The Natural History of Bodega Head

    It was another warm day, with temperatures reaching ~65 ° F on the coast today (3 February 2026).  I was checking on a few different thi...

    I've gone many years without seeing a badger, so the last few months have felt unusual.  A badger has occasionally been spending tim...

    Luck found us again last week with a sighting of an American Badger ( Taxidea taxus ) napping in the mid-day sun.  After a couple of min...

    Lucky day at work today (25 February 2025)!  We were headed outside to eat lunch on the deck when I noticed a very large hill of freshly...

    Recent badger digging, with an interesting area in the lower right corner.  In that oval patch you can see the soil is very smooth, with...

    Every day is earth day if you're a badger!   Photographed on 11 April 2023.

    American Badger ( Taxidea taxus ) resting on a mound of freshly dug soil around sunset a couple of nights ago.  I rarely see badgers, so...

      "Ahhh...dust baths in soil dug up by a badger are the best!" said the California Quail ( Callipepla californica ).  

  No joke — I've been hoping for a badger photo for over 16 years now, and tonight (11 January 2021) it finally happened.  We often see ...

Yesterday, while I was driving along the road (on Bodega Head) I noticed an animal in the distance that I couldn't quite identify at fir...

Today we saw the first Coast Rockcress (Arabis blepharophylla) flowers of the spring.  This species grows near rock outcrops in grassland ...

     Burrows of the American Badger (Taxidea taxus) Badgers are fossorial (adapted to life underground), digging burrows fo...