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 discovered a leucistic Black Phoebe at the Merced National Wildlife Refuge last week, and that distracted me for awhile from the actual...

It's always bittersweet when I see the last of the tropical migrants in our region. The orioles, the grosbeaks and the warblers head s...

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

Some very beautiful birds are back from their summer sojourn in the wilds of the far north. The Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis) have bee...

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

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...

Let's face it. The Sandhill Cranes ( Grus canadensis ) are one of our most charismatic local species, and the fact that they spend muc...

We were leaving the house to run some errands this afternoon. We heard an odd sound coming from the sky. We looked far and wide and couldn...

(Yes, this is the same post as the one I just did at Geotripper. For all I know, I may different readers of my two blogs!) It's no s...

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...