Mendobirders - A Windows Media file of the Dark-rumped Petrel seen Sunday is now online. This 5 MB file shows the erratic flight (with erratic camerawork!)...
15 August 2006 - This is just a reminder to all fortunate Mendocino birders who have seen the visiting Bar-tailed Godwit (county's second record) that this is...
Hi, Birders, Don Doolittle and I drove down Highway 1 from Fort Bragg to Bodega Bay this afternoon. At 4 pm, I found a sparkling male AMERICAN REDSTART on ...
Hi-- I got out of jury duty early, so I headed for the USTP and spent late morning there. I saw most of the species mentioned by George Chaniot yesterday,...
Sun, 13 Aug 2006 -- Hello, Mendobirders. This morning at the Ukiah Sewage Treatment Plant there were three RED-NECKED PHALAROPES and a BLACK-NECKED STILT on...
Barbara Pratt, who works at the Gualala Art Center, told me there have been about 1000 pelicans feeding in the Gualala River near the sandbar for a couple of...
This morning John Luther and I found a YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD and two SPOTTED SANDPIPERS at the ponds. The YHBL was along the south side of the middle pond...
Jim and I looked diligently for almost 4 hours without any luck in seeing the Brown Booby at Bear Harbor. We had some help for a while from Cindy and Les...
Saturday Aug 12 * This morning Chuck Vaughn and I had two PACIFIC GOLDEN-PLOVERS at Virgin Creek Beach. The birds were together at the very north end of the...
Hi all, I am forwarding this message with permission from Ken Burton who posted this to NWCalbird: Rob Fowler Last Saturday, August 5, while searching...
Hi again, Toby Tobkin, and later, Jim and I saw a possible Bar-tailed Godwit this afternoon at Virgin Creek area in Fort Bragg. The bird was alone, except for...
Late yesterday afternoon, 10 August, I saw an alternate- plumaged Red-necked Grebe with Surf Scoters at the north end of Ward Ave, Cleone. This arrival date...
Greetings Mendobirders: I visited the Ukiah Sewage Treatment Plant this morning for the first time in 2 weeks, and there were a few birds of local interest...
Jerry White called to say that on 9 August, he and Nikki again saw the BROWN BOOBY just off Bear Harbor, extreme NE Mendocino Co. This time, the bird had...
Early this afternoon, Jim was trying again for the Horned Puffin (unsuccessfully) from Mendocino Headlands St Park. While scoping off to the west, I spotted...
Jerry White phoned and asked me to let everyone know that he found an adult, male BROWN BOOBY at Bear Harbor in the Sinkyone Wilderess State Park. This is in...
The Long-tailed Duck is rapidly growing new, black feathers on the mantle and scapulars. I could not see the throat and chest, today, which have remained...
Now I understand why the long delay in seeing my messages on the list. At first I thought that this was an unfriendly list, far from it. Thank you to all that...
Matthew Mathiessen just called. He had a Bar-tailed Godwit fly by(it was with a Marbled Godwit so he had a good comparison) at Virgin Creek Beach heading...
Am not sure if this is noteworthy, but I believe about 2 dozen Red-Necked Phalarope were feeding at Lake Cleone, and a few were in the ocean nearby at mid-day...
Sunday 06 August 06 Geoff and I saw a single BLACK-NECKED STILT at the middle Ukiah Sewage Treatment Pond this morning. A flock of four GREEN HERONS took off ...
At different times both Friday and Saturday, Jim and I looked diligently for the Horned Puffin off the north rocks at Mendocino Headlands without any success. ...
Friday, August 4, 2006: I saw an adult male Golden-crowned Sparrow in breeding plumage singing this morning in a blackberry bramble north of the CalTrans...
On Aug 3, 2006, the HORNED PUFFIN was seen near the northern most rocks off of the northern most parking lot at Mendocino Headlands Park. (Sal Salerno)...
Well, from having seen no egrets for a long time at Lake Pennyroyal suddenly there were ten here yesterday - nine Great Egrets and one juvenile Snowy Egret. ...
Hello Birders, I am going to the Pt. Reyes area this weekend with my kayak, leaving tonight, and would like to hear today about any interesting bird phenomena...
Just to be official on this first day of Fall birding, Jim and I saw the Long-tailed Duck east of Ten Mile River bridge around 2 PM. He swam up to a submerged...
Greetings MendoBirders, I made another attempt to spot the Mendocino Headlands Puffins on Saturday afternoon. There was a very nice couple from Chico birding ...
