The Natural History of Bodega Head

    A nice Baird's Sandpiper ( Calidris bairdii ) at Point Reyes this afternoon (2 September 2024). The sandpiper was feeding along the ...

    Okay, so this is a story about some photos that didn't quite work out.  And a follow-up when I was surprised when the same species s...

    I spent some time watching a Wandering Tattler ( Tringa incana ) near Salt Point today (22 May 2022).       The tattler seemed very inte...

    Eric and I made a quick trip out to the outer beach on Point Reyes yesterday (5 June 2021).  A few fun beach invertebrate highlights in...

I was sitting in my office, the phone rang, and I heard Eric say, "You have to come see this."  So off I went to where Eric was lo...

Eric recently collected some calcareous sponges ( Leucilla nuttingi ) in the low intertidal zone for his Invertebrate Biology course.   In...

  I've encountered these amphipods a few times now and they're just magical!  It's amazing how much they look like sand.   ...

  A beautiful blue-eyed beach hopper (a type of amphipod) at the entrance to its burrow on a sandy beach in Chatham, MA, on 27 Septembe...

  On the way back from the post office today, I noticed this young Bonaparte's Gull ( Chroicocephalus philadelphia ) feeding along ...

Well, I've run out of time tonight, but since I mentioned it last night, I'll give you a "sneak peek."  (This animal was ~...

I took a short walk on Salmon Creek Beach yesterday, and was intrigued to see this animal left behind after a wave retreated:   It lo...

This morning Serena submitted a comment on last night's "Fire bodies" post saying that she had seen pyrosomes in the Channel ...

You know that question — if you were on a deserted island and could only have ten books with you, or ten songs, etc., which ones would you ...

On 4 April 2012, Rebecca found an amazing pelagic amphipod washed ashore on Doran Beach. An amphipod is a shrimp-like crustacean (think ab...