Geotripper's California Birds

We been really hunting for owls on our last few trips. We haven't seen many this year, and had become curious if there are actually fe...

I don't see a lot of owls because they are mostly active at night, and I'm not. Mostly they are a ghostly presence on fences in th...

It's spring and the big birds are nesting. We've kept an eye on four or five Osprey nests that we know of in our region on the Tuo...

I seem to see these birds at one time of the year, as I posted on them last May, and a year earlier in late April. We were at Turlock Lake...

It was a beautiful spring day, so we headed out for a short excursion up the Tuolumne River. We hunted for birds at Turlock Lake State Re...

We've been gone for 6 of the last 8 weeks, so we missed out on the childhood of the nestling Ospreys that are living along the Tuolumn...

The Western Meadowlark ( Sturnella neglecta ) has such a breathtakingly beautiful song, but it has some beautiful coloring as well. I was ...

I did a brief little explore on Sunday to the area around Turlock Lake and the Joe Domecq Wilderness on the Tuolumne River in the Sierra N...

It's the same place and maybe the same kind of bird , and it seems like Turlock Lake State Recreational Area is the place for me to se...

Okay, I was half-joking when I said in the last post that I would try to capture photos of a Downy Woodpecker for the next post, but that ...

Turlock Lake State Recreation Area is a reservoir that stores irrigation water for the valley floordownstream. It consists of low hills co...

I finished a pile of grading and the sun was still up this afternoon, so Mrs. Geotripper and I headed a few miles east to Turlock Lake Sta...