The Natural History of Bodega Head

  Looking north along the Sonoma Coast into steady northwest winds on 15 April 2013

Okay, here's one of those mystery close-ups.  Do you have any guesses about what these might be?   I'll show you another exam...

    Blue Dicks or Wild Hyacinth (Dichelostemma capitatum)   photographed in the Bodega Dunes on 6 April 2013  P.S.  I grew...

Images from the Mendocino coast on 13 April 2013.   Wind and waves.  Hold on to your hat!   Black Oystercatcher and wave splas...

We woke up at 3:45 a.m. so that we could arrive on the Mendocino coast for early morning field work.  But it was worth it!  The wind and wav...

It's been one of the windiest weeks of the spring so far.  When the wind blows this hard for this long, you never know what you'll f...

I glanced offshore early this morning to see significant numbers of loons moving north.  This is always an exciting phenomenon.  April and M...