I was after an adult to get photos of the underside but couldn't find any, instead there where many juveniles washed up - along with juvenile blue buttons, by-the-wind-sailors and blue bottles so the blue fleet must all spawn in the same places!

Here is a series of photos of a juvenile sea swallow about 3-4mm, initially upside down so must have been stranded by the outgoing tide and got flipped.

It is interesting to note in the first photo that while the front fan fins are developed, the back fan fins and tail fan fin are not as well defined. Also you can see the bubbles in the body .. hmm .. I wonder if this is what keeps them afloat?

Their swimming motion is like breast stoke as you can see from the second photo as well as how the bubbles have re-arranged themselves!

My sister-in-law and I gently moved the wet sand with a stick to create a small pool then it turned itself over - photos 3 - 5 :)

So now I have got the photos of the underside without having to glove and suit up as well as the acrobatic movements of this amazing little creature :D

Here is an adult obs http://naturewatch.org.nz/observations/2670813

Observation by Michael Anninos - Photos George Anninos and reproduced with permission.

Found splashing in the shallows, apparently disoriented. Returned to deeper water where it rapidly swam out to sea.

Some of the several dozen ravens at the point, having a wonderful time playing in the wind sweeping off the bluff. One of their games (which I didn't get photos of) involved playing keep-away with bits of iceplant.

This roadrunner was at a bird feeder at Sandia Crest (~10,678 feet elevation!) and was first observed lying flat in the seed tray of the feeder. After it was disturbed by me and left, a few Mountain Chickadees arrived at the feeder. When I returned to the spot sometime later, the roadrunner was back in the feeder tray and then was observed on the ground under the feeder swallowing a bird -- perhaps a chickadee it had caught. Unfortunately I missed the actual capture of the prey bird.

One of the coolest experiences I've had with a Humpback. This individual approached our boat, which forced us to turn off the motor. It decided to spend the next half hour or so rubbing itself on the hull of the boat, presumably to remove ectoparasites or something. People got repeatedly doused in smelly whale snot.

On 30.12.2021, I went on a trip to Riverstone ,Sri Lanka..... I studied about all the point endemic animals and got some informations from some university students about the bio diversity of the site before went there.....Actually ,it was a family trip.....Among all the cousins,I was the one and only one who wanted to see the point endemics or anyone that I would be interested....I went there around 1 p.m and searched everwhere that I could.... Lastly found this lovely and cool lizard..... After saw it ,I was very happy and I kept looking at it around 15 minutes .....So,I got few photos(Used NIKON P950) and suddenly started to rain there.....Then,I said good bye to this cool friend and started the hike again !!!!

This is the first Ceratophora tennentii that I saw and I love to observe these ones again in nearby future!!!!!

Pasindu Dilshan .

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Nudibranch Orienthella trilineata (northern form, about 10mm long) & look-alike amphipod Podocerus cristatus. Scanned from a 35 mm slide I took in the lab in 1984. I had found the specimens in close proximity to each other a few days earlier in the low intertidal at Middle Cove, Cape Arago, Oregon. The amphipod (and her recently hatched juveniles, visible at lower right when viewed large) are on a piece of the outer tube of the polychaete Pista elongata; the slug is on a piece of the hydroid Abietinaria.

Notice the white head tentacles of the slug and the white antennae on the amphipod. Here's what one form of the amphipod looks like in central California, where the southern form of O. trilineata ( with chromium orange on their rhinophores and cephalic tentacles) is prevalent: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1103734

Farther south, near Puerto Vallarta, the amphipod lacks white lines, just like the abundant local aeolids!:https://www.flickr.com/photos/8723238@N07/2686177157