The Woodie (or "Woody") is a part of the 1960's southern California surf culture . However, one would normally not expect to h...

You may not believe it--because it certainly was a surprise to me when I found out--but not everyone is as fanatical about bird watching as ...

Shrikes are interesting songbirds. With their sharply curved beak they hunt larger insects and even prey half their body size such as small ...

Returning from a long road trip to northern California, Marlene and I veered through the Carrizo Plain . We left the smoggy oil fields of Ke...

A year ago I wrote about the identification the larger orange-billed terns in southern California (see ID: Elegant, Royal, and Caspian Terns...