Geotripper's California Birds

We've been journeying down south to the Merced National Wildlife Refuge every weekend for the last month, watching for the arrival of th...

This was an extraordinary day. It's not all that often that you get to see a bird rare enough that you probably won't see it again...

There are rarer birds, like the Red-breasted Sapsucker I saw a few days ago , or the really rare birds like the Rose-breasted Grosbeak th...

I was picking someone up at Sacramento Airport the other day, and had enough time to make a brief stop at the Cosumnes River Preserve bet...

I see a lot of Black Phoebes ( Sayornis nigricans ) in our region, and somehow I've only posted about them once . They are a member...