Recent Posts Tagged With 'California'

• Bird Photography Weekly

  Posted on Monday October 27th, 2008 at 06:52 in travel, photos, male, babies, feeding, California, california quail, codorniz californiana

  “Hey, what you lookin’ at?” There is something endering about California Quail.  I am not sure if it is the fact that they are everywhere along the sides of the road or their plumpness, or their great family life or that little top...

• Wordless Wednesday

  Posted on Wednesday July 30th, 2008 at 02:07 in California, Carnival, immature, junco, juvenile, lbj, oregon junco

• Almost Favorite Woodpecker

  Posted on Friday July 18th, 2008 at 15:10 in California, tree, woodpecker, larder, acorn woodpecker, melanerpes formicivorus

  Out of the corner of my eye, I happened to see the flash of white on wings.  Tracking the bird to a tree, I saw it stash an acorn in a tiny acorn-sized hole.  I walked around the tree looking it up and down.  The whole tree was a pantry full of c...

• Hawk on a wire

  Posted on Thursday July 17th, 2008 at 08:54 in Mystery, California, hawk, wire, red-shouldered

  What the?  I slammed on the brakes and swerved onto the shoulder of the road.  I had seen the oddest hawk on a wire.   It had a huge eye and gray head.  We watched it as it watched us.  We couldn’t figure it out.  Big eye, no huge eye, ...

• Birding in Napa Valley

  Posted on Wednesday July 16th, 2008 at 22:26 in California, birding, napa valley, birdwatching, western grebe, aechmophorus occidentalis

  Currently in between business conferences, I am loafing in Napa Valley.   Unable to find a bird guide (Grrrr), I randomly drove around this morning looking for birds.  With the countryside being so dry, I thought it would make the most sense to ...

• Birding around San Diego

  Posted on Saturday July 12th, 2008 at 10:27 in san diego, guide, California, birding, birdwatching, silver strand, black-headed grosbeak, mission trails park, claude edwards, elegant tern, bell's vireo

  You know how once you have been to a place several times birding on your own and have seen most of the easy/common birds how frustrating it becomes, right?  Where are the other harder-to-find birds?  Are there local hot spots?  This trip I gave up...

• Off to California

  Posted on Thursday July 10th, 2008 at 05:14 in California, trip, birding

  I am leaving for a 10 day, mostly business but hopefully some pleasure, trip to California.  The bins are packed, as well as my well-thumbed Peterson’s guide to Western Birds.  I hope to meet up with a fellow birder in San Diego to get a peek...

• The Importance of Sparrows

  Posted on Tuesday June 3rd, 2008 at 06:00 in California, birding, bird watching, warblers, sparrows, savannah sparrow, lbjs, little brown jobs

  Commonly called LBJs or Little Brown Jobs, sparrows are notoriously hard to identify. This one is a Savannah Sparrow. Can you see the little bit of yellow by the eye? Classic. I am fond of sparrows. They are ubiquitous yet overlooked in favor of ...