Geotripper's California Birds

  It was the biggest weather event of our year, in which we received about a third of our yearly precipitation in just two days. In the afte...

As we get towards the end of the year, I start to review the lists and try and figure out which birds I love, but have not yet seen. Two wee...

We been really hunting for owls on our last few trips. We haven't seen many this year, and had become curious if there are actually fe...

Tell me when you see it... Do you see it yet? We were out at the Merced National Wildlife Refuge today and Mrs. Geotripper kept say...

I don't see a lot of owls because they are mostly active at night, and I'm not. Mostly they are a ghostly presence on fences in th...

I don't usually post about the same bird on successive days, but it turns out that Mrs. Geotripper was not with me yesterday when I sa...

I don't know why this is...Burrowing Owls ( Athene cunicularia ) live all over North and South America, especially on grasslands of th...

The California prairielands used to extend in an unbroken band across the lower reaches of the Sierra Mother Lode and the four-hundred mil...