Geotripper's California Birds

I've been at this birding thing for about five years now, which marks me as a rank amateur, but by now I've started to recognize t...

I see that it has been an entire month since I've posted pictures of Yellow-rumped Warblers (also called Audubon's Warblers, latin...

In the days of my ignorance (actually not a thing of the past), all small birds were sparrows of some kind. Imagine my surprise when I sta...

I'm finally seeing some warblers this week on campus while I'm working. I don't know if it was me, but the birds seemed to ...

There have been precious few chances for birdwatching of late, just stolen moments during lunch breaks, or a rare jaunt down to the Tuolum...

I've seen a lot of interesting birds in the last few months, both with traveling out of state and on local field trips. Sometimes it i...

There are lots of Yellow-rumped Warblers ( Setophaga coronata ) out and about this time of year. Once I started watching birds a bit more ...

It was almost surreal watching the parade of different species visiting the water spigots in the campground at Lava Beds National Monument...

We were on the north rim of Grand Canyon last week enjoying a spectacular sunset when I noticed rustlings in the underbrush. I snapped a c...

The high country of Yosemite National Park is just beginning to come into spring. The snow melted early and the spring will be short, but...

Yellow-rumped Warblers ( Setophaga coronata ) are one of the most common warbler species found in North America. I've had to work pret...

A Yellow-rumped Warbler ( Setophaga coronata ) has been seen on this blog before, when we saw a number of them at Chaw'se a few weeks...