Geotripper's California Birds

These weeks of spring are when my personal favorite treasures arrive in the vicinity of the Tuolumne River Parkway Trail, and every walk i...

I'm trying to put together a few posts on the birds I saw while traveling in the Pacific Northwest, but I keep getting interrupted by ...

The colors remind me of tinted calendar pictures and postcards from the 1930s that I recalled seeing at my grandmother's house long ag...

One of the great joys of fall is watching for the new arrivals and migrants who pass through our region. I've seen some beautiful warb...

There was a time not that long ago when I thought birding wouldn't be interesting because there didn't seem to be all that many ki...

I'm posting a fuzzy poorly composed picture of a Western Tanager ( Piranga ludoviciana ) for "Murphy's Law" reasons: if ...

I know they are out there. I've seen them, fleeting glances as they flit among the treetops, studiously avoiding any opportunity to be...

Photo by Mrs. Geotripper Being in a national park can cause people to do things they normally wouldn't in any other place. For examp...

A couple of weeks ago I saw a Yellow Warbler ( Setophaga petechia ) for the first time, and posted a fuzzy picture . I said I'd work h...

The pictures aren't up to my personal standards for non-fuzziness, but I was able to add some new birds to my tally of species seen al...

I have been photographing birds seriously for a year now, so I will be occasionally digging into the archives for some interesting shots. ...