The Natural History of Bodega Head

    A quick shot of a fun sea squirt, Cnemidocarpa finmarkiensis .  One description says this species has a "pearly luster," which...

    Yellow social tunicate ( Perophora annectens ) photographed in the low intertidal zone on 29 May 2021.  Although it's hard to tell, ...

Well, I didn't get a chance to take any photos today, so I browsed through photos from the last month or so (from various locations) an...

  I was working on a backlog of photo organization tonight, so here's an image from August 2019.  The striped peanut worm ( Phascol...

  Pycnoclavella is one of my favorite tunicates (sea squirts).  This photo gives you a feel for how it grows in dense colonies.  (But ...

I was sorting through some pictures from last spring when I encountered this one:   I said to myself, "Huh...do Two-spotted Keyh...

Eric and I did some early morning field work today.  When we first got there, we noticed a purplish hue at the high tide line.  When we got ...

Last night I showed a picture of doliolids washed up on Salmon Creek Beach:     I thought it would be valuable to document ...

A quick walk at Salmon Creek Beach on 14 June 2015 yielded some interesting sightings.   There were quite a few (perhaps 25?) Blue Bu...

  With so many Velella washing ashore recently, I have been wondering why other pelagic animals haven't appeared also.  I was thin...

What fun to open my e-mail, to see a request for help with identifying a local animal, and then to see this photo:   This animal came...

Last night, on 25 August 2014, I was waiting for someone and decided to pick up some trash on the beach.  I glanced along the water line and...

Over the last few years, I've come to realize that March (and April) are good months to look for interesting pelagic invertebrates washi...

Sometimes when you discover gelatinous bits washed up on the beach, it's hard to tell what animals they came from.  But other times, if ...