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Pelagic Cormorants attache their nests to bluff faces, using their own guano as glue. Rozanne Rapozo recently photographed several nests.

Michael Reinhart found Pigeon Guillemots. They use openings in rocks for their hidden nests, much safer than the Pelagic Cormorant nests. This is a rather rare photo of a chick being fed.

Here are two Pigeon Guillemots on the water. It looks like they are talking to each other. Note the orange-red mouth!

Pelagic Cormorants are mostly silent, but Pigeon Guillemots have a whistling call that  you can hear on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at this link: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pigeon_Guillemot/sounds

Thanks to Rozanne and Michael for allowing me to share their photos with you here.

It was very foggy this morning, with the sun finally breaking through mid-afternoon, a lovely cool day on the Mendonoma Coast!

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I love owls! Esther Shain found this Barn Owl roosting in the daylight hours.

When I asked Diane Hichwa what this nocturnal owl was doing during the middle of the day, she said, "Well, they have to be somewhere!" Yes, I guess they do...

Thanks to Esther for allowing me to share her photo with you here.

There was some fog this morning, which came up from the south, but it's sunny this afternoon. Temps are on the cool side, just the way we like them! 69 degrees this afternoon.

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Peter Baye wrote, "Here's the underwater fish-eye perspective on the Wigeongrass canopy, reaching up like a vine growing through submerged dead tree branches - which these are, mantled in green filamentous algae."

"The bubbles in the Wigeongrass are pure oxygen produced by the Wigeongrass leaves getting sunlight under water. They can actually saturate the water column with oxygen by day.  May not be pretty to us, but the Gualala Roach and Steelhead juveniles love it!”

It will reach the surface in the lagoon soon. It’s not harmful; it’s beneficial. Watch for it!

Thanks to Peter for allowing me to share his photo with you here.

No wind today. There are some high clouds drifting by, and it's a nice, warm day on the Mendonoma Coast.

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Chris Pechal found her hummingbird feeder emptied each morning. She finally photographed the culprit - a Gray Fox.

And Acorn Woodpeckers have been known to take their share. The first photo was taken by David Presotto.

And the second photo by Jon Loveless.

It's rare, but once or twice a Black Bear has been seen drinking all the sugar water.

Thanks to Chris, David and Jon for allowing me to share their photos with you here.

It's a little warmer today, but breezy right at the coast. BONUS SIGHTING FROM TODAY: There are white caps on the ocean but that didn't stop my sister, Linda Bostwick, and her husband, Mel Smith, from seeing a small group of Humpback Whales from their home in Point Arena. Linda said they breached more than fifty times, and did hundreds of tail slaps. The show went on for nearly an hour.

 

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We don't see these butterflies very often on the coast. Maybe they like it a little warmer! But Amy Ruegg found a California Dogface Butterfly recently feeding on native thistle!

Thanks to Amy for allowing me to share her photo with you here.

Foggy this morning, sunny this afternoon - must be the coast!