Geotripper's California Birds

Let's understand first how rare this bird actually is. In California north of Bakersfield, it's been seen just once, near Moss Landi...

Um...those don't look like geese to me... The San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge is a marvelous bit of the (almost) original...

In early October the birds numbered in the dozens or hundreds. By late November they were in the thousands and tens of thousands . And th...

It's been quite some time since I've been out to the San Joaquin National Wildlife Refuge, so when I got a few extra hours in my d...

I fell for the ruse. I was duped into Christmas shopping on a Saturday, because it included a quick trip out to the Beckwith Road viewing ...

There were rumors "flying" about in birding circles this week about a Brant that made an appearance at the Beckwith Road viewing...

The next members of the goose parade have arrived at the San Joaquin National Wildlife Refuge. I have no idea if they were here last week ...

One of the pleasures of the fall semester is that short break I have between the afternoon lab and the evening class. That's just enou...

Does it seem like there have been a lot of Sandhill Cranes ( Grus canadensis ) in my blogs of late? There's a reason for that. They...

One of the finest moments of my day comes on Tuesdays when I have a spare hour between the end of a lab and evening office hours. The Beck...

Greater White-fronted Geese at the San Joaquin NWR Between storms this week, I made the drive out to the viewing platform on Beckwith Ro...