Geotripper's California Birds

Yellow-headed Blackbird ( Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus ) After last week's discovery of Yellow-headed Blackbirds at the Bear Creek Uni...

It doesn't happen every year. Since Mrs. Geotripper and I have been birdwatching, we've found this incredibly beautiful bird only 10...

Yesterday was pretty exciting as such things go. I started the morning with a discovery of Bullocks Orioles on the Tuolumne River, but Mr...

First off, it really sucks to be the snake in this little narrative. It was on the losing end of the battles that occur in the "circl...

No, not those kite things on a string. These were White-tailed Kites ( Elanus leucurus ) at the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge. We wer...

It's true that we were just there last week, and that I posted pictures of the Yellow-headed Blackbirds (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalu...

The Bear Creek Unit of the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge gets a great deal less attention than some of the other birding "hotspo...

We were fighting the crowds at a couple of shopping centers in Turlock, saw that the sun was sinking in the west, and just simply decided ...

Yeah, spring is just a few weeks away. We were out at the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge a few weeks ago, and the Red-wing Blackbirds (...

During our visit to the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge, we saw several new birds, but there were some familiar ones as well. One of the...

Mrs. Geotripper got the prize shot the other day of the American Avocet ( Recurvirostra americana ) that we saw at the San Luis National W...

This was an absolute first for me. We've been going to the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge multiple times over the last two years or...