The Natural History of Bodega Head

     24 October 2026

    Displaying Brandt's Cormorants ( Urile penicillatus ).  Their cobalt blue throat pouches were so bright in the morning sun!  Photogr...

    Nesting Pelagic Cormorant ( Urile pelagicus ), 21 June 2023   The smallest of the local cormorant species. From a distance they look bla...

    A couple of days ago I noticed a large group of cormorants, gulls, and pelicans just offshore from Salmon Creek Beach.  It appeared to b...

    To end this edition of pelagic week, a couple of photos of Bodega Rock as we made our way back in to Bodega Harbor on 23 May 2021.      ...

    Not much time tonight, but here's an older photo of Bodega Rock from 14 May 2013 — 8 years ago today!  (This is the island off the s...

  Recently there have been some very large flocks of Brandt's Cormorants feeding off of Bodega Head.  This photo is from 9 Septembe...

I haven't shown a picture of Bodega Rock in a while.  This picture was taken from the southern end of Bodega Head on 18 July 2015.  ...

  Bodega Rock, off the southern end of Bodega Head, on 20 June 2013.  On the far horizon, from left to right, are the sand dunes of Dil...

Some people don't look twice at cormorants, but when viewed up close in good light, they can be spectacular. The Pelagic Cormorant (Ph...