The Natural History of Bodega Head

    Happy holidays to owl of you!     The second photo is a Short-eared Owl ( Asio flammeus ) photographed in Petaluma at the end of the day...

    The sunset was quite something tonight (2 December 2025), and we weren't the only ones watching!   Great Horned Owl ( Bubo virginian...

    Leaving work tonight (17 September 2025), we noticed a Great Horned Owl ( Bubo virginianus ) perched on top of a telephone pole.  I turn...

    Great Horned Owl ( Bubo virginianus ) perched on an antenna that measures surface currents, 18 August 2025. P.S.  With thanks to Sam for...

    Some of you might remember that I sometimes see owls in pieces of sea urchin test.  Here's one perched on a branch of coralline alga...

    Barn Owl ( Tyto alba ) perched in a California Wax Myrtle ( Morella californica ) at Point Reyes on 26 December 2024.

    Well, that's one benefit of working late -- a chance to see Great Horned Owls ( Bubo virginianus ) on the way home!  

    A few more miscellaneous bird photos from Hawai'i for you... Above, a k ō lea, or Pacific Golden-Plover ( Pluvialis fulva ), all dre...

    We heard Great Horned Owls calling outside of our house tonight (25 March 2024), so I stepped outside to listen.  A great night for owls...

    I helped out with the Western Sonoma County Christmas Bird Count today (31 December 2023) and got lucky at the end of the day with a Sho...

    A feather in the coastal prairie.  (Perhaps from a Burrowing Owl?)  Photographed on 7 November 2023.

Great Horned Owl ( Bubo virginianus ) in the early evening on 24 October 2023.

    We were getting ready for early morning field work today (7 June 2023) when Sam noticed a large bird swooping across the field nearby.  ...

    Longer story, but I haven't been able to take many photos lately.  So tonight I went back into the archives and came across this pho...

    I've been doing lots of desk work lately, but here's a quick shot of a fly-by Burrowing Owl ( Athene cunicularia ) from 11 Novem...

    Distant but fun views of a Snowy Owl ( Bubo scandiacus ) at the edge of the marsh along Duxbury Beach, MA, on 14 December 2021.    

 Rocks, lichens, mosses...and an owl!  Can you spot it?       There's a Burrowing Owl ( Athene cunicularia ) just right of center.  If y...

Recently I enjoyed spending some time watching several Short-eared Owls ( Asio flammeus ) hunting in the late afternoon/early evening:     A...

We had to do some work during the early morning today, but afterwards we were rewarded with a nice view of a Barn Owl ( Tyto alba ):   ...

  Whoosh!  What happened to the last ten years?  It's a little hard to believe that it will be 2020 tomorrow.  I started the Na...