I spent this past weekend at the coast, travelling to Arcata for a Northern California Audubon Council meeting hosted by the Redwood Region Audubon...

Lewis’s Woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) In Flight, photos by Larry Jordan Driving home from work last week I finally saw my first Lewis’s Woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis)...

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking successive autumns....

The California Quail (Callipepla californica) is the California state bird, inhabiting scrub, broken chaparral and woodland edges primarily in California, Oregon, Washington and Baja California.  They are...

According to Birds of North America Online, the Great-tailed Grackle’s (Quiscalus mexicanus) breeding range has been expanding northward for several years. I must say...

The California Thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum) is endemic to coastal and foothill areas of California, extending into adjacent areas of northwest Baja California.  Yup, another California...

I was lucky enough to get off work early the other day and thought I would head out toward Battle Creek Wildlife Area and...

Traveling back home from a California Burrowing Owl Consortium meeting last week, I stopped at the Colusa National Wildlife Refuge, which is part of...