Showing posts with label gastropods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gastropods. Show all posts

Friday, January 21, 2011

Little Pied Cormorant, Cat's Eye Sea Shell

We went walking around the tide pools the other day. Saw a Little Pied Cormorant:

The Little Pied Cormorant is entirely black above and white below. The face is dusky and, in adult birds, the white of the underside extends to above the eye. Immature birds resemble the adults except there is no white above the eye.


You can tell them from the Pied cormorant

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Sea Hare

The tide pools at Collaroy are really something. Christine made a remarkable find yesterday (more later, on the Cat's Eye), and not long ago we got photos and video of strange snaillike creature:




I think it might be a sea hare, a type of sea slug: