Windswept

  

8 January 2022

Ringing in the new year

  

So cool to zoom in on these beautiful colors in a shelf fungus in our backyard!  (And what an amazing sweater pattern this would make!)

Here's a close-up:

 Photographed in Cotati on 9 January 2022.

Watchful

 

 

Watchful Surfbird (Calidris virgata), 8 January 2022 

 

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Just getting started

  

 Juvenile Winged Kelp (Alaria marginata), photographed on 2 Jannuary 2022.

Orange of my eye?

  

This sculpin's orange coloration was a perfect match with the nearby sponge (visible in the foreground)!  Photographed in the low intertidal zone on 3 January 2022.

Down jacket

  

Early morning light on a Northern Harrier (Circus hudsonius).  I helped out with the Western Sonoma County Christmas Bird Count today (2 January 2022).  It was a chilly start to the day (patches of frost on Bodega Head) and this harrier's feathers were puffed up a bit.  A down jacket was a good idea this morning!

Blending in

  

A nice Cabezon (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus) photographed by Eric back in early December.