Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were affraid to ask" ? Well I found myself in Pink Short-spined Star orgy.
- Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:02 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Olive Rockfish
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4160