Previous game camera trigger of a goshawk 30 minutes before, bookended by marten triggers. Then some drama! A goshawk appears from the left, lands briefly, and then lifts off again to meet a second goshawk in a brief tussle in the air. The birds are within view of the camera over the course of 35 seconds, with one eventually flying off with the other remaining on the ground, slightly off-camera to the lower right. Exciting observation! @caiwatha
I like to think of this as the spider guarding his slime mold! If anyone can ID the spider that would be great.
Five well-defined rays with a broad, often swollen disc. Aboral surface smooth with tightly-packed plates covered with granules; marginal plates conspicuous and rounded. Pink-orange or pinkish. To 42 cm across. Has been observed feeding on anemones and tubeworms. The common name refers to the peculiar gunpowder-like smell of specimens when taken out of the water.
Found under the snow, still fresh, no rigormortis, not frozen.
From herbarium specimen collected by Worley & Hamilton, May 25, 1968
"Wet mud in water course sloping muskeg, semi-open, Elev. abt. 1800'
San Juan Bautista I.
S.W. of Craig,
55 26' N- 133 16' W."
Acanthophiobolus helicosporus (Berk, & Br.) Walker: On dead overwintered stems of Equisetum sp. (developed in moist chamber). Arachnoid (cobweb-like) colony. Ascomata develop on superficial mycelium and on substrate surface, globose (200µm dia) with short papillate neck, pale brown peridium (text. Angularis), spines around ostiole dark brown and septate, up to 200µm long, short spines around 30 µm long also present; paraphyses not observed; asci 170-250x10µm; spores hyaline, filiform up to 160x2µm, multiseptate? (difficult to determine), slightly swollen pale area (empty cell??) at apex, helically coiled in the ascus. Reference - Walker, J. 1980. Gaeumannomyces , Linocarpon, Ophiobolus and several other genera of scolicospored Ascomycetes and Phialophora condial states, with a note on hyphopodia. Mycotaxon 11: 1-129. Ellis and Ellis, 1997 (enlarged edition original 1985), Microfungi on Land Plants 868 pp.
Extracted from chinook salmon stomach
This species is synonymized into A. gmelinii by the FNA, but is included in POWO.
This siting and images by Sam Edwards with permission for me to post. He is familiar with it having seen them in Antarctica.
Growing on Oplopanax horridus
Sediment sample depth approximately 585m. Predominantly compacted mud with some small gravel and rocks. Sediment collected by B.M.
Sediment sample depth approximately 585m. Predominantly compacted mud with some small gravel and rocks. Sediment sample collected by B.M.
fungal pathogen on Hypogymnia physodes, forming gall-like structures in center of the lichen (see 2nd pic)
Approximate depth 585m. Primarily compacted mud with some fine gravel and small rocks.
Found in sediment sample collected by B.M.
Squid collected in semi-horizontal plankton tow before sunrise. Approximate depth 2m.
Approximate squid length 1.5cm
Short video clip
https://youtube.com/shorts/7wCSqcB0-Fo?feature=share
Semi-vertical plankton tow (15 meters) still dark out, incoming flood
Semi-vertical plankton tow before sunrise. (15m depth) Weak incoming flood.
Semi-vertical plankton tow (depth 15m) Weak incoming flood
Maybe Stylatula sp?
Hope this is a baby pycno but way too small to tell
First collected from this same residence in 2008. This collection indicates this non-native species is well established here.
White spores
@jameskm
White patches all over Melibe leonina
Mag. 400x
This filamentous desmid, with broad mucilaginous sheath, was previously observed in samples taken from this same location during 8/2022, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/132728250. Along with this earlier observation there is a detailed discussion between @karolina, @geraldojpr, and @paul_norwood regarding the identification.
Highlighted cell:
L = 40µ
W = 25µ
Isthmus = 10µ
On Sitka Spruce
On rocks in the intertidal zone in Olympic National Park
Leaf miners - I believe the white things are egg cases/shells of leaf miners in leaves.
Maianthemum dilatatum
Meyer's Chuck, Alaska
based on the apparent fungal infection/lichenization
Large clusters attached to bedrock and boulders below 20 m depth. Each tunicate is about 10 cm tall. The white "rings" visible in the second image are colonies of the hydroid Bythotiara huntsmani which live in the incurrent siphon of the tunicate.
A hydroid that lives inside the incurrent siphon of the tunicate Ciona savignyi.
Dive on the RivTow Lion artificial reef
Lays distinctive "corn cob" egg towers.