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Great Gray Owl - - WA/11

Need to put a name on this guy...

Hatching! They emerge orange and dry to black with a red abdomen.

Collected egg cluster on Dec 2, 2020 from Post Oak. Original observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/66029340

New dive site off Point Loma: Old Anchor. ~60ft depth. Rocky reef with a little bit of kelp. Truckle sponge

Rock was replaced after photo.

Nonionella basispinata (Cushman and Moyer, 1930)
Foraminifera
Surface sediment collected from San Francisco Bay near Crissy Field onboard the SFPUC M/V Rincon Point

Elphidium excavatum (Terquem, 1875)
Foraminifera
Surface sediment collected from south San Francisco Bay onboard the SFPUC M/V Rincon Point

Textularia earlandi Parker, 1952
Foraminifera
Surface sediment collected from south San Francisco Bay onboard the SFPUC M/V Rincon Point

Trochammina pacifica Cushman, 1925
Foraminifera
Surface sediment collected from San Francisco Bay near Crissy Field onboard the SFPUC M/V Rincon Point

Haplolphragmoides subinvolutum Cushman and McCulloch, 1939
Foraminifera
Surface sediment collected by Ben Becker at Tomasini Creek in the Giacomini Welands, Tomales Bay for BioBlitz 2014

Another polyclad flatworm. Pretty sure it's stylochus insolitus . I've seen these before at Anacapa, but this one was at Catalina Island.

@anudibranchmom ? New to me!

This is a guess - looks similar-

Eating what appears to be a frog eye.

Right near the surface, mesmerizing swimming!

Found by my friend @graysquirrel. Thanks Krissa!

Second photo is a fruiting body from another log in the same location. I'd put that log in a moist chamber after collecting it in the woods.

Actual photos to come

Feeding on hydroid

Holding eggs...

The fine spotted morph of the species. This is a smaller morph with fine spots compared to the larger nominal morph with larger spots.

Morrone O, 6316, SI

Nudibranch or seahare? About 5-6 inches long.

From ~20m deep