Geotripper's California Birds

These last few days have been truly beautiful in the Great Valley of California. A couple of weak low pressure systems blew out the dust ...

I find it staggering sometimes that I lived in the Modesto area for more than two decades before I discovered that one of the most awesom...

They don't call them songbirds for nothing. Many birds produce wonderful melodies that lift the heart and all that kind of thing, but ...

When I was a scout back in another era we often introduced the new guys to our trip by conducting a snipe hunt, chasing imaginary birds w...

Momentous things are happening in the Great Valley this month! Wave after wave of migratory birds are starting to arrive at the string of n...

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...

I wonder sometimes which they consider "home". Is it the Great Valley of California where they spend the winter, thriving on th...

I always try, but I rarely get good pictures of hawks or eagles in flight. It's not easy to focus in on a moving target and get much o...

These beautiful birds are among the reasons I took up bird photography a couple of years ago. I was astounded to find that Sandhill Cranes...

Three Sandhill Cranes soar against a backdrop of hundreds of geese I lived here for a quarter century absolutely ignorant of the dramati...

I don't why this made me think of Thanksgiving, but I was walking out at the San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge this afternoo...