Craig Pinder

Keeping it simple with my snorkel in Portland Harbour! Amateur underwater Photography #olympuspen 📸

[MBA - Marine Biological Association @thembauk]

Great to see Ryan Stalker win British Wildlife Photographer of the Year! 👏 We were honoured to use one of Ryan's goose barnacle images in our latest issue of #TheMarineBiologistMagazine.

Read more about these crustaceans in our latest article ➡️ https://t.co/N4AvNbrH0l

[Craig Pinder @DorsetLimpet]

Highlight of today's snorkel! What I believe to be a very shy Jorunna tomentosa having a poo! and quite a substantial one at that! 💩
#jurunnatomentosa #nudibranch #seaslug

[Craig Pinder @DorsetLimpet]

My cover article in the MBA's Marine Biologist magazine, January edition. This time a story about cocaine, a corpse, a plane crash and goose barnacles.
Big thanks to Ryan Stalker who got the cover photo!

[Craig Pinder @DorsetLimpet]

It's been an amazing 3 or so weeks of beachcombing. This American fishing buoy took a bit of careful dissecting, but it was worth it to find located deep in its nooks and crannies several tropical Oysters and Pen Shells. Thanks to @SteveTrewhella1 for ID's.

[Craig Pinder @DorsetLimpet]

@gleedowen @mcsuk @StrandingsUK @ARC_Bytes All reported and its now off for a postmortem.

[Craig Pinder @DorsetLimpet]

A few cool finds all washed up on Chesil Beach, Dorset in the last 14 days.
A deceased juvenile Loggerhead turtle. Marine worm - Eunice norvegica. Grey Trigger fish and a Zigzag scallop from warmer tropical waters.
#beachcombing
#marinelife
#dorsetcoast

[Craig Pinder @DorsetLimpet]

I can now see why ships of old dreaded the Shipworm (Teredo spp.) This small fragment of sawn softwood washed up on Chesil beach recently had many individuals lurking inside.
#shipworm

[Craig Pinder @DorsetLimpet]

Common Goose Barnacles and Lepas pectinata, washed up attached to this plastic bottle this morning on Chesil beach, all the way from the USA! 🇺🇸 How do I know? Well the kind person who threw it away thoughtfully packed the remnants of their Hot & Spicy Sausage inside the bottle!!

[Doug Allan @DougAllanCamera]

If all my great followers sign up, we'll crack the 10000 and get action on this - PLEASE I'm supporting @mcsuk, demanding @GOVUK protect people and planet by turning off the tap on chemical pollution. Take action to #StopOceanPoison today!: https://t.co/dmVWpfTaDx

[Craig Pinder @DorsetLimpet]

@DWTMarine It was lovely, and my first encounter with cuttlefish too! 🙂

[Craig Pinder @DorsetLimpet]

A couple of mesmerising Cuttlefish for this evenings snorkel in Portland Harbour! 🙂

[Craig Pinder @DorsetLimpet]

@VictorVescovo That's beautiful, do you know approximately how big it was!

[Craig Pinder @DorsetLimpet]

@andy33082645 @viv_keene That's not good!

[Steve Trewhella @SteveTrewhella1]

Arrow worms snack ⁦@copepodology⁩ ⁦@tammy_horton⁩ ⁦@JimmyBernot⁩

[Craig Pinder @DorsetLimpet]

@WildlifeBloke @KerrieDoodles @DorsetCouncilUK Very sad indeed.

[Craig Pinder @DorsetLimpet]

Counted 22 dead gannets around Chesil Cove this morning with more dead floating in the sea. Gulls and 1 Raven feeding on the corpses! Not posting any more on this, it's too depressing! #DEFRA #portlandbirding #birdflu

[Craig Pinder @DorsetLimpet]

A Scotty bait pot drifted over from the US. Trapped inside a small pelagic swimming crab. Its almost certainly a crab called Liocarcinus holsatus, otherwise known as the Flying crab or the Livid crab.
Thanks to @stevetrewella etal for the info. #liocarcinusholsatus

[Craig Pinder @DorsetLimpet]

Yet more dead gannets! 3 new ones washed up, 3 floating in the sea or on rafts of seaweed and 2 still alive but being harassed by gulls. 11 dead in total now along that 1km stretch from the Cove and more to come!
#birdflu #DEFRA #rspb #dorsetwildlife #seabirds #portlandbirding

[Craig Pinder @DorsetLimpet]

Well that was a very nice surprise this morning, when a friend let me know I'd had a little mention in British Wildlife magazine for my courting Black-face blennies! Thank you very much @francesdipper it's much appreciated.
#britishwildlife
#britishwildlifemagazine
#marinelife

[Craig Pinder @DorsetLimpet]

@Proregulus82 @DorsetFox @PortlandBirdObs Unfortunately I found another one on my walk back all within 100m of each other. 5 in total.