Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Avian Dinosaurs: Bald Eagles at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge

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Sometimes I am reminded that the dinosaurs never actually went extinct. They were decimated certainly, and their present-day species don...
Sunday, December 15, 2019

The Wonderful Woodpeckers of the Tuolumne River

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One of the constant joys of birdwatching along the Tuolumne River along the Parkway Trail is the variety of woodpeckers who are almost eve...

A Well-Hidden White-Breasted Nuthatch on the Tuolumne River

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One of the most elusive of the birds I search for on the Tuolumne River. It's not that they are rare. They're found throughout our...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

At Least He Isn't Lonely...A Second Hooded Oriole This Winter on the Tuolumne River!

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The other day I posted about what I thought must be the loneliest bird in all of California. There was a male Hooded Oriole ( Icterus cuc...
Wednesday, December 4, 2019

The Bird That Shouldn't Be There: Hooded Oriole on the Tuolumne River

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Today's walk along the Tuolumne River was extraordinary. I got there just as the latest storm ended, so there were no people on the t...
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Sunday, December 1, 2019

Red-Necked Grebe in the Siuslaw River Estuary at Florence, Oregon

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Thanksgiving is not one of the times that I expect to see a great many birds. I'm usually traveling through the Cascades and Siskiyou ...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Catching Up With Our California Endemic: The Yellow-billed Magpie

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I see them pretty much every day, so it's easy sometimes to forget that this is an exceedingly rare bird. There are less than 200,000 ...