Bodega Bay

August 27, 2008

Last Thursday, we took advantage of one of the last few days of summer to make a trip to the coast. I’d driven through Bodega Bay before (on our return trip from Mount St. Helens last year), but this is the first time I’d stopped and spent any time there. We had lunch in a bay-side restaurant, where we got to watch pelicans and seals and sea lions and cormorants and, yes, gulls who looked like they might go crazed and attack at any moment. 😉

Then, we went to the beach for a while, via the Bird Walk – a trail of about a mile (I’m guessing; maybe less, maybe a bit more, but probably less) which runs alongside a creek that flows into the ocean just south of the bay. It was a great day.

Wildlife seen: Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa beringiae), Western Sandpiper (Calidris mauri), Heermann’s Gull (Larus heermanni), Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis), Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias wardi), Great Egret (Ardea alba egretta), Snowy Egret (Egretta thula brewsteri).

Seen from the restaurant: California Brown Pelican, Harbor Seal (probably), UID Cormorant