Geotripper's California Birds

By color scheme alone they are one of my favorite birds. I'm just partial to blue that way, the darker the better (I've noticed this...

We're continuing our journey to cooler places (two weeks ago...I'm baking right now). We spent our first night at Albee Creek Camp...

Before I  became a geologist, all rocks were gray, and there were a few crystals, but all of them were quartz. Then, a small bit of educat...

I still catching up on the richness of birds that I've seen and photographed this summer. Back in May our Geology Club took a tour of ...

They're one of my favorite sights on the west campus of Modesto Junior College where I work, the Western Bluebird ( Sialia mexicana )....

The storms of 2017 are changing many things. It's been a week since I wandered over to our campus "mini-wilderness", a drain...

It's been gloomy of late, what with six days of rain, and five days of fog and overcast skies. The conditions weren't ideal for ph...

I haven't seen many Western Bluebirds ( Sialia mexicana ) of late, more from not getting out enough as much as any other reason, but I...

Happy New Year! May you be blessed by the Bluebird of Happiness this year! It's taken a long time to post my first birds of the new...

We took a little picnic on the Tuolumne River at Basso Bridge this afternoon. I've become ever more aware of the treasure we have in t...

I was home briefly from my travels (a situation that will be rectified very soon as we hit the road tomorrow), and I wanted to see who was...

This little Western Bluebird ( Sialia mexicana ) might look bedraggled, but I think it's actually quite happy (the Bluebird of happine...

One of my favorites seems to have returned to the region, presumably coming down from the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. I haven't s...