SpaceDaily reported
The mimic octopus off Indonesia can transform itself into a flatfish, lionfish or banded sea snake — and researchers have even watched it switch into the form of a predator of the fish attacking it, suggesting the disguise can change with the threat
A small octopus on Indonesia’s open seafloor has cracked an unexpected survival code: impersonate whatever predator is currently trying to eat you.
Posted in Animals | Tags: Mimic Octopus
Photographed in the East Bay Regional Parks Botanic Garden in Tilden Park in Berkeley, CA on September, 22, 2026.
The Regional Parks Botanic Garden is a California native plant garden. It is located within Tilden Park in the hills above Berkeley, California, It is a 10-acre garden includes many of the state’s rare and endangered plants and a place for visitors to wander among trees, shrubs, flowers, and grasses from plant communities throughout the state. There are free weekend and holiday tours. Admission and parking are free. For more information about the garden visit the Friends of the Regional Parks Botanic Garden.
Posted in Garden, Photos (Sandy's) | Tags: Regional Park Botanic Garden, Tilden Botanic Garden
CBS reported
A sea turtle has nested on a West Coast beach for what wildlife experts say is the first time in recorded history.
Video captured last Wednesday in Seal Beach shows the moments when a female olive ridley turtle lays eggs in the sand before returning to sea.
Read more at Sea turtle lays eggs on Southern California beach for first time, wildlife experts believe
Posted in Animals | Tags: Sea Turtles
Berkeleyside reported
The John Muir Land Trust is trying to raise $7 million to buy the 116-acre Johnson Ranch near the steam train, and open its panoramic views to the public. It bought a smaller ranch nearby last December.
Posted in Park | Tags: John Muir Land Trust, Johnson Ranch, Tilden Park
SpaceDaily
Humpback whales are interrupting orca hunts to rescue completely different species, swimming underneath a doomed seal and lifting it out of the water on their chest, or forming a wall between the killers and a grey whale calf, and scientists still can’t fully explain why they bother to save animals they have nothing to gain from
For years, humpback whales have been mysteriously intervening in orca hunts to save animals they’ll never meet again—a pattern so bizarre that marine biologists are still searching for a plausible explanation.
Posted in Animals | Tags: Humpback Whales, Orcas
Theodore Payne Foundation inspires and educates Southern Californians about the beauty and ecological benefits of California native plant landscapes.We are located on 22 acres of canyon land in the northeast corner of the San Fernando Valley. Our full-service native plant nursery, seed room, book store, art gallery, demonstration gardens, and hiking trails are open to the public year round. We offer garden tours and classes for adults and families, as well as field trips to TPF and in-classroom programs for children. Friendly on-leash dogs are welcome and there is no admission charge!
See upcoming events at Theodore Payne Foundation Events – Upcoming Activities and Tickets | Eventbrite
Posted in Class/Workshop | Tags: Theodore Payne Foundation Upcoming Events
SF Gate reported
The number of common murres washing ashore in critical condition has alarmed experts. These charcoal-and-white seabirds rarely come to land.
International Bird Rescue has taken in 162 of the penguin look-alikes from Northern California beaches this year, with a notable spike since August. Many are starving.
Read more at With Bay Area common murres starving, biologists fear the worst
Posted in Birds
SF Gate reported
Golden mussels have spread to a popular reservoir in the East Bay, prompting officials to enforce a 30-day quarantine on all boaters who launch at Lake Del Valle in Livermore, where the invasive species recently emerged.
Read more Golden mussels spread to East Bay’s Lake Del Valle for the first time
Posted in Environment | Tags: Golden Mussels, Lake Del Valle
Discover Wildlife reported
After heavy rainfall threatened nests of the Madagascar pochard, the world’s rarest duck, conservationists collected its eggs from the wild. They then carried them 44km on foot to a specialist breeding centre – resulting in a successful rearing of a new generation.
Read more Conservationists carry the eggs of the world’s rarest duck for 44km on foot. Here’s why
Posted in Uncategorized
Public sale hours are 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., with exclusive access for Friends members starting at 9:00 a.m. Friends memberships may be purchased at the Garden starting at 8:30 a.m. on the day of the sale, or in advance on the Garden website.
The sale will feature a wide array of California native plants propagated and grown from the Regional Parks Botanic Garden collection. An inventory of the plants that will be available will be published in early September.
Posted in Garden | Tags: California Native Plant Sale
NPR reported
The lions were found dead inside the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a popular wildlife reserve in Tanzania. Deaths raise concerns over wildlife poisonings in East Africa.
Posted in Animals | Tags: Animal Poisoning, Lions
SpaceDaily reported
A creature that spends its entire life in crushing darkness a kilometre beneath the waves appeared, alive, at the sunlit surface off Tenerife in 2025, and marine biologists are still debating what dragged it up from a world it was never meant to leave.
The appearance of a deep-sea creature that should have died in the pressure change raises a troubling question: what catastrophic force could bring something from the abyss back to the sun?
Posted in Animals | Tags: Black Seadevil., Humpback Anglerfish, Melanocetus johnsonii
BirdLife International today publishes the State of the World’s Birds report at the Global Flyways Summit in Nairobi.
— Read on www.birdlife.org/news/2026/09/11/birds-are-running-out-of-places-to-land-45-of-migratory-bird-species-now-in-decline/
Posted in Birds | Tags: Migratory Birds
NPR reported
Eastern monarch butterflies are flying more than 2,000 miles south, through the central U.S., to overwinter in Mexico. We look at a project aimed to help the pollinators along their journey.
Posted in Butterflies | Tags: Monarch Butterflies
NewsBreak reported
California is losing its oaks. One man is planting 10,000, including in tree-scarce Altadena
Posted in Wildflowers and Other Plants | Tags: Oak Planting
Photographed in the East Bay Regional Parks Botanic Garden in Tilden Park in Berkeley, CA on September, 2026.
The Regional Parks Botanic Garden is a California native plant garden. It is located within Tilden Park in the hills above Berkeley, California, It is a 10-acre garden includes many of the state’s rare and endangered plants and a place for visitors to wander among trees, shrubs, flowers, and grasses from plant communities throughout the state. There are free weekend and holiday tours. Admission and parking are free. For more information about the garden visit the Friends of the Regional Parks Botanic Garden.
Posted in Garden, Photos (Sandy's) | Tags: Regional Park Botanic Garden, Tilden Botanic Garden
SF Gate reported
It’s not clear if the whale, named Rio, is still in the Delta near Rio Vista, or if it managed to escape back toward freedom.
Read on www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/humpback-whale-rio-vista-delta-22440681.php
Monga Bay reported
Posted in Animals | Tags: Dragonflies
Photos taken in the Regional Park Botanic Garden in Tilden Park in Berkeley, CA on September 16, 2026.
The Regional Parks Botanic Garden is a botanic garden of California native plants. The Garden is open Monday through Sunday from 8:30 AM to 5 PM. It is located within Tilden Park in the hills above Berkeley, California. It is a 10-acre garden for many of the state’s rare and endangered plants and a place for visitors to wander among trees, shrubs, flowers, and grasses from plant communities throughout the state. To learn more about the garden visit the website at www.nativeplants.org .
Posted in Garden, Photos (Sandy's) | Tags: Regional Park Botanic Garden, Tilden Botanic Garden
Cal Matters reported
A long decline in the number of people managing wildlife refuges in California accelerated after the Trump administration’s DOGE staffing cuts.
Read more at Where did the birds go? Once-abundant wetlands are drying up after federal staff cutbacks
Posted in Birds, Environment | Tags: Loss of Wetlands
See the schedule of upcoming Bay Nature Events https://baynature.org/events/
Posted in Talks, Walks & Hikes | Tags: Bay Nature Events
Science News: Scientists have identified a previously unknown species of wild cat in Bolivia’s cloud forests, marking the first time in more than a century that a n.
— Read on timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/meet-tilcayo-the-tiny-wild-cat-discovered-in-bolivias-cloud-forests-after-more-than-a-century/articleshow/134316459.cms
The Guardian reported
California is set to see one of its sharkiest summers in a decade, with large numbers of juvenile great whites already on a reverse vacation from the warm waters of Mexico to cooler pastures along the western United States.
Read more at California faces highest shark numbers in years as great whites head north
Firefighters are battling a wildfire near Yosemite that has grown to more than 1,000 acres as of Wednesday, according to Cal Fire.
— Read on www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/dome-fire-near-yosemite/4144249/
Tico Times reported
Wild white-faced capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica are learning to use a touchscreen in the middle of the forest, giving researchers a new way to study animal intelligence without taking the monkeys out of their natural environment. The system, called CapuchinAI, combines artificial intelligence, cameras, a touchscreen and an automatic food dispenser at the Taboga Forest Reserve in Guanacaste.
Posted in Animals | Tags: Costa Rican Capuchin Monkeys
See Upcoming Los Padres ForestWatch Upcoming Events at Home | Los Padres ForestWatch
Posted in Birds, Talks | Tags: Los Padres ForestWatch Upcoming Events
Dnuz reported
The leathery mammals, mostly associated with dry, sweltering locations like Texas, have been creeping northward over the last century or so. But last week researchers collected a dead armadillo by the roadside four miles east of Oxford, Ohio, near the Indiana border — the first formally documented armadillo to have migrated to the state.
Read more at armadillos are in Ohio.
Posted in Animals | Tags: Armadillos
The Revelator reported
The Ocean Cleanup is a social-media and fundraising powerhouse. So why hasn’t the nonprofit been similarly successful in removing much plastic from the ocean — and how many marine animals have been killed along the way? David Shiffman examines why some so-called big ideas fail.
Read more at Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis
Posted in Environment | Tags: Marine Plastic Pollution
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Posted in Birds, Talks | Tags: the healing power of of birdwatching
See the calendar of upcoming events for the East Bay Regional Parks at https://www.ebparks.org/calendar
Posted in Park, Walks & Hikes | Tags: East Bay Regional Parks
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