The Natural History of Bodega Head

    Nice view of a River Otter along the shoreline of Bodega Harbor this morning (15 October 2025). When the otter dove, it was calm enough ...

    This is a follow-up to my last post on River Otters...and a bit of a puzzle.  I had to sort through some photos, but when I was looking ...

Whew, well it's hard to believe, but this is post #3000!  (3000 posts over 10.5 years.)  So here's a little video clip to mark the o...

Last night I mentioned that we encountered a River Otter ( Lontra canadensis ) feeding on Mole Crabs ( Emerita analoga ).  We spent some tim...

The recreational crab season opened today (2 November 2019).  Most fishermen were headed out after Dungeness Crab ( Cancer magister ), but o...

  We've had to do some field work down near Carmel, CA, so here are a few quick shots from the Point Lobos area on 30 August 2019...

I was doing a Harbor Seal ( Phoca vitulina ) survey today, slowly scanning across the shoreline to count individual seals hauled out on the ...

I've been thinking about how so many people in California are having such a hard time right now.  During difficult times in my life, I...

This week I felt lucky to catch another glimpse of a local River Otter ( Lontra canadensis ) family.  This time they were fishing along the ...

I can't help posting one more River Otter photo.  After they finished feeding in the swash zone , this family of three (mom on the right...

Some interesting observations of River Otters ( Lontra canadensis ) this morning (3 October 2018).  This group of three otters was spending ...

A couple of days ago I had another really lucky encounter with River Otters ( Lontra canadensis ).  Fortunately, I had a large zoom lens on ...

Encounters with River Otters ( Lontra canadensis ) always have a way of making you feel lucky.   Today (4 July 2018) we observed a m...

I was driving along Westshore Road at the north end of Bodega Harbor this morning when an unusual silhouette in the water caught my eye.  I ...

...it makes your day just to sit and watch:     River Otter ( Lontra canadensis ), 15 April 2017

  Well, what do you know...we were doing field work tonight when we noticed a little face just offshore looking our way. We had to ...

  River Otter tracks heading towards the ocean Photographed 10 December 2016

        :) River Otters ( Lontra canadensis ),  photographed on a dock in Bodega Harbor, 10 October 2016