La Rocque today: Celtic sea slug (my first of the year) Berghia coerulescns (2 small), Ormer, star ascidian

First Ecrehous trip of the year did not disappoint, one Berghia coerulescens, 3 tagged ormers, and some jobs getting done. On my own tonight.

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Lazy Sundays, Alderney style… No rush. No crowds. Just wide skies, salty air, and that slow island rhythm we never want to end.⁠ Sound perfect? Plan your Island Escape today: visitalderney.com #alderney #lovealderney

Yesterdays trail of habitat destruction by low water fishers at La Rocque MPA Convention on Wetlands Jersey National Park UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum OSPAR Jersey Scrutiny 3-5 years for common species to come back, 10 for the rarer ones. I turned back what I physically could, but the damage is done.

A team of researchers led by Princeton University with funding from Schmidt Sciences has embarked on an ambitious project to transform Sargassum seaweed into valuable resources: asme.org/topics-resourc… Photo: Loretta Roberson/Marine Biological Laboratory

We have been working with Philip Pope to get the true story of George Pope,the British intelligence asset who lived behind enemy lines on Alderney with his family for 5 long years,he told the world about the Holocaust on British soil - this, his story on BBC VE Day-AMAZING!

An exceptional month in all respects, but rain is needed now.

A smooth pileus cap on this growing #Cumulus today over #JerseyCI. The milky sky in the last 2 or 3 days is caused by smoke particles in the higher atmosphere coming from Canadian forest fires

The Western Front In World War 2 From D-Day (6 June 1944) to VE-DAY (8 May 1945) In 60 Seconds More D-Day maps: brilliantmaps.com/d-day-landings/

Going to be an interesting summer by the looks of it, Pruvotfolia pselliotes which I first found subtidal the other end of the Ecrehous reef in 2022 is now also found higher up the reef here to the north west corner. 7 recorded on a recent snorkel. Few records from Jersey shore.

Dogwhelks found next to each other with similar banding, given they vary they pattern and colour I wondered why 2 should be almost alike.

Keep meaning to record barnacles more, our common ones which seem to be everywhere are Montagu's Stellate Barnacle Chthamalus montagui

And conger, I made a minute contribution on this in volume V of the Archaeology report. Once a major industry in Jersey, dried conger was a valuable commodity in the day, and the King taxed Jersey imports

Once it was only a Mediterranean species today I found 13 Dendrodoris limbata and plenty of eggs on our south east coast, Jersey, British Isles Porcupine Marine The Rock Pool Project Nature World News iNaturalist GBIF @biodiversity.social/@gbif Science at the Natural History Museum Ifremer 🌊 OSPAR UNESCO Ocean

The surprising power of your nature photos (Scott Loarie | TED2025) go.ted.com/hQhmZ via TED Talks

The Soviets deported around 1.5 million Poles to the USSR for forced labour in Gulags, where many died of starvation and disease. The third mass deportation occurred on 29 June 1940, when approximately 80,000 Polish civilians were sent to Siberia. [*] britishpoles.uk/deportation-of…

With a maximum temperature of 33.4°C, today is the hottest June day since records began in 1894 in Jersey, exceeding the 33.2°C of 17th June 2022. June 2025 is provisionally the warmest June on record with a mean temp for the month of 18.7°C, exceeding the 18.6°C of June 1976.