Geotripper's California Birds

The Acorn Woodpeckers ( Melanerpes formicivorus ) have been very busy this new year. There is a small colony (four or five) of them on the...

I don't know who is responsible for the names of the different flocks of birds, but somehow a grouping of woodpeckers is a "kett...

If they took up residence in my yard, I would probably not like them as much. But they haven't, and so the Acorn Woodpecker ( Melanerp...

Really really sorry, Randy. It just doesn't flow like "Happy as a monkey in a monkey tree", but I kind of think of that song...

I was out walking on the Tuolumne River as usual this morning, and saw practically no birds until I finished and had returned to the parki...

Sometimes bird-hunting happens when we're not expecting it. I was briefly in Southern California last week and we were in downtown Hem...

I have such a backlog of bird pictures accumulated in the last three weeks. I've been to the Cascades of Northern California, the Merc...

I realize the explanation is a bit more prosaic, but I couldn't help but think that this Acorn Woodpecker ( Melanerpes formicivorus ) ...

The naming for groupings of birds is a fascinating linguistic affair. Apparently they date from the Middle Ages or earlier . My favorites ...