Geotripper's California Birds

One of the wonderful pleasures of spring bird-watching is the possibilities of catching sight of the new chicks. The birds of course go to...

The Red-tailed Hawk babies have hatched! I've been watching the activity around the nest since late February when I first noticed the...

Things have been afoot at MJC's West Campus over the last few weeks. A lot of birds have been agitated by the presence of some Red-...

Red-tailed Hawks ( Buteo jamaicensis ) have a rather strained and tenuous relationship with the other birds on the West Campus of Modesto ...

I always try, but I rarely get good pictures of hawks or eagles in flight. It's not easy to focus in on a moving target and get much o...

We saw quite a few species on our short excursions through the California prairie last weekend. As we drove south from the Willms Ranch st...

The Red-tailed Hawk ( Buteo jamaicensis ) is probably the most common raptor in northern and central America (it's also endemic here, ...

Hawks for me are skittish. Probably with good reason, they don't like it much when humans get too close. So, although I see them often...

Unlike many colleges and schools, our campus has been blessed with a lot of land, and some of it has been kept as undeveloped habitat. I...

It was not necessarily the best time of the year to go to a wildlife refuge devoted to protecting winter migrants. In this drought year, t...

The Great Valley is a great place for raptors. Despite the intense disruption of the natural landscape, they've benefited in some ways...

There is a dead snag above the Tuolumne River near the bluffs of the future river walk park. I have to give it a look every time I wander ...

I admit it. Hawks confuse the heck out of me. There are so many morphs and variations in the many kinds of hawks that I pretty much lose a...