The Natural History of Bodega Head

    Wow!  Eric took some striking photos of featherduster worms last weekend.  This is Serpula columbiana , a marine worm that lives in a wh...

    We spent some time watching an American Dipper ( Cinclus mexicanus )  in a creek along the Oregon Coast today (5 April 2026).  I had tro...

    There was a pretty large swell and lots of foam washing ashore while we were up in Oregon last week.  With an overcast sky, there were s...

    American Dipper ( Cinclus mexicanus ) in a creek near Cape Perpetua, Oregon, on 29 October 2022. We had fun watching this dipper while ...

    During a short walk along Bastendorff Beach (near Charleston, OR) today (28 October 2022), I noticed a few of these small salps in the d...

    Rock formation at Cape Arago, Oregon.  I couldn't decide which view I liked better, so here's a horizontal image (below) ...

  Wandering Tattler ( Tringa incana ) near Newport, Oregon, on 4 June 2019. Also nearby were these amazing Gooseneck Ba...

  Pigeon Guillemots ( Cepphus columba ) , Oregon coast, 3 June 2019 ADDENDUM (4 June 2019): Alice mentioned the red feet and red ...

  Yesterday we were excited to find this beautiful nudibranch, Diamondback Tritonia ( Tritonia festiva ), at Cape Arago, Oregon. After...

This afternoon I glanced out the window of the Yachats Inn and was surprised to see large fins breaking the surface of the water fairly clos...

It figures that the day after I leave California, two birds show up in Bodega Harbor that I haven't seen locally yet — a Brown Booby and...

...tattler's back? This Wandering Tattler was perched along the rocky shore near Yachats, Oregon on 22 May 2013.   Although int...