Showing posts with label CSU Stanislaus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CSU Stanislaus. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Those Tropical Kingbirds! A Fun Coincidence...

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Tropical Kingbird, Florence Oregon, Nov. 2022 In October of 2020 during the height of the Covid epidemic, I was beginning the habit of walki...
Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Black-crowned Night Herons in the Daytime!

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Busy days! I've found precious little time to post pictures in the last few weeks with the start of school and a major field studies t...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Ugly-cute, or Cute-ugly? Another Kind of Spring Arrival at CSU Stanislaus

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I can't decide if they are cute-ugly, or ugly-cute. In any case, these little technicolor chicks were hanging around Warrior Lake at t...
Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Life Sucks Sometimes. Let's Look at Some Baby Ducks.

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Spring is breaking out all over. At CSU Stanislaus, the Mallards ( Anas platyrhynchos ) have had their ducklings and eight or so were expl...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

A Long Distance Migrant...Swainson's Hawk at CSU Stanislaus

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One of these days, there is something I would really like to see. I would like to stand in the migratory path of the Swainson's Hawk a...
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

That Freaky Weird Eye...Double-crested Cormorant at CSU Stanislaus

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It is one of the most alien-like eyes in nature, in my view. I mean, sure, there's reptilian eyes with their cold emotionless stare, a...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

The Gifts of the Day: Black-crowned Night-Herons at CSU Stanislaus

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Some days are just gifts, and I can certainly say I've had more than my share. And this was one of those days for kind of a silly reas...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Searching for the Sage Thrasher, Our Rare Visitor at CSU Stanislaus

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There's a rare bird hanging out in the region (actually several, but this is the one I got to check on today). It's a Sage Thrash...
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

A Little Cross-species Bathing...Not That There's Anything Wrong With That...

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Mind you, I'm as tolerant as they come. I was running errands at CSU Stanislaus today and found that there were puddles all over the...
Friday, December 14, 2018

A Truly Rare Sighting at CSU Stanislaus: A Sage Thrasher

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The Grackles that I saw on Wednesday were a little bit unusual for this time of year, but today's sighting is truly rare: A Sage Thra...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

An Odd Late Season Sighting: Great-tailed Grackles at CSU Stanislaus

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I haven't seen too many birds at CSU Stanislaus of late. Ever since Daylight Savings, I've been arriving on campus after dark, whi...
Thursday, November 1, 2018

A Surprise at CSU Stanislaus: A Red-breasted Sapsucker

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A few weeks ago I was in Yosemite Valley and saw a Red-breasted Sapsucker, and was properly thrilled to get a couple of half-decent shots ...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

How to Tell a Great Egret from a Snowy Egret (and others)

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If you have trouble distinguishing between heron species, you are not alone! It helps though, if two of the species happen to be foraging ...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Black-crowned Night-Heron at CSU Stanislaus

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It's was time for final exams at CSU last week, but I arrived early enough to stroll around the campus to see what birds were out a...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Some More Spring Arrivals, But These Aren't Migrants: The Babies of CSU Stanislaus

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The babies are everywhere! I took the occasion to wander the campus of CSU Stanislaus in Turlock this afternoon. The landscape includes s...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Mallard Duck Family at CSU Stanislaus

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It turned into "Duck Week" here at Geotripper, and as I got to the end of the list of the more rarely seen species, I realized t...