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Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 9:20 pm
by dphershman
interesting..... I've never paid attention to the 'warty' name before. What gives them that name? (Behrens refers to them as being warty but without an explanation), I've just distinguished them by their longer snouts, although they do have a pronounced hump just behind the head.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 5:09 pm
by Jan K
Agree, some of the common names are little confusing ...
After a year of absence, one showed up again :
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 6:30 pm
by LCF
My absolute favorite Puget Sound fish! There's nothing that gets me hooting and hollering like that flash of bright red appearing out of the gloom.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 5:48 pm
by Jan K
And a not so colorful fish from the same waters ...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:10 am
by LCF
Quite a nice find, to have one of those guys out in the open! Thanks, as always, for the excellent photos. I think if I see one, I'll know it!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 5:14 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 7:25 pm
by LCF
Love the vermilion rockfish pictures! I tried to hard to take photos of them at the pinnacle in Hood Canal a few weeks back, but nothing came out as clear and brightly colored as your shots!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 7:28 pm
by oldsalt
Sailed by not realizing it was you. Did you notice the gray whales?
-Curt
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 7:37 pm
by Jan K
oldsalt wrote:Sailed by not realizing it was you. Did you notice the gray whales?
-Curt
Missed the whales, but it was such a great weather to be out on the water !
Lynne, I didn't get the shot when three of them swam by :( With moving targets, it is many times camera Point & Miss
more then Point & Shoot...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 10:31 pm
by Dusty2
Lynn, Try Sund rock. There are several hanging out on the north wall and they are not as spooky as others I have encountered elsewhere.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 7:13 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 8:00 pm
by Dusty2
nice work Jan
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 8:51 pm
by LCF
Jan, I need to make a date with you to dive Deception Pass. I don't know anyone who does it more often, and I really would like to do that dive.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 6:55 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 9:04 am
by LCF
This is fascinating, Jan. I would have expected the carcass to be swarmed with sea stars and crabs, as we see the dead octopuses often are. Your photos make it look as though it's a tossup between the meat being removed, and the stuff growing on the bones!
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 9:35 am
by Jan K
Thank you, Lynne. When I got first excited about the prospect of monitoring the whale bones cleanup,
I too expected all kinds of critters to descend on them and I thought I will be able to get picture of scavenger
orgy on grand scale. Did not happen. But it is still interesting even if not too photogenic ....
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:55 pm
by Jan K
The slugs keep mowing down the hydroids. I think that the Stubby dendronotids will be gone soon
for I see many of their eggs all over the area.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:30 am
by LCF
Wow, that's quite a collection of subramosus nudis!
More than a million eggs . . . and we wonder why the viz is so bad
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:51 pm
by Jan K
Current and lousy viz at Keystone - I blame part of the bad viz on the Port Townsend ferry.
While docked, it still turns the screws and the brown sediment laden water drifts over to our
side of the jetty :( I can see it coming as I approach the underwater end of the jetty.
That is my theory ...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:06 pm
by Dusty2
Jan K wrote:Current and lousy viz at Keystone - I blame part of the bad viz on the Port Townsend ferry.
While docked, it still turns the screws and the brown sediment laden water drifts over to our
side of the jetty :( I can see it coming as I approach the underwater end of the jetty.
That is my theory ...
Yes Jan, But without the ferry there would be no jetty.
Nice shots of my favorite nudie. D, albus. I love the purple ones. Jeesh! I've never seen so many Subramosus together. That is one impressive field of ostrich plumbs too.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:23 pm
by LCF
Thank you for the excellent shots of the Puget Sound rockfish. Peter and I have been scratching our heads over an image similar to yours, of something he saw yesterday. Your picture shows clearly that the rockfish don't have a crest above the eyes, so it wasn't that.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 7:49 pm
by Jan K
Lots of gravid rockfish in Whidbey waters. Good sign
and curious, but skittish gobies
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:37 pm
by LCF
I did a dive on KVI towers a few weeks ago, where my buddy and I were struck by the number of hugely gravid rockfish we saw. I tried to photograph them, but the viz was awful and the job was beyond me.
I did not know that gobies maintained harems, but I have noticed that where you see one, you often see a whole group of them. I suppose that's why?
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:34 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:43 pm
by Dusty2
I never dare to say high or low! They are just cockscombs. That way I'm never wrong.
I side with Greg when he sez he's not sure they are 2 different species.