A breeding plumaged Red-necked Grebe was off Juan Creek this morning. Stops at other creekmouths, like Wages Creek, turned up just a few migrants. Two...
For your information- Cathy CCWR Action Alert: DFG Asks California Residents to Keep Bird Feeders Clean and Disease-Free Department of Fish and Game NEWS...
I had a fun birding weekend - not sure what's noteworthy, if anything, but it was exciting to me. Clearlake Oaks on Friday: one yellow-headed blackbird, 5-6...
I saw an American Bittern between 11:45 and 12:25 today, Sunday, 16 April, at Lake Cleone in MacKerricher St Park. It was standing in the reeds very close to...
While driving back from SoCal last week I tagged a couple of HWY 101 birds. Between Hopland and Ukiah along the one-way stretch a Lewis's Woodpecker flew ...
Hi- As I write, there is an adult Chipping Sparrow in our front yard. It is feeding with the White- and Golden--crowns, but it has been harrassed a little,...
The past two days I have had a lovely male Western Tanager coming to my suet feeder--a squirrel-proof one. I make my own suet with lots of peanut butter, ...
Does anyone know what the new procedure is to go birding at the Ukiah Treatment Center? Apparently you have to check in somewhere else and you also have to...
I decided to sent this message to this group too, in case anyone doesn't know the changes at the Water Treatment Plant in Ukiah yet. Jim ... From: Jim Lomax ...
There are a dozen or so band-tailed pigeons in the oak trees here in our yard on Mill Creek Rd in Talmage. They've been around, off and on, for a coupla weeks....
4-13-06 There was a flock of approximately 60 Cedar Waxwings seen in Fort Bragg - presumably moving through after the storms. ************ Tina Fabula...
Greetings Mendobirders- This morning I saw a SOLITARY SANDPIPER along the edge of the upper sag pond just south of the office area at the UC Hopland Center....
12 April 2006 - Wed - a very bright male Wilson's Warbler showed up at the UC Hopland Research & Extension Center's office...first one that I have seen this...
The Lark Sparrow spent the night at Ocean Meadows Circle, north of Ten Mile River. We saw it late yesterday afternoon, then it got a little foggy. This...
Hello--- Late this morning, I looked out my kitchen window to see a Lark Sparrow feeding on our gravel driveway with a flock of White- crowned Sparrows. The...
It's been such a quiet spring until now. I saw two Townsend's Warblers on Friday afternoon and another one today. The one today distracted me from a pair of...
This morning about 7:30 AM, Jim saw the male Long-tailed Duck again near the mouth of Ten Mile River. I joined him, and got good looks in the scope. He still...
Hello Again, I've been told the LAAL leaves Pt. Arena the first or second weekend in March. So, if any one sees it this weekend, could you please post that...
We have grosbeaks in our yard this morning. They may have arrived yesterday or Thursday (I've been away). Maybe they know something we don't know, and spring...
Thursday 6 April 2006 - This afternoon I noticed the arrival of Western Kingbird (1), Cliff Swallow (1), and Barn Swallow (1) amongst numerous Tree Swallows...
Thurs. 4/6/06 After checks along Red Hills Rd. in Lake County, CA every 2-3 days from mid March until April and checks on 5 of 6 dates in April, I finally...
Greetings Mendobirders- Earlier this evening I had a Caspian Tern noisily flying over my yard toward Lake Mendocino. This is by far the earliest inland...
We had bullock's orioles return to our yard last week (3/29). There are currently two males making a racket, trying to stir up some excitement. Sorry about the...
Wed, 29 Mar 2006 -- This evening a flock of about 100 TRICOLORED BLACKBIRDS were doing their bag-o'-cats chorusing in the tops of oak trees at the end of...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
