The Natural History of Bodega Head

    The offshore buoy was reporting wave heights of ~22 feet earlier today (23 December 2024).  These were big waves, so I took a few photo...

    I'm running out of time tonight, but here's a couple of quick photos of a beautiful Red-legged Frog ( Rana draytonii ) that we c...

    Recent weather forecasts have included a lot of different things  — scattered showers, gusty winds, elevated seas, flood advisories, thu...

    A short story about a hummingbird and her nest.  Before the storm on 4 February 2024, I had photographed this Anna's Hummingbird ( C...

    Swell heights at the offshore buoy reached 28 feet this morning.   In photos, it's often hard to tell how large the waves are, but ...

    Interesting clouds to the east of Cotati last night (21 August 2023) at sunset.  I think these might have been some of the outer bands o...

    We've been busy with field surveys recently, but I wanted to share one photo illustrating the impacts of the intense storms in Janua...

    It's been a couple of weeks since the significant wave event during the early January storms, but I've been working on a small s...

    The recent storms have blown some Red Phalaropes ( Phalaropus fulicarius ) close to shore.  I noticed a least a handful along the Bodega...

    Another photo of the stormy conditions on 7 January 2023.   [You can click on the image for a larger version.]

    I was doing some work on the coast today when some movement out my window caught my eye.  It was quite stormy and the light was dim, but...

    There were 20-30 foot swells at the coast today.  It's always hard to judge scale when looking at wave photos.  Can you find the two...

      There were incredibly dark clouds to the west as we drove home from work tonight, but the sun broke through here and there, highlighti...

    The buoy offshore of Point Reyes reported wave heights between 20-30 feet for most of the last 24 hours.  These photos were taken from ...

    Pretty serious west swell today (22 October 2021) — the Point Reyes offshore buoy was reporting wave heights between 12-15 feet.       ...

There was some really interesting weather and cloud formations at the coast today (17 August 2020).  I'm running out of time tonight, bu...

I was driving home from work and looked west at the lingering storm clouds when a flock of birds caught my eye.  I wasn't sure what they...

  It always seems like the gulls enjoy a good storm.  You'll often see them riding the updrafts along the bluffs.  Photographed on ...

At around 10:30 a.m. this morning (28 March 2019), we could see some serious dark clouds to the northwest:   Later, I checked the r...