Western Bluebird parents feed chicks in the nestbox used by Oak Titmice last year. Share this educational video, and the dramatic stand-off filmed between the two species last year, with your kids. (Species Sialia mexicana).

Netflix Movie, California Christmas, City Lights, features Beth and Jim’s sailboat Resilience in a romantic dinner scene between Josh Strickland and Lauren Strickland.

Sailing vessel Resilience crosses the hazardous shallow sandbar at the mouth of Tomales Bay. Warning: The Tomales Entrance bar is dangerous and should not be attempted by boaters unfamiliar with the area.

American Bushtits feed fledged chicks as siblings snuggle and jostle for position on a branch. Backyard birding.

Western Bluebirds attack Oak Titmice in a challenge over the Titmouse-occupied nest box. Share this educational video with your kids.

A Book Review by Beth Ann Mathews

Witness a pair of Oak Titmice build a nest in a nest box, learn the species familiar call, observe one bird delivering food and nest material to its mate. Share this educational video with your kids.

What emerged was not the sound of a human child, but the whisper-scratch of a creature frozen, the sound a lizard might make if forced to sing…

Beth and Jim experience wildfire smoke while anchored in a remote location in their sailboat. Jim secures an N95 face mask to a computer fan to create an air filter.

A Book Review by Beth Ann Mathews

Beth Ann Mathews is the co-leader of the garden landscape committee at Yulupa Cohousing, where a vibrant sustainable landscape with native plants requiring low water …

Jim and I have been helping survey blue and humpback whales off the central coast of California. Being out on the open ocean in our sailboat—in 4 to 8 foot swells—has been demanding, but exhilarating.