Geotripper's California Birds

Our local environment hosts around five species of hummingbirds, although the Calliope or Costa's Hummingbirds have rarely been sighte...

I'm not done with my posts on Hawaiian birds; I finished with the natives, but there are lots of other birds to see there. But in the ...

Female hummingbirds can be hard to tell apart. I'm going with the white eye spot and slightly curved beak to call this one a Black-chi...

I've hesitated putting these pictures up, because I'm not fully confident in my identification of these birds as Black-chinned Hum...

My walk last week along the Tuolumne River Parkway Trail at the edge of the Sierra Nevada netted what has become a dependable species. Des...

Go figure. I identified a Black-chinned Hummingbird ( Archilochus alexandri ) for the first time only last Sunday ( posted here ), and fou...

It's been awhile since I've posted any birds. I was on a series of trips that extended from Canada almost to Mexico, and I found l...