Geotripper's California Birds

My friends in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and Canada might not be much impressed by a sighting of a Bald Eagle on the Tuolumne River Parkw...

Sometimes I am reminded that the dinosaurs never actually went extinct. They were decimated certainly, and their present-day species don...

Our trip to British Columbia didn't have a great many chances for birdwatching. Teaching a field course is like that...time after time...

It's summer as of yesterday, and so of course Geotripper and Mrs. Geotripper are on the road to parts unknown. We'll meet in a few...

It was pretty exciting to see a Bald Eagle in our neck of the woods last Wednesday . And I was pretty sure it was a one-time sighting give...

Sometimes a new bird discovery is a quiet affair. The other day, for instance, I saw my first Fox Sparrows along the Tuolumne Parkway Trai...

A unique viewpoint of a Bald Eagle at Cape Disappointment, WA. Photo by Mrs. Geotripper We don't see Bald Eagles ( Haliaeetus leucoc...

We spent part of the weekend out at the coast, but coming home in Bay Area traffic was no fun. As we approached the Great Valley, we deci...

We've never had a disappointing trip to the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge between Williams and Willows in California's Great...

It's probably no secret that I'm in Oregon this week attempting to see the total Solar eclipse. Time will tell if we manage to fin...

Photo by Mrs. Geotripper In all of the excitement of seeing the Bald Eagle yesterday , we almost missed another. While we were parked an...

Photo by Mrs. Geotripper I spent the better part of two weeks in the Pacific Northwest visiting relatives for the holidays, and I knew w...

If you've been following my last few posts, you'll know that I was in St. Louis over the weekend for a wedding. Being not one of t...