Tue, 28 Feb 2006 -- This evening I saw a SHORT-EARED OWL in Lake County along Reclamation Road at 6:30-6:33 PM. Dave Woodward had flushed one earlier in the...
March 1, 2006 Dear North American Birds Contributors, The winter season has already come to a close so please send your noteworthy records from the Middle ...
Friday - March 3, 2006 - I just received a late notice about a strange owl in Round Valley north of the town of Covelo. The bird was seen by a local, casual...
Robert J. Keiffer
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Mar 3, 2006 7:05 pm
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Friends, Please copy and paste or forward to your friends to get the word out. Thanks very much, Kate Wildlife and the Oak Woodlands The complex web of life...
Friday - 3 March 2006 - This is to follow-up on the possible Snowy Owl in the Covelo/Round Valley area. I spoke with the original observer again this evening....
Bob Keiffer
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Mar 4, 2006 5:23 am
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Call for Entries: The Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society's Spring Birdathon fundraiser for SCVAS youth environmental education programs will take place April...
Here are some recent sightings: TUFTED DUCK: Male with a short tuft on 7 March and a male with a long tuft on 4 March, both at Borax Lake. Presumed hybrid...
Yesterday, Jim and I observed an Osprey hunting above the mouth of the Ten Mile River. It's behavior was just like the pair who nest back up the river...
Mike (who I used to bird with in WA many years ago) and MerryLynn Denny recently observed the following birds along the Mendocino coast: Laysan Albatross: 1...
Just a reminder. Wildlife and the Oak Woodlands The complex web of life among our local oak trees will be the subject of a slideshow/lecture by Bob Keiffer on...
Thu, 16 Mar 2006, 16:50 -- I just had a SLATE-COLORED JUNCO visit the feeder at my study window. I've never seen one in California before. George Chaniot ...
Fri, 17 Mar 2006 -- This morning there was a flock of 40 TRICOLORED BLACKBIRDS foraging on the ground in the Bald Eagle Vineyard on Burris Lane in Potter...
Fri, 17 Mar 2006, 11:16 -- The SLATE-COLORED JUNCO just made another appearance at my window feeder. It approaches and leaves through the live oak along the...
Saturday, March 18, 2006, 11:15 a.m. - - PEREGRINE FALCON observed consuming a BAND-TAILED PIGEON in the oak at the SW corner of W Smith and Hortense Streets...
Roger W. Foote
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Mar 19, 2006 5:45 pm
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At Point Arena today, my family and I enjoyed watching "Al" the LAYSAN ALBATROSS from 12:00-1:00 pm. Al repeatedly drifted within 20 feet or so of the ...
Dear Friends, Please cut and paste (or forward) this article to your friends who might want to come to see Matthew Matthiessen's astonishing slideshow on...
This is from Birder's World Magazine. A friend saw a segment of Nova on PBS recently about these birds: "Hi-tech Barn Swallows A couple of Minnesota Barn...
Wednesday, March 22, 2006. Yesterday evening an adult male Cinnamon Teal was found at the western end of Lake Cleone. These birds are seldom seen on the...
David Jensen
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Mar 22, 2006 2:33 pm
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Well, I counted my eggs before they were laid. "My" Red-shouldered Hawks have ended up in a much less visible nest this year, about 100+ yards away. It's way...
A flock of about 40 Yellow-headed Blackbirds, all males, briefly landed in the oaks in front of my house in SW Lakeport early this afternoon. In the past 14...
As of around 4pm today, "Al", the Laysan Albatross, is still hanging around at Arena Cove just west of Point Arena. There also was a first-cycle Glaucous Gull...
In a book published in 1985 called "Birding Northern Çalifornia," found by Vishnu at a garage sale, it mentions Harlequin Ducks at Van Damme and Gray Jays at...
Today, Sunday, March 26 at MacKerricher State Park/Lake Cleone I saw a single BROWN PELICAN flying overhead which Toby Tobkin tells me is an early in the...
Sunday March 26, 2006 Geoff and I watched a male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in Bruce and Ann Gove's yard at Fisher Lake Drive in Redwood Valley this morning....
MENDOCINO AUDUBON PRESENTS "JAPAN IN WINTER: BIRDING IN THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN" In 2003, Rich Kuehn and Dean Schuler, after 4 months of language...
Tues Mar 28 - The male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker was still present this morning at the same location it was reported from this past weekend. To reach this spot...
Matthew Matthiessen
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Mar 28, 2006 5:21 pm
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Tuesday - 28 March 2006 - This is not really a report of a specific sighting. I would just like to point out that I have received several calls from the...
Robert J. Keiffer
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Mar 28, 2006 5:44 pm
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I saw a 1st-cycle GLAUCOUS GULL at Clearlake Park on Wednesday the 22nd and a male TUFTED DUCK (sleeping so tuft not seen) among perhaps 3500 SCAUP at Borax...
Hi-- This morning, Jim saw a Say's Phoebe near Seaside Creek, among the driftwood near Hwy 1. A short while later, he spotted a (the?) male Long-tailed Duck...
Birds of Uganda Benefit tomorrow night, 7 p.m., Ukiah Civic Center. The newspaper coverage left a little to be desired, as the article was a bit buried in the...