The Natural History of Bodega Head

    Cedar Waxwings ( Bombycilla cedrorum ) and a Northern Flicker ( Colaptes auratus ) enjoying the morning sun in Santa Rosa today (6 Janua...

    A couple of quick shots from Crane Creek in the late afternoon today (4 February 2021).  Nuttall's Woodpecker ( Dryobates nuttallii...

A couple of days ago, a large flock of robins and waxwings found a tree full of berries in our yard:    Male American Robin ( Turdus ...

    This afternoon we watched two striking Lewis's Woodpeckers ( Melanerpes lewis ) at Crane Creek Regional Park. They spent so...

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

  I had fun learning about Nuttall's Woodpeckers (Picoides nuttallii) today, 14 March 2015.   I know some of you are familiar ...

Okay, this time I didn't cheat.   I found a few minutes this morning to look for the Williamson's Sapsucker in Santa Rosa.  S...

Well, this is cheating a little bit.  But I thought it would be fun to share the news that this species has been seen in Santa Rosa during t...

These are the first feathers I found (below).  They were scattered on the ground, but I lined them up for the photo.    Do you have a gues...

  Before we left Yosemite yesterday, we went on a short walk in the Mariposa Grove.  Along with the trees (which I'll talk about la...

I don't have much time tonight, but I can't resist showing a couple of photos.  I took these images through a window, so they're...

During the last couple of days, I've looked out the window (in Sebastopol) to see a sapsucker ( Sphyrapicus sp.) on a Sweetgum (Liquida...