The Natural History of Bodega Head

    Red-flowering Currant ( Ribes sanguineum var. glutinosum ) photographed on 11 February 2023. P.S.  Other Ribes species are sometimes ...

    Early summer view with the yellow-flowering shrub called Lizard Tail or Seaside Woolly Sunflower ( Eriophyllum staechadifolium ), 30 Jun...

    Silver Bush Lupine ( Lupinus chamissonis ), 28 February 2022

    A springtime scene for you!  Blufftop Lupine ( Lupinus variicolor ) and Silver Bee ( Habropoda miserabilis ).

  Who me? Golden-crowned Sparrow ( Zonotrichia atricapilla ), 4 March 2020  

  Some flowers for you!  Red-flowering Currant (Ribes sanguineum var. glutinosum) , one of our earliest flowering shrubs. Photographed...

  Western Azalea ( Rhododendron occidentale ) photographed at The Cedars on 11 May 2019. To learn more about this beautiful floweri...

I haven't shown a mystery close-up in a while.  Can you guess what this is?  (The answer is revealed below.)   Michelle noticed...

  Bewick's Wren ( Thryomanes bewickii ) in the willows ( Salix sp.), Bodega Dunes, 2 March 2019. I liked the view from farthe...

  A couple of days ago, we stopped very briefly to look at some beautiful Pacific Rhododendron ( Rhododendron macrophyllum ) flowers ...

  Common Buckeye ( Junonia coenia ), photographed in the Bodega Dunes on 7 November 2017 This butterfly was alternating between b...

I need to correct a mistake in last night's post.  I called the Coyote Brush flowers male, but I've realized now that the flowers in...

  This afternoon, I was watching this Northern Flicker ( Colaptes auratus ) eat fruit from a shrub at Crane Creek Regional Park in Sant...

While my family is enjoying record-breaking snow in New England (can you tell that I'm jealous?), and predictions in Boston are for a wi...

  This is a little out of order, but I didn't have a chance to share this picture last week.  Do you recognize this shrub?   I ...