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 783 trips and 577 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.

The Bird of the Week is the Blackpoll Warbler
Photographed Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at Lion's Den Gorge Nature Preserve

So far in day 140 of 2012 we have seen 207 species. Last year at this time we had seen 204.

The BirdWalker 2012 Wall Calendar is available now at my Cafepress store. It's a great gift for any bird lover or fan of the light and colors of the western United States.