The Natural History of Bodega Head

    I'm running out of time tonight, but here's a couple of quick photos of a beautiful Red-legged Frog ( Rana draytonii ) that we c...

    We had to move some material on the ground today (15 January 2024), and look who was underneath! Nice to see this beautiful Sierran Tree...

    I took a short walk in Walpole, MA, today (26 September 2022).  I ended up at a small pond and started noticing a few interesting animal...

     A tadpole with hind legs (above)...  and a frog with a tail (below):     Sierran Treefrog ( Pseudacris sierra ) photographed 3 July 2...

  At various times in the past, Eric has challenged me to find and photograph a frog for leap year.  I'm happy to say that 2020 is ...

A quick follow-up to the " Spring transition " post on 22 May 2018 :   A Sierran Treefrog ( Pseudacris sierra ) that's ...

After field work near Mendocino on Sunday, we were walking up a coastal bluff and noticed some shallow pools off to the side of a small stre...

  While doing some gardening yesterday, Eric looked down into a clay pot and spotted a small Sierran Treefrog ( Pseudacris sierra ) .  W...

Sierran Treefrog ( Pseudacris sierra ) on a Douglas-Fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii ), 7 November 2017.   We're received 0.7 inc...

  A young Sierran Treefrog ( Pseudacris sierra ) holding on to a bur-reed leaf in Bodega Bay on 16 August 2017. P.S.  You might kn...

  Many of us were keeping an eye on the weather today...over 2 inches of rain fell during the past 24 hours.   California...

In late January I decided I should start taking some pictures to document this year's drought conditions. Below are two pictures compa...

  And I think just about everyone and everything was enjoying the rain today.   We left work a little late, and encountered a cou...

Although I recorded this on 6 December, it seems appropriate to share it while listening to raindrops on a wet, soon-to-be-winter's nig...

Rain for most of the past week created favorable conditions for amphibians.  The most common frog on Bodega Head is the Pacific Chorus Frog ...