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 ...

    Eric spotted these tiny flies hovering among the grasses in a coastal prairie site up in Mendocino County on 11 September 2022.  Althoug...

    Wow, what a fly!  I had to do some work in the dunes today.  As I was walking back I noticed this fly landing on the sand.  Even from a ...

...flies!       Near the Bodega Bay Post Office this afternoon (7 September 2021), I noticed several Red-necked Phalaropes ( Phalaropus loba...

    We were leaving for work this morning when Eric spotted this interesting fly on the door to our house. It looks like it's probably a...

    Eric and I came across a nice patch of Death Camas or Fremont's Star Lily ( Toxicoscordion fremontii , formerly Zigadenus fremontii ...

Recently I was trying to photograph some very small bees.  When I'm doing this, I'm often following the blur of a bee in flight.  I ...

During a walk not too long ago, a small insect caught my eye.  It was puzzling at first because I could see movement when it took off, but w...

Earlier in March, I was watching some insects visit the flowers of Footsteps-of-spring ( Sanicula arctopoides ).  Check out this fly.  Hard ...

I need to correct a mistake in last night's post.  I called the Coyote Brush flowers male, but I've realized now that the flowers in...

Air temperatures in Bodega Bay reached ~56 ° F (~13 ° C) this afternoon.  After a week of rain, it seemed like a lot of insects were taking ...

So there I was, looking at this insect, thinking it might be an interesting wasp.   I had seen the narrowed abdomen or thread-waisted...