Geotripper's California Birds

I've had some pleasant finds of late on our birding journeys of late. We ventured out on Monday to the prairies that lie east of our t...

This might not be the right distance to meet a Bald Eagle ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus ). I grant you that. But my camera does have a prett...

California has some special landscapes that are not part of the usual tourist routes. One of those unheralded ecosystems is the prairie l...

The western foothills of the Sierra Nevada are one of the least-known parts of the range. Every year, millions of tourists drive quickly t...

Although I no doubt had seen them, I didn't recognize Horned Larks (Eremophila alpestris) until early last year during my travels thro...

One has to start somewhere. I've noticed that the first chance I ever have to shoot a new species, it is usually under less than ideal...

After torturing you with fuzzy indistinct photos of the Burrowing Owl I saw on Sunday in the prairielands, I thought it only fair to shar...

With the first days of spring, we are starting to explore the Sierra Nevada foothills and what's left of the California prairie in the...

Meadowlarks have one of the prettiest bird songs around. I grew up hearing them on my Grandparent's ranch when I was a child, so whenev...

Well, the romance was over quickly. One display of those bright red shoulder epaulets from the Red-winged Black Bird ( Agelaius phoeniceus...

We took one of our short excursions yesterday, into the low Sierra Nevada foothills near Knights Ferry on the Stanislaus River. The region...