Geotripper's California Birds

The babies are everywhere! I took the occasion to wander the campus of CSU Stanislaus in Turlock this afternoon. The landscape includes s...

It was a beautiful spring day, so we headed out for a short excursion up the Tuolumne River. We hunted for birds at Turlock Lake State Re...

With the cessation of the seemingly endless rains of the last month (okay, for us Californians it felt that way), the drainage pond on ou...

It's a bit of an odd title, but I'll explain. This sweet little family of Canada Geese ( Branta canadensis ) was feeding in the gr...

So here's a familiar bird. It's so familiar and widespread around these parts that I hadn't thought to post pictures of it on ...