The Natural History of Bodega Head

    This is an older photo, but I came across it the other day and was intrigued.  Common Raven ( Corvus corax ) nest with two eggs photogra...

    Black Oystercatcher nest, 12 June 2025 (Photo taken  with a zoom lens from a distance and then cropped.)  

    Well, my last estimate of when the hummingbird chick might fledge was off.  Yesterday (6 April 2025), this was the view of the chick in ...

    A quick hummingbird update (3 April 2025): In the nest we've been following, the chick has grown a lot during the last couple of wee...

    A quick update on the Anna's Hummingbird nest (20 March 2025): Tonight we saw the female feeding a small chick.  In the photo above,...

    Clearing showers at the end of the day today (17 March 2025) produced a beautiful rainbow to the east.  And who was at the end of that r...

    Some of you might recall when we followed a couple of Anna's Hummingbird ( Calypte anna ) nests last winter.  Well, we've been c...

    Okay, hummingbird fans, here you go -- an update on nest #2!   On 23 March 2024, we checked in to see whether the female was still sitti...

    Well, I wasn't sure we'd see the juvenile Anna's Hummingbirds ( Calypte anna ) again, but we were in the area this afternoon...

    Well, I was on the fence about checking the hummingbird nest tonight.  I was running a little late, and I thought perhaps they'd sti...

    Just a quick Anna's Hummingbird ( Calypte anna ) update.  The two juveniles in the nest I've been checking on in our neighborhoo...

    A short story about a hummingbird and her nest.  Before the storm on 4 February 2024, I had photographed this Anna's Hummingbird ( C...

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

    On our way out to a field site recently we came across a Black Oystercatcher ( Haematopus bachmani ) nest.  We moved on so as not to dis...

    After field work this morning, I was hearing some Cliff Swallows ( Petrochelidon pyrrhonota ) calling and was wondering where the swallo...

Back in March, I mentioned that I had located a Bushtit nest in a neighbor's yard — see the post called " Nest building " on ...

During a neighborhood walk this afternoon, we paused briefly to check on the Anna's Hummingbird ( Calypte anna ) that had started t...

  During a neighborhood walk this afternoon (1 April 2020), we noticed this female Anna's Hummingbird ( Calypte anna ) just startin...

During the last couple of days while working near a window that provides a view of our backyard, some Bushtit ( Psaltriparus minimus ) behav...

    In 1945, Tyrrell wrote "The young, when hatched or only a day or two old, are not things of joy and beauty.  In fact, they rem...