The Natural History of Bodega Head

    We were in Monterey yesterday (5 June 2026) for a concert, but we drove down early to spend a little time along the coast.  Here's a...

    We had to do some field work in Monterey County yesterday, but we arrived a little early, so had a few minutes to observe a few sea otte...

  California Ground Squirrel ( Otospermophilus beecheyi ) on the beach in Pacific Grove in late July.

    We've been working hard these past few days, but here's a quick shot of one of my favorite marine snails.  This is a pheasant sn...

    We're doing some low tide field work in the Monterey area.  During a short beach walk in Pacific Grove tonight (24 July 2021) we spo...

  We noticed this small (~5 mm across) sea anemone in the low intertidal zone in Pacific Grove this weekend.  When I zoomed in on the p...

We were in Santa Cruz recently, and while we were there I remembered an encounter with a California Ground Squirrel ( Otospermophilus be...

Not much time tonight...we just got home from a class field trip to Monterey.  But here's a quick image from a beach in Pacific Grove to...

   Pacific Grove, 7 April 2007    Red Octopus (Octopus rubescens) We're still in shock over the tragic loss of Rafe Sa...

This is one of my favorite marine snails, but they're small (usually less than 4 mm long), so they're often under-appreciated. They ...