Bourbon, Bastards, and Birds.

2 min read 2022-02-20 23:15:00

Look To My Coming At First Light On The Fifth Day

A female Allen's Hummingbird shares a feeder with a male Anna's. With new friends like these, I have embarked on a brave new Geri Birding voyage.

8 min read 2021-01-13 08:08:00

From 2017-2019, I had seen but only a single Snow Goose in the now legendary Rancho de Bastardos Five Mile Radius. In the fall of 2020 I saw three!

9 min read 2020-09-01 09:22:00

California Scrub-Jays were daily yard visitors for a good part of the summer but are currently all but undetectable from the yard, although they are

13 min read 2020-07-02 10:59:00

We got nice looks at Collared Aracaris while kicking it in front of our rooms at Hotel Gavilan, while trying-but-not-really to take afternoon breaks

7 min read 2020-06-16 23:00:00

What else to do in these uncertain days of turmoil and unrest than to retreat into sweet sweet NOSTALGIA. The following tales are plucked from a six

5 min read 2020-06-11 13:53:00

Tomás: birder, surfer, lurker, intertidal scavenger, globetrotter, fungiphile, gourmand, Ween scholar, radio personality.... Attempting to put

6 min read 2020-05-11 03:10:00

Back to Costa Rica. I am going to attempt to execute this post with concision and precision.One afternoon I scheduled us for a boat trip on the

11 min read 2020-04-28 05:29:00

I have seen countless Anna's Hummingbirds in my life and I will admit I no longer look at each one with child-like wonder, or even its rare and

8 min read 2020-04-13 02:00:00

Ok! Well, like usual, I'm doing an awful job at blogging this bird trip...but we all knew that's what would happen. You would think that being

8 min read 2020-03-22 21:12:00

Well, well, well...it's just a whole new world out there, isn't it? Here in Santa Clara County, the Coronavirus Capitol of California, we have been

9 min read 2020-03-12 06:45:00

Wow, we made it back just in time! Greetings from San Jose, California, which is now deep in the shadow of coronavirus. While things are increasingly

3 min read 2020-02-14 07:34:00

Seven years. It's been seven years since I have had my face melted off by Resplendent Quetzal, seven years since being crippled by an appropriately

8 min read 2020-02-04 07:21:00

While Santa Clara is not known as one of the premiere gulling counties in the state, that is not because there are a lack of gulls. There are many

4 min read 2020-01-14 03:45:00

Do you get to see Evening Grosbeaks often? I don't. I haven't seen one in years. The lowlands of the South Bay are, unsurprisingly, a poor place to

12 min read 2020-01-06 00:00:00

A Ruby-crowned Kinglet unleashes a terrifying bellow into the chilly radius air. Photographed on the Guadalupe River Trail.There has been an