Greetings, Mendobirders Last Saturday, 28 Aug 2004, I saw a RED-EYED VIREO shortly after sunrise in some valley oaks along West Road near the Potter Valley ...
HAWK TALK! "Kli kli kli kli kli!" These cries may emanate from the Public Room at the Grace Hudson Museum on the evening of Thursday, September 16. Acclaimed...
Calendar Announcements Thursday, Sept. 16, 7 p.m.: "Kli kli kli kli kli!" If we're lucky, a live American kestrel will electrify the crowd with this call at a...
Hi all, I want to respectfully disagree with Brian's assessment of this being a juvenile Caracara. The bird clearly had two generations of feathers, with old...
The juvenile CRESTED CARACARA found by Ron LeValley and company this morning (9/4) at around 9am was refound in the Arcata Bottoms at Mad River Rd & Miller Rd...
Sun, 05 Sep 2004 -- Today at about 1:45 PM (just as you were pulling away, Matthew) a large, pale tan, square-tailed dove flew over the Longs parking lot. It...
This evening at the Kelsey Creek outlet I found a Common Moorhen and a Red-necked Phalarope.Then just as I was ready to leave I saw a Least Bittern (adult...
At the Kelsey Creek outlet this morning I heard 2 Least Bittern's calling and saw a Wilson's Snipe . There was also a new bird for the outlet list(#155); a...
Dear Mendobirders, The Falcon Flyer, Ukiah Audubon's newsletter, went out on Wednesday, September 8, and still hasn't arrived in mailboxes on Monday morning,...
Hello, Mendo Seabirders, Shearwater Journeys will be offering a number of pelagic trips from Fort Bragg this fall. We still have spaces on the following trips:...
Debi Shearwater
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Sep 16, 2004 3:07 am
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Fri, 17 Sep 2004 -- I birded the Ukiah Sewage Treatment Plant this morning from 8:00-10:00. They have been adding water to the middle pond for several weeks...
Hi, Seabirders, Wow! What an exceptional two days of seabirding! The highlights (!) were a DARK-RUMPED PETREL AND A STREAKED SHEARWATER, both found by Steve...
Debi Shearwater
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Sep 21, 2004 8:40 pm
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Wed, 22 Sep 2004 -- On my jog this morning on Burris Lane there was a bustle of fall bird activity. On the pond were some NORTHERN SHOVELERS, AMERICAN WIGEON,...
Good morning Seabirders, An image of the STREAKED SHEARWATER that was observed on the September 17, 2004 Shearwater Journey's pelagic trip from Bodega Bay is...
Debi Shearwater
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Sep 25, 2004 12:37 pm
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Greetings, You know it is a slow day at sea when you have equal numbers of warblers and albatrosses. At least there was some variety among the warblers. A...
This past weekend (Sept 25-28) Larry Siemens, Stan Snyder, Floyd Hayes, Paul Hawks and I birded the Mendo coast from Miner Hole Rd to Lake Cleone. Highlight...
Matthew Matthiessen
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Sep 27, 2004 10:08 pm
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Tuesday - 28 September 2004 - 1:35 PM - A very high flying "V" of 48-50 Greater white-fronted Geese flew in a southeasterly direction over the UC Hopland...
Robert J. Keiffer
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Sep 28, 2004 10:55 pm
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Thu, 30 Sep 2004 -- It was too foggy at Lake Mendocino this morning for me to do my usual survey, but there were some interesting birds to be found. The water...
Thu, 30 Sep 2004 -- Dorothy Tobkin birded the south coast and found 4 EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVES in a pine tree next to the Thompson's on Duxbury Road, a...
Greetings Mendobirders: For the last 3 mornings I have birded with Jennifer Potts in the chaparral fields on the upper ridges of South Cow Mountain in both...
Greetings Mendobirders: Toby Tobkin reports 5 Lapland Longspurs at the Mendocino Headlands this morning. The birds were just south of the sister-city...
Saturday - 2 October 2004 - Ollie Kolkmann reported to me that somebody pciked up a broken-winged bird in Recreation Grove in willits yesterday. REcreation...
Bob Keiffer
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Oct 3, 2004 4:55 pm
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Mon, 04 Oct 2004 -- This morning Dorothy Tobkin saw 6, possibly 7, LAPLAND LONGSPURS at the Mendocino headlands in the vicinity of the Sister City monument....
Monday October 4, 2004 At noon today there was a Horned Lark on the path south of the Friendship Monument at the Mendocino Headlands, near the Lapland...
David Jensen
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Oct 5, 2004 1:25 pm
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Thursday - October 7, 2004 - Today I birded Miner Hole Road and the Garcia River, followed by a quick visit to Mendocino headlands. The highlights included...
Bob Keiffer
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Oct 8, 2004 1:06 am
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Thursday, October 7, 2004. As the heavy fog began to lift around noon, I counted at least 24 White-tailed Kites in the cattle fields along a quarter-mile...
David Jensen
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Oct 8, 2004 2:05 pm
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With periodic spikes in the population of California Vole (Microtus californicus) on the coast, very large numbers of WT Kites can show up. I have seen 70+...
2 Calendar Announcements: Thursday, October 21, 7 p.m. "The Amazing Life of Acorn Woodpeckers" - Walt Koenig, the world authority on acorn woodpeckers, will...
World Authority to Speak on Acorn Woodpeckers: Beautiful, Bizarre, and Ubiquitous by Kate Marianchild Most of us have seen the beautiful birds that flash...