Bodega Bay News

What was up with the birds this year? 2009 will go down as the year that birds had it in for technology.

For the first time in 28 years your children will not be home for Thanksgiving. They're coming for Christmas, but they each have other plans at Thanksgiving.

Sunday's start of the commercial Dungeness crab season in ocean waters off the Bay Area was either better or worse than expected, depending on who was selling what.

Published: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 3:54 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 3:54 p.m. Bodega Bay fishermen and seafood buyers have reached an agreement on price and, with the commercial crab fishing season starting on Sunday, the first North Coast crab could be in stores by Monday.

This year's Dungeness crab season, scheduled to open Sunday, will likely be worse than last year's but isn't expected to the lowest the Bay Area has seen, according to an industry representative.

Talk about fun: We woke early on a September Saturday and drove for breakfast to a restaurant on the shore of Bodega Bay.

Published: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 4:16 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 4:16 p.m. Expectations of a poor commercial crab season are being reinforced by Bodega Bay sport fishermen who are finding plenty of crab but ones just too small to be legal for professional fishermen.

Fishermen are checking, mending and stacking pots and tending to their boats in preparation for the opening of commercial crab season.

How do starfish keep cool when lying on the sand during low tide? Dr Sylvain Pincebourde and colleagues at the University of California, Davis and Bodega Marine Laboratory, Bodega Bay, California, studied starfish in an aquarium, replicating tides and environmental conditions.

Cool starfish One starfish has a remarkable strategy to avoid overheating in the sun, scientists have discovered.

A high-altitude aerial photograph of the California coast reveals some perfectly curved sections of shoreline.

I n 1961, while scouting locations for his movie The Birds , director Alfred Hitchcock came on the village of Bodega Bay in Sonoma County an hour north of San Francisco.

An Elk Grove man and his dog were back on solid ground Monday after they were rescued from a cliffside over the weekend.

Bodega Head is site of a popular hiking trail, but it runs along steep cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

The first major storm of the season has been dumping rain on Sonoma County and will likely continue to do so through Wednesday morning.

Universal Pictures Tippi Hedren frets that getting involved with Rod Taylor in "The Birds" would result in a fly-by-night affair.

The rugged stretch of land that runs along Sonoma County's coast inspires grand passions.

Meal you would travel fo r: Raw fish fresh off the line of a fishing hook and a bottle of Savignon Blanc in a small boat at sunset in the middle of Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.

Observer, Ishmael , and I went to Bodega Bay last weekend for the day coupled with a stay in Napa with my sister and a visit to Jack London's house.

Last summer, Monica Antonio planted seeds she'd saved from supermarket tomatoes, carefully tended the plants and dreamed of fat juicy fruit, ripe for a salad or a little fresh salsa.