Monarch Butterflies

A couple of places near Bodega Bay are among the northernmost publicly accessible spots to see wintering monarchs. The numbers aren’t as spectacular as they are farther south — places in Pismo Beach and Santa Cruz where more than 100,000 monarchs gather for the winter. But even a few dozen (or several thousand in a good Bodega Bay year) all bunched up together on a single tree branch are something to see