Welcome to birdWalker, a website of birding photos and trip reports by Bill Walker and Mary Wisnewski, California birders based in Santa Clara County. We've been collecting our trip reports since 1996, we have now recorded 813 trips and 578 species.
Some of our favorite places to go birding include Charleston Slough and the Duck Pond in Palo Alto, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, and the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.
My book of photos from Costa Rica is available now at my Blurb bookstore. This book presents an overview of an intensive birding trip to Costa Rica. The 100+ photos are a great introduction to Costa Rica's birds and ecological zones, showcasing shorebirds on the western coast, the quetzals of the Talamanca Higlands, tropical diversity at La Selva, and a sampler of hummingbirds in the Central Volcanic mountain range.
So far in day 170 of 2013 we have seen 260 species. Last year at this time we had seen 207.
