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 777 trips and 572 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 Orange-crowned Warbler
Photographed Saturday, February 21, 2009 at Merced NWR

So far in day 54 of 2012 we have seen 112 species. Last year at this time we had seen 100.

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.

We also counted 42 Sparrow sp. and 2 Blackbird sp.

We also recorded 200 Sandpiper sp., 200 Gull sp., and 150 Blackbird sp.