Valentine’s Day Tales from Nature, Guaranteed to Make You Blush
It's Valentine's Day and we've got some stories to share with you about how Bay Area species do it.
Wildlife
San Francisco, a honeybee’s paradise
Why has San Francisco, of all places, become the land of milk and honey for honeybees?
Celebrating the year of the snake with Bay Area favorites
Happy Chinese New Year! It's the year of the snake, so we're taking a moment to reflect on some of our Bay Area favorites.
Sutro Sam, the river otter, getting too much attention
Wildlife experts say to leave San Francisco's adorable river otter alone a little bit.
Naturalist’s Notebook: Cormorants and Egrets Feed at Ebb Tide
Illustrator John Muir Laws watches the birds grab their dinner on an ebb tide.
The thrill of the hive: San Francisco beekeeping
One of San Francisco's most prominent beekeepers produces 500 pounds of honey a year by never turning down a bee in need.
Monarch butterfly numbers are down again
Monarch butterflies are about half of last year's numbers in the Bay Area. But that's not saying all that much.
Give a nesting bird a home
Nesting birds are coming back to town. Now's your chance to be a bird box landlord.
Naked in the tidepools
With seasonally low tides, now's the time to head out to see arguably the most colorful critters in the Bay Area -- the nudibranchs that dwell in tidepools along the...
Meet The Smallest Sandpipers of the San Francisco Bay
Our two local sandpipers are cute as buttons, hard to tell apart, and eat primordial ooze. What's not to love?
