Happy New Year everyone! Having started 2018 in bed with flu, I’m hoping this year’s going to improve as it goes along. The sun’s shining and there are some good tides later in the week, so I’m feeling hopeful.
In the meantime, I’m cheering myself up looking back at some of the incredible creatures I met in the Cornish rock pools last year.
I hope you enjoy last year’s highlights and I’m looking forward to seeing what 2018 brings.
Thanks Rob – much appreciated. I don’t know if you’ve seen my social media, but this blog has just been awarded BBC Wildlife Magazine’s blog of the year award. Very exciting! Thanks for you support – knowing that people are reading it keeps me going when it’s freezing and bleak on the shore 😀 Happy New Year!
Thank you! Happy New Year to you. And huge thanks for all your support. My blog’s just won the BBC Wildlife Blogger of the Year Award and I’m very, very excited! 🙂
Excellent news about Wildlife Blogger of the Year! Hope you recover from the lurgy quickly. By the way, how big are the nudibranchs? I’m constantly looking for them in backgrounds of photos I take but am really not sure how big the ones you see are.
Jackie Skipper
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Hi Jackie, Thanks so much 🙂 Sea slugs vary quite a lot in size but some of the biggest, like the sea lemon are only a few cm long and from that they can go right down to the almost microscopic. Most are only a few mm – 1/ 2 cm long. The best thing to look out for are their eggs, which are most commonly spiral shaped so quite distinctive. The adult slugs are often to be found close by. The other thing to do is to learn what particular species of slugs like to eat – often hydroids or sponges etc… lots of species have a very specific diet. Then you can find the prey species and look at it closely – that’s how I found the slugs that eat fish eggs…. the slugs are so well camouflaged that you almost have to believe in them to see them 😀 I hope that helps. I’ll email you a couple of pics of sea slugs on my hand to give you an idea of the size. There are some photos in this blog that might help too… https://cornishrockpools.com/2017/08/17/for-the-love-of-sea-slugs/ Happy searching 🙂 Heather
Thanks Jo. So glad you enjoy my blog. Happy New Year to you too – I’m already much better thanks and hoping the weather will be good enough to enjoy the spring tides at the end of the week. Watch this space!
Thanks, Heather for your splendid blog. I always make time to read it. Happy New year!
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Thanks Rob – much appreciated. I don’t know if you’ve seen my social media, but this blog has just been awarded BBC Wildlife Magazine’s blog of the year award. Very exciting! Thanks for you support – knowing that people are reading it keeps me going when it’s freezing and bleak on the shore 😀 Happy New Year!
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A lovely review of an adventurous year.
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Thank you! Happy New Year to you. And huge thanks for all your support. My blog’s just won the BBC Wildlife Blogger of the Year Award and I’m very, very excited! 🙂
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Oh my goodness that is fantastic, you should be very proud. Congratulations, that is a great honour indeed.
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Thanks 🙂 I think I’ll celebrate by doing some rockpooling when the tides improve at the end of the week!
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YES VERY!! xx >
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Excellent news about Wildlife Blogger of the Year! Hope you recover from the lurgy quickly. By the way, how big are the nudibranchs? I’m constantly looking for them in backgrounds of photos I take but am really not sure how big the ones you see are.
Jackie Skipper
Dr. Jacqueline Skipper BSc PhD DIC CGeol FGS
Senior Partner,
Geotechnical Consulting Group
52a Cromwell Road
South Kensington
London SW7 5BE
Mobile: +44 (0) 77 6666 2550
Tel: +44 (0)207 590 6377
Fax: +44 (0)207 584 0157
E-mail: j.a.skipper@gcg.co.uk
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Hi Jackie, Thanks so much 🙂 Sea slugs vary quite a lot in size but some of the biggest, like the sea lemon are only a few cm long and from that they can go right down to the almost microscopic. Most are only a few mm – 1/ 2 cm long. The best thing to look out for are their eggs, which are most commonly spiral shaped so quite distinctive. The adult slugs are often to be found close by. The other thing to do is to learn what particular species of slugs like to eat – often hydroids or sponges etc… lots of species have a very specific diet. Then you can find the prey species and look at it closely – that’s how I found the slugs that eat fish eggs…. the slugs are so well camouflaged that you almost have to believe in them to see them 😀 I hope that helps. I’ll email you a couple of pics of sea slugs on my hand to give you an idea of the size. There are some photos in this blog that might help too… https://cornishrockpools.com/2017/08/17/for-the-love-of-sea-slugs/ Happy searching 🙂 Heather
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congrats on getting blogger of the year!! well deserved!
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Thanks Sean. I’m very honoured to have been chosen. 🙂
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amazing review as always incredible finds and great knowledge. Get well soon and heres to 2018 xx
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Thanks Jo. So glad you enjoy my blog. Happy New Year to you too – I’m already much better thanks and hoping the weather will be good enough to enjoy the spring tides at the end of the week. Watch this space!
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