Overcast with light winds. Temperatures above freezing overnight and to near 40F today.
The marine layer-like overcast made it easier to spend more time at home working on indoor projects. I spent a chunk of the day publishing photojournal entries from the last week of November 2025 and adding iNaturalist observations from photos in December of last year.
I did head out this afternoon.
I stopped by Little Magic Island to poke around a bit since the tide was out.
I caught one of the small and brief breaks in the clouds which allowed sun through.
When I arrived, I noticed several ravens over on the rocks, but was not surprised when they took off as I walked down the beach.
A small divot in the sand sparked my curiosity and I pulled out a purple olive snail (Callianax biplicata) from just under the surface. I set it on the surface of the sand to get some photos, then placed it back in the sand before moving on.
Two or three leather stars were left on the rocks high above their preferred zone and appeared to have been pecked at by birds. I suspect it was the ravens. I do not remember seeing birds going after leather stars before. In both cases I photographed, they had been flipped over. They were not entirely cleaned out, but it seems like the birds must have been getting something.
The rockweed seemed quite worn. It made me wonder how it ‘knows’ how to regenerate in the same form as it regrows. I guess that’s a question for any organism that is able to regrow parts.
I was the only one who showed up for ultimate again this evening. It makes a convenient frame of reference for seeing out much light we have been gaining. It was still basically light at 5pm when I called it good and headed to the radio station. Not that long ago, it was dark when we started at 4:30pm.
Today was the 1500th consecutive day that I’ve done an ebird checklist. I have a week to go to hit that milestone for consecutive days with an iNaturalist observation.
My iNaturalist Observations for Today
