Geotripper's California Birds

Life is uncertain right now, and things are chaotic, but it is sometimes nice to know in the midst of sadness and troubles that the natura...

This portion of the canyon would be inundated by the proposed reservoir. The Diablo Range is one of the principle "sub-ranges...

 Allow me a few moments to relate a story... Those who've known me in my latter fatter days will have a hard time believing that I w...

I've been enjoying the arrivals of the tropical migrants in our region after the long winter. The Hooded Orioles , the Bullock's O...

I don't usually post bird blogs back-to-back, but I was working on the last one with the Spotted Towhees yesterday and didn't quit...

Western Kingbirds ( Tyrannus verticalis ) make quite a few appearances on my blog . I think it is because they are a migrant, and their a...

One can tell when spring is coming around here in California's Great Valley. There's the greenery, of course, but (sorry, snowboun...

( Updated )There were a couple of surprises on our west campus today. I was out for the usual walk at lunchtime and was out in a remote co...

One of the first of our tropical migrants has arrived in our region (who knows when they really arrived, but this was the first I've s...

Oh, it's nothing bad that's going to happen to the birds, it's just that in the next few weeks they will all disappear from th...

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

I wandered out to the future river park in Waterford today, and saw my first Western Kingbird of the season. They spend their winters in C...