The Natural History of Bodega Head

    Cooper's Hawk ( Astur cooperii ) feeding while perched on a tree branch in Cotati on 18 March 2025.  [You can click on the image for...

    Okay, one more hummingbird post!  Eric was in Davis all week, so when he arrived in Cotati tonight we went by to check on the Anna's...

    The lighting was tough, but here's a quick shot of a Tropical Kingbird ( Tyrannus   melancholicus ) photographed near the Bodega Mar...

Early this morning we were woken up several times by loud rolling thunder.  When I got up to try to record it, I also noticed flashes of lig...

I'm guessing that many of you woke up this morning (16 August 2020) to the intense thunder and lightning storm across the Bay Area.  It ...

I heard through the grapevine that Evening Grosbeaks ( Coccothraustes vespertinus ) had been seen in Bodega on Sunday, so I stopped by to lo...

Here are a few more photos from the pelagic trip to Cordell Bank last Sunday (15 October 2017).  If I remember right, we encountered this gr...

Late in the day, I looked up to see dark clouds on the eastern horizon:   Not too long after, a very loud clap of thunder rolled acro...

On 1 November 2016, I posted some pictures of some Red Phalaropes involved in some aggressive behaviors .  I mentioned that I hoped to share...

I haven't shared a sound file in a while...but I ended up with a few recordings of whale spouts when we were on the boat trip on 9 Octo...

A few people have expressed interest in seeing and hearing this American Redstart ( Setophaga ruticilla ) that appeared on Bodega Head today...

I recorded some fun bird calls and songs in Petaluma this weekend. Do you want to try to guess which species of birds they are? I'll...

I wasn't going to post tonight, but then something happened and I couldn't help myself. I'll post a sound clip first to see if...

As promised, here are a few recordings of Laysan Albatross calls, recorded near Cordell Bank on 9 September 2015. First, a couple of pictu...

It was fairly hot this afternoon, so I was looking for some place cool at the end of the day.  I spent a few minutes rock-hopping along Cope...

I stepped out of my car last night and heard a very loud screech. I turned towards the sound and saw this:   The sound gave away th...

  Janet noticed this young male Chestnut-sided Warbler (Setophaga pensylvanica) in the Bodega Marine Lab parking lot on 9 June 2015.  L...

The forecast called for a chance of thunderstorms, and possible hail.  I was hopeful, but often these predictions fall short.  That was not ...

Okay, here you go...the audio file to match the lightning video. (If you can't see the audio file below, just click on the title of this...

Remember the Marsh Wren photos from early January?  (If not, this is one of them and you can review others here .)   Last week I reco...