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Photographer captures marine eggs in rockpools

Tom Burgess
BBC News, North East and Cumbria
John Lampett A light green egg with frothy white edges clinging to a purple stem in a rock pool. Blurred in the background are many other purple stems.John Lampett
A green paddle worm egg pictured at Skinningrove

Keen diver John Lampett has taken thousands of photos of marine life on the Teesside coast over the last 15 years.

This spring he has been walking the coast and examining the rockpools to try to capture marine life getting ready for spring.

The 64-year-old has been focusing on beaches around Redcar, Skinningrove and Saltburn.

"I was looking for eggs to get in the Easter spirit and I found plenty, everything seems to be progressing well," he said.

"We are moving into the sea slug season now so that will be my next focus."

John Lampett A mound of small half translucent eggs stuck to the bottom of a rock with a reflection in the water below.John Lampett
Common whelk eggs at Redcar, Westscar
John Lampett A close-up shot of a crab, with a pincer moving towards the camera lens, which has thousands of small orange eggs stuck to its chest.John Lampett
Crab with eggs at Saltburn, Huntcliff
John Lampett Two doughnut shaped rings of eggs pictured on a flat dark green strand of kelp.John Lampett
Chink shell eggs on kelp
John Lampett Three shelled whelks producing small groups of tiny shells with baby dog whelks inside.John Lampett
Dog whelks laying eggs on Runswick beach
John Lampett A small dome of a watery egg with tiny white dots insideJohn Lampett
Flat periwinkle eggs at Skinningrove
John Lampett A yellow coloured egg which is made up of layers of ripples.John Lampett
Sea lemon eggs at Saltburn, Huntcliff
John Lampett Hundreds of tiny yellow globules clinging to a rock.John Lampett
Sea scorpion eggs at Runswick
John Lampett A close up look at yellow whelk eggs which are conjoined together in an overlapping mass.John Lampett
Close up of whelk eggs

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