Rusty Ring

(Pisaster ochraceus.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

( Cornu aspersum, the brown garden snail. Originally imported to the North Coast from Europe to be eaten as escargot; now it's eatin...

(Monadenia fidelis.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

This hand-sized specimen of Puget Sound kelp crab (Pugettia producta) quite startled me on the high tide line, far from its habitat ...

Healthy adult P. ochreceus. I conducted my informal annual survey of a local beach a few weeks ago and found the wasting-syndrome si...

(The anenome [suspect Urticina columbiana ] is about the size of a teacup; the crab is Hemigrapsus oregonensis , the green shore crab. ...

( Balanus nubilus. Found it on the tideline after a heavy storm. It was delicious.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

Maimed P. ochraceus with a replacement ray coming. So here we are again , back at the usual beach, counting starfish. (On a -5 tide!...

( Same beach , different starfish. Individual from another five-rayed species [ Dermasterias imbricata ] , randomly turning up with six...

I had the good fortune to be raised on the coast, and have spent a good deal of my life beside, on, and in the sea. The incredible diversi...

(Suspect Araneus sp. ) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

Will the real Pisaster brevispinus please stand up? Looking again at the photo I published at the top of last week's post , purport...

Not Pisaster brevispinus, unfortunately. (Update, 15 September 2021: my report of a mature Pisaster brevispinus in this survey was sa...

(Paonias excaecatus.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(This is Ariolimax columbianus , the Pacific banana slug. With a maximum length just south of ten inches, it's the second-large...

(Almost certainly the invasive Ocinebrellus inornatus , or Japanese oyster drill. I'm told the pink ones have died before hatc...

the world is my cloister except when it's my oyster for then I cannot roister because it's so much moister (Phot...

(Well, here we are again, on the same beach as last year . This summer I had difficulty finding many Evasterias ; total count was on...

(Leptosynapta clarki)