Hi birders -- The Red Fox Sparrow continues to come to our yard north of the Ten Mile River bridge. The flock includes Varied Thrushes, Spotted Towhees, Song,...
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Chuck & Barbara Vaughn
cevmendo
Feb 1, 2007 8:16 pm
Greetings Mendobirders- I am forwarding this note from Tom Leskiw of Humboldt County (posted on nwcalbirds) regarding "Al", the Laysan Albatross of Arena...
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chaniot@...
gchaniot
Feb 2, 2007 6:40 am
Thu, 01 Feb 2007 -- Dorothy Tobkin birded the south Mendocino Coast today, and she reports about 120 TUNDRA SWANS at Brush Creek. Nearby there was a group of...
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Kate Marianchild
kmarianchild
Feb 2, 2007 7:48 pm
Japan: Its Wildlife, Its People, and Its Culture In 2003 Rich Kuehn and Dean Schuler of Sea Ranch spent four weeks exploring Japan from the tropical southern...
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Kate Marianchild
kmarianchild
Feb 2, 2007 8:05 pm
The Japan program is not about peregrine falcons. Kate...
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Kate Marianchild
kmarianchild
Feb 2, 2007 10:58 pm
Fifty Species Challenge Walk Did you know that wrentits and white-crowned sparrows can spend their entire lives in one coyote bush, finding all of their food,...
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Ron LeValley
rlevmrb
Feb 4, 2007 8:32 pm
Hi all, Yesterday afternoon Charlene and I stopped at the Westport Sewage Ponds and were surprised to find two goldeneyes on the pond. They mostly stayed in...
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Ron LeValley
rlevmrb
Feb 4, 2007 11:53 pm
Yes, the dull eye is a characteristic of immatures, so this bird is likely a first-winter bird. By now, most males should show some of the darker head, facial...
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Elaine Lindelef
elindelef
Feb 5, 2007 9:45 pm
I've been watching this bird hang around our place for a while, and I had catalogued him as a flycatcher. ...
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Karen Havlena
jkhavlena
Feb 6, 2007 6:43 pm
Hi Birders-- The Barrow's Goldeneye (99.9% sure) is still at the Westport STP along Hwy 1. Jim and I saw the bird again Tuesday AM. The bird is most likely ...
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Elaine Lindelef
elindelef
Feb 6, 2007 8:46 pm
Thank you everyone, for your help with my Northern Mockingbird. This morning the river was busy; I saw a trio of common mergansers, some wood ducks and a pair...
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Karen Havlena
jkhavlena
Feb 6, 2007 9:27 pm
I forgot to mention that the eyes of the Barrow's Goldeneye are not yet golden. They are a dull yellow-brown, which would point towards a first-year bird. The...
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Chuck & Barbara Vaughn
cevmendo
Feb 6, 2007 9:36 pm
Greetings Mendobirders- At noon today I refound the 2 COMMON MOORHENS which have been on the south sag pond since this fall. I had not seen them since...
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Floyd Hayes
floyd_hayes
Feb 7, 2007 3:51 am
On Sunday the 4th I spent about 2.5 hours scanning the scaup flock at Borax Lake and picked out only two male TUFTED DUCKS. The first I found after only 10 min...
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Jim Armstrong
jarlyus
Feb 7, 2007 4:48 pm
I know Wood Ducks are not a great discovery, but I have had a mini- flock of about ten of them in my creek for the past month or so, the first time I've seen...
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Elaine Lindelef
elindelef
Feb 8, 2007 4:24 pm
... I've probably been seeing the same group, and with the same problem of flushing them before I saw them. Until I got a shot with my camera ...
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Kate Marianchild
kmarianchild
Feb 8, 2007 8:39 pm
Do you know that wood ducks are also known as "acorn ducks"? When acorns are plentiful (fall and winter) they are the most important part of the wood duck...
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Elaine Lindelef
elindelef
Feb 8, 2007 8:47 pm
I've uploaded a picture of a hawk in Potter Valley taken February 1. I assumed he was the resident Red-shouldered Hawk, but in the photo he's quite light...
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Kate Marianchild
kmarianchild
Feb 9, 2007 5:14 pm
International Wildlife Film Series Coming to Ukiah Six Friday Evenings of Film and Live Music Ukiah will soon be hosting its first annual international...
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Elaine Lindelef
elindelef
Feb 10, 2007 11:51 pm
This morning I spotted (what I think is) a juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron down on the river. I've seen him before, very occasionally. And I braved the rain...
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George Chaniot
gchaniot
Feb 14, 2007 12:37 am
Jerry White has written an account of his record-breaking Mendocino County Big Year in 2005. You can read this account from the "Files" section of the...
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chaniot@...
gchaniot
Feb 14, 2007 1:33 am
Tue, 13 Feb 2007 -- Dorothy Tobkin reports two BLUE-WINGED TEAL and several EURASIAN WIGEONS in Hathaway Creek along Miner Hole Road. There were thirteen...
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Maria Wetzel
mwetzel2002
Feb 14, 2007 1:43 am
I live in town in Fort Bragg and I am watching birds more closely than before since this is the first year I've been involved in Project Feeder Watch. I'm...
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Karen Havlena
jkhavlena
Feb 14, 2007 5:09 am
The Red Fox Sparrow has stayed through the rainy days on Ocean Meadows Circle north of the Ten Mile River. The last of the three Varied Thrushes has ...
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Ron LeValley
rlevmrb
Feb 14, 2007 6:54 pm
I heard my first Rufous Hummingbird of the season yesterday, 2/13, at the future Mendocino Coast Regional Park, 3 miles east of Fort Bragg, Highway One on...
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Karen Havlena
jkhavlena
Feb 15, 2007 10:02 pm
Jim and I went to the Westport STP at noon. Neither the Barrow's nor the Common Goldeneye were seen. We stayed a while to see that if they were in the NE...
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Jerry White
grebeman2
Feb 15, 2007 11:23 pm
Today I found a Burrowing Owl at 12:15 PM (present until about 1:00) near the Hidden Valley Treatment Ponds. From Highway 29 several miles north of Middletown...
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Kate Marianchild
kmarianchild
Feb 16, 2007 5:45 pm
Birds and Wildlife of Cameroon Matthew Matthiessen's Birds of Borneo and and Birds and Wildlife of Uganda stunned overflow audiences for two years in a row...
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chaniot@...
gchaniot
Feb 16, 2007 10:09 pm
Fri, 16 Feb 2007 -- I decided to move quickly on this owl since I have missed others in Lake Co. several times. Jerry's directions led me right to the spot at...
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albionwood
Feb 17, 2007 12:45 am
Greetings Mendobirders, Today (Friday Feb. 16) we headed down the coast to Point Arena to see Al, but he was not in evidence. We tried from about 10:00 -...
