AnimalBytes

Ceanothus, commonly called wild lilac, is a chaparral plant that takes the form of a shrub. The clumps of small flowers arranged on the tips...

  Throughout the yard, winter rains are promoting early California flowers. The Mexican redbud ( Cercis canadensis var. mexicana ) showcases...

An unexpected creature sat warming itself in the sun on the patio this morning: a yellow-faced bumble bee ( Bombus vosnesenskii )   Its long...

  One nice thing about a spotting scope: it isolates your focus down to one or a couple of individual birds. If it's on a tripod, you ca...

A black bird lands on your backyard fountain. Is it a raven or a crow? courtesy of K. Meyer   There are a couple of physical traits I look f...

I don't know why, but today new birds were showing up in my yard and in the yard of friends. In both cases the newcomers were at water f...

I learned a new term this weekend "rat spill." Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands Nat'l Park Think of an oil spill and then re...