Shy Albatrosses (Diomedea cauta) lay just one egg during their September - April nesting season. They generally breed on Bass Strait islands such as Albatross Island, a tiny speck on the map off the northwestern tip of Tassie. Maybe that's why they … [Read more...]
YOUNG SEAL @ ELWOOD
Baykeeper loves to receive reports on the wonderful wild things in our Bay. Andrew McCutcheon has followed up his Shovelnose Lobster report with finding a young Fur Seal Arctocephalus pusillus at Elwood. Andrew reports: I first saw the young … [Read more...]
SHOVELNOSE LOBSTER WASHED UP @ WERRIBEE
Many thanks to Andrew McCutcheon for sending notes and pics of a Shovelnose Lobster Ibacus peronii (also known as Balmain Bug) found on its back on the beach at the Spit Nature Conservation Reserve on May 20/09. The critter was alive (but not at all … [Read more...]
ST KILDA PENGUIN BACK IN THE SWIM
No doubt about it... there is a fine line between pleasure and pain. Just ask the St Kilda penguin found recently stranded on land with fishing line wound tightly around its leg.... it's hard to go to work and find a fishy feed if you're tied to a … [Read more...]
Mussels… not your average shellfish!
The shoreline shell surveys have been going great! I've been meeting a whole lot of new people on beaches and learning more each day about the shellfish story. But you know how it is ... the more you learn the more you know you don't know. Which … [Read more...]
Geelong Rakali’s mid-arvo snack
I spotted this rakali near Cunningham Pier, Geelong, mid-arvo in January, in an area with lots of people passing by. It headed offshore and dived among seaweed a couple of times, rocketing to the surface (as if playing). Third time lucky, it came up … [Read more...]
