This fish caught by Brent Hanley near Hanois lighthouse off Guernsey's south-west coast on 15 October 2011 will be submitted as a British angling record.  It weighed 1 lb. 14 oz. and 3 drams.  The fish had suffered some damage to the second dorsal fin rays during its infancy.  Although the ray membrane was intact, five rays were missing. The ratio of the height of the dorsal fin lobe to the length of the pectoral fin keyed out to a Guinean or a greater amberjack, but the gill raker count was too high for these fish.  Based on the gill raker count alone, this fish was identified as an Almaco jack, Seriola rivoliana.

Jacks in the genus Seriola are becoming more frequent visitors to the western English Channel.  The first Seriola jack captured in Bailiwick of Guernsey records, was landed by George Staples on 7 September 2000 off the east coast of Herm Island.  This fish was identified, based on the gill raker count and the fin ratios as a Guinean amberjack, Seriola carpenteri, but some doubt has now been cast on the original identification, and the individual fish, which was destined for the Natural History Museum in London, can no longer be located.

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A black drum, Pogonias cromis, delivered to the Fulton Fish Mark in April 1991.
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This image shows a deposit of eggs of the nudibranch Aeolidia papillosa.  

Two adult Aeolidia papillosa nudibranchs were seen in the proximity of two deposits of Aeolidia papillosa eggs on the upper shore near the Guernsey end of the Lihou Island causeway on 9 May 2009.  Aeolidia papillosa is the largest nudibranch that regularly visits the Guernsey inter-tidal area.  It feeds on anemones, particularly beadlet anemones and snakelock anemones, which are both common on the Guernsey shore.  
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These two adult Aeolidia papillosa nudibranchs were on the upper shore in a shallow pool near the Guernsey origin of the Lihou Island causeway on the afternoon of 9 May 2009.  Near-by were two deposits of spawn.  The spawn is photographed in the adjacent images.  These nudibranchs feed on sea anemones - particularly beadlet and snakelocks anemones.  There cerata on the dorsal surface retain the nematocysts or stinging cells of the anemones they consume.
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I think this flatworm is Cycloporus papillosus. Two individuals were lying on a large colony of the compound ascidian Botryllus schlosseri, on the base of a rock, just south of the Lihou Island causeway.  This flatworm was photographed having glided off the ascidian colony on the 9 May 2009.  The Botryllus schlosseri colony had been excavated and several deposits of very small eggs were deposited in the depression.  I do not know if the flatworms produced the eggs or some other species such as a mollusc.
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A green caterpillar, identity unknown, consumes the leaves of Buddleja, ( Buddleia sp.), in St. Peter Port, Guernsey at about 6 pm on the 2 May 2009.

The image was captured with a 6 second time exposure and an aperture set at f16.  I used a discarded aluminium drink can found on the street to act as a prop for my 100 mm macro lens.  
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Andy Hall, butterfly recorder for La Société Guernesiaise, has identified this caterpillar as belonging to a snout moth, Hypena proboscidalis.  It was photographed feeding on nettles in my garden in St Peter Port, Guernsey on the 4 May 2009.
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A speckled wood butterfly, Pararge aegeria, rests with wings folded on a Rhododendron leaf in my garden in St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands. The image was captured on 4 May 2009 with a Canon 5D Mark 11 using a Tamron 100 mm macro lens.
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Andy Hall, butterfly recorder for La Société Guernesiaise, has identified this caterpillar as belonging to the snout moth, Hypena proboscidalis.  It was photographed at 10:37 am on 4 May 2009 feeding on nettles in my garden in St. Peter Port, Guernsey.
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A green caterpillar, identity unknown, consumes the leaves of Buddleja, ( Buddleia sp.), in St. Peter Port, Guernsey at about 6 pm on the 2 May 2009.

The image was captured with a 6 second time exposure and an aperture set at f16. I used a discarded aluminium drink can found on the street to act as a prop for my 100 mm macro lens.
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A green caterpillar, identity unknown, consumes the leaves of Buddleja, ( Buddleia sp.), in St. Peter Port, Guernsey at about 6 pm on the 2 May 2009.

The image was captured with a 6 second time exposure and an aperture set at f16.  I used a discarded aluminium drink can found on the street to act as a prop for my 100 mm macro lens.  
File No. 020509 3553
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A green caterpillar, identity unknown, consumes the leaves of Buddleja, ( Buddleia sp.), in St. Peter Port, Guernsey at about 6 pm on the 2 May 2009.

The image was captured with a 6 second time exposure and an aperture set at f16. I used a discarded aluminium drink can found on the street to act as a prop for my 100 mm macro lens.
File No. 020509 3553
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See photo in original gallery.