Saturday, February 3, 2018

You Haven't Heard of a California Scrub Jay? Evolution Explains That, Sort Of

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There's a maxim among field geologists...one can go through an entire field season and end up never collecting a sample of the single ...
Thursday, February 1, 2018

Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk on the California Prairie

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We saw quite a few species on our short excursions through the California prairie last weekend. As we drove south from the Willms Ranch st...

Pied-billed Grebes in some New Places, on the Tuolumne River and the Willms Road

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It's been a whole two weeks since I posted some pictures of a Pied-billed Grebe ( Podilymbus podiceps ) at the Merced National Wildl...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

A Secretive Sora at the Willms Ranch Pond on California's Prairie

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California has some special landscapes that are not part of the usual tourist routes. One of those unheralded ecosystems is the prairie l...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

What? Another Burrowing Owl?

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I don't usually post about the same bird on successive days, but it turns out that Mrs. Geotripper was not with me yesterday when I sa...
Sunday, January 28, 2018

Burrowing Owl on What Remains of the California Prairie

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I don't know why this is...Burrowing Owls ( Athene cunicularia ) live all over North and South America, especially on grasslands of th...
Friday, January 26, 2018

A Somewhat Rare Visitor on the Tuolumne Parkway Trail: Common Goldeneyes

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Now just to be clear, I mean "rare" in the sense that they haven't been seen on this stretch of the Tuolumne River where it ...