Corkwing Wrasse is a nice looking fish - Pease Bay, Scottish Borders today

A couple of new insects for me both attracted overnight to the actinic trap at Pease Bay - the Thistle Ermine (Myelois circumvoluta) and the Mirid bug Adelphocoris seticornis - don’t think either are particularly common in Scotland #panspecieslisting number 2827 #teammoth

Smart juvenile Mediterranean Gull in Pease Bay this afternoon- here with a juvenile Black-headed Gull in the foreground. Look at those lovely scaly mantle feathers 😍 Not a very common species in Scottish Borders given the general lack of sandy coastline #scottishbirding

Some great rockpool snorkeling yesterday at Pease Bay, Scottish Borders. The low tide concentrated the fish in the bay into this pool - fantastic to be surrounded by so many juvenile Saithe and Cod and with a few Spratt and Pollock thrown in for good measure @thembauk.bsky.social

Great views of Cod, Lesser Weever, Spratt and Saithe (Pollachius virens) in a rock pool at Pease Bay yesterday The Spratt (Sprattus sprattus) was new for me - distinguished from Herring by the relative positions of pectoral and dorsal fins #teamfish #panspecieslisting number 2800

A Small Mottled Willow to actinic last night at Pease Bay, Scottish Borders, was a new moth for me as they’re not very common on the East coast up here. One Silver-Y was the only other migrant in the trap @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

It is a nudibranch and more specifically Geitodoris planata - I saw one only a little further north just the other day

A massive Geitodoris planata was the highlight at Pease Bay today - this #nudibranch formerly known as Discodoris is not commonly seen and this individual was about twice its typical max size so presumably an adult #panspecieslisting number 2788

Quick first attempt at some LIDAR mapping today - the small cave at the NW end of Pease Bay #lidar

Incredible numbers of Sea Gooseberries from my recent trip to North Wales - fantastic to snorkel with them constantly in view and I’ve never seen so many washed ashore either - I can’t guess how many there were…

This was in the Irish Sea off the coast of North Wales. I’m also wondering whether it was a very small B. gracilis - here’s a few more pics

I went snorkeling to look for pipefish in the sea grass meadows at Porthdinllaen today - no luck on that but I did manage a couple of sharks instead 🦈 😃 👍 a Smallspotted Catshark and Nursehound both dozing on the seabed @thembauk.bsky.social @projectseagrass.bsky.social #sharks #panspecieslisting

Another highlight of yesterday’s snorkeling in Porthdinllaen sea grass beds were the Little Cuttlefish or Atlantic Bobtail (Sepiola atlantica). Here’s one escaping its sandy lair to give me a hard stare for getting too close! #cephalopod @projectseagrass.bsky.social

This tiny Ctenophora looked unusual so I potted it to have a better look. I’m wondering whether it is a Brown Comb-jelly Beroe ovata - anyone able to say? It is certainly brown to my eye (see pic with B. gracilis) #ctenophora @ctenophoresrock.bsky.social @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social

Some great coelenterates today - I can’t resist photographing Blue Jellies in conditions like these but you can see from the second pic that it was difficult to avoid photobombing by Sea Gooseberries. Also one of two Bolinopsis infundibulum in the third pic. In the fourth pic is that a Beroe ovatum?

Great snorkeling today in the Sea Grass beds at Porthdinllaen - some stunning animal and algal life as well - the whole area is an important nursery for fish by all accounts

I’ve been using it for a year and have hit 6000+ but far fewer Ctenophora than you (39 observations of 4 species) but I did see my first Beroe gracilis yesterday- here it is with a Sea Gooseberry inside it which barely fits!

I was expecting some NFM moths when I set the trap last night down here on the Llŷn Peninsula in North Wales but I wasn’t expecting a Small Marbled - what a lovely wee thing. Also lots of Haworth’s Pugs as well as Ermine Knot-horn and Small Emerald - all unfamiliar to me @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

Had a brief snorkel off the west coast of the Llŷn Peninsula today and was delighted to see my first Beroe gracilis comb jelly as well as countless Sea Gooseberries. Also some stunning Compass Jellies and Blue Jellies. #ctenophora #coelenterates #jellyfish

My first #wildflowerhour post and it’s of my first Melilot which I was unaware of until today! I’m not sure which species so any help appreciated- this at Straiton just south of Edinburgh #panspecieslisting number 2618 if it can be identified…

I do look at all sorts of wildlife but when a rare Leuckartiara nobilis does a swim past while your snorkeling then it puts everything else in the shade for a while 🪼 #hydrozoan #coelenterates Pease Bay, Scottish Borders #panspecieslisting

More coelenterates from Pease Bay: the hydrozoans Staurostoma mertensii - the Whitecross Jelly - and Leuckartiara octona and also some ctenophore-on-ctenophore predation with a Sea Gooseberry visible inside a Melon Comb Jelly #hydrozoa #ctenophora

My first local Siphonophore - Agalma elegans - a few colonies seen yesterday and today in Pease Bay. Difficult to see, difficult to to photograph, difficult to make sense of but the parts of the colony that are visible here are gastrozooids and dactylozooids with stinging tentacles #siphonophore

My first ctenophores of the year at Pease Bay in lovely calm conditions yesterday: the Melon Comb Jelly (Beroe cucumis), the Sea Gooseberry (Pleurobrachia pileus), those two side-by-side for a size comparison, and the Common Northern Comb Jelly (Bolinopsis infundibulum) #ctenophores

Beautiful sunrise at Pease Bay this morning and my first Marbled Coronet was at the actinic to top up the PSL list to 2517. A spot of seawatching revealed a Minke Whale moving N and an unexpected Marsh Harrier coming in off the North Sea #PanSpeciesListing #teammoth #cetacean #scottishbirding

A little bit surprised to find Japanese Wireweed (Sargassum mutism) on the beach at Pease Bay this morning but I now see that there are several other records on the east coast of Scotland as well as further south - I’ve only seen it in the west before #invasivespecies @thembauk.bsky.social

Stumbled upon my first Charophyte today when pond dipping - not sure which species- anyone got any suggestions for an unidentified Stonewort?

Aha! Thanks for that very timely post - I was just in the process of trying to identify this…

Two pelagic tunicates from a plankton trawl at Pease Bay on 14 April: Oikopleura dioica with two subchordal cells next to the notochord; Oikopleura labradoriensis with multiple subchordal cells (no records on NBN). Yet to see their jelly houses… @elizabethbeston.bsky.social #panspecieslisting 2317

Had a close look at a small marshy pool near Howgate that I often see Snipe feeding in during the winter - today the plants included Ivy-leaved Crowfoot, Floating Sweet-grass, Blinks and Bog Stitchwort - none of which I had knowingly seen before #panspecieslisting 2305