Geotripper's California Birds

It often seems to happen this way. I don't post for a long time, then I finally do, and like the next day I get far better pictures than...

I really miss blogging. I miss the freedom and creativity that comes with writing these posts, but the COVID pandemic has affected my output...

We headed out to Death Valley National Park last weekend, but our real destination was the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge a little f...

So here's the story about this bird, a Phainopepla ( Phainopepla nitens ). They are one of my favorite birds, in part because I don...

It's hard to choose a favorite bird to post on National Bird Day. I have lots of favorites and they change from day to day. So I'm...

Yes, I've used that joke before, in 2015 , but memories are short, right? And I blogged about Phainopeplas just a month ago when I saw...

It has been a couple of extraordinary days walking along the Tuolumne River. Two days in a row I saw new species of warbler for the first ...

I've only seen them a few times on the Tuolumne, but it is always a delight to see a Phainopepla ( Phainopepla nitens ). When you walk...

It's been a few weeks since I've been able to get down to the river trail on the Tuolumne. There've been business and field t...

I'm home from my Christmas travels, and immediately walked down to the Tuolumne River to see how the trail work was progressing. I was...

I feel like I'm only scratching the surface when it comes to identifying bird species along the Tuolumne River in Waterford where the ...

This is a bird of the tropical southwest deserts, and as such is pretty close to the edge of its northernmost range here along the Tuolumn...

It's a little bit phuzzy, but I phinally got a phew pictures of a Phainopepla! Your bird-brained host blogger has been traveling in some...