The Natural History of Bodega Head

Between rain and hail showers today, quite a few songbirds visited the plum tree blossoms in our yard.  Two examples photographed from our k...

  White-crowned Sparrow taking a bath in the rain today (4 March 2017). 

  Not sure exactly why, but I couldn't resist this view — moving water and reflected light with the pinks of the hydrocoral and the...

Remember the Glass-spined Brittle Star that was featured on 18 December 2016 ? Well, we found one last weekend, but soon after Eric notice...

A wonderful Red Turban Snail ( Pomaulax gibberosus ), photographed in the rocky intertidal zone in northern Sonoma County on 25 Februa...

  A beautiful feather duster worm, Parasabella media , in a rocky shore tidepool.  The tentacles (called radioles) are used to capture ...

Lepidozona , a genus of chitons, means "scaly girdle."  When you see these chitons up close, you understand where the name comes f...