Geotripper's California Birds

You just never know when a moment of beauty and grandeur will happen. People look at me strangely whenever I go out the door on a mundane er...

Really, both of the questions in the title are easily answered. It's called a White-tailed Kite ( Elanus leucurus ) because it has a whi...

No, not those kite things on a string. These were White-tailed Kites ( Elanus leucurus ) at the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge. We wer...

I had quite a surprise the other day while wandering through my usual haunts along the Tuolumne River in Waterford. I was having a relativ...

Sometimes Mrs. Geotripper (well, everybody, really) gently derides me for hauling my camera everywhere I go, and I always say one never kn...