Geotripper's California Birds

  It was the biggest weather event of our year, in which we received about a third of our yearly precipitation in just two days. In the afte...

I've had some pleasant finds of late on our birding journeys of late. We ventured out on Monday to the prairies that lie east of our t...

We saw quite a few species on our short excursions through the California prairie last weekend. As we drove south from the Willms Ranch st...

The western foothills of the Sierra Nevada are one of the least-known parts of the range. Every year, millions of tourists drive quickly t...

Meadowlarks have one of the prettiest bird songs around. I grew up hearing them on my Grandparent's ranch when I was a child, so whenev...

Another storm came through this morning, one of half a dozen this month that have dropped five inches of rain on the valley floor. That...

I realize the explanation is a bit more prosaic, but I couldn't help but think that this Acorn Woodpecker ( Melanerpes formicivorus ) ...

Well, the romance was over quickly. One display of those bright red shoulder epaulets from the Red-winged Black Bird ( Agelaius phoeniceus...

I took a hike to the top of Table Mountain in the Sierra Nevada Mother Lode today. It wasn't a birding trip, but there were a few of t...

One of the most beautiful of bird songs is that of the Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta). I have seen few of them during the winter...