Thu, 1 May 2008 -- Thanks to a visiting birder, Gary Deghi, from Half Moon Bay for calling my attention to a TRICOLORED BLACKBIRD colony in Potter Valley. The...
Thurs, 1 May 2008 -- A BROWN THRASHER was spotted this afternoon by Carolyn Kinet at her feeder in Inglenook, north of Cleone and the Fort Bragg Grange. The...
May 1, 2008 This morning I counted 7 osprey above Lake Cleone at MacKerricher State Park. Several attemps were made by osprey to catch a fish. Finally, one...
I just posted 2 pictures of the Brown Thrasher found in Carolyn Kinet's Inglenook yard. Jim Havlena, Carolyn, and myself waited about 20 minutes for it to show...
Hi all: The Brown Thrasher continues to hang around near my feeder. He/she is pretty aggressive when the scrub jays come around looking for peanuts and does a...
Sun, 4 May, 2008 Dorothy "Toby" Tobkin called to say that she saw at least 14 Red-necked Phalaropes on Lk Cleone in MacKerricher SP. It is quite windy today,...
Looks like the visitor has moved on somewhere else. I have not seen it since about 6 p.m. yesterday (Saturday). It is interesting that the few quail that...
Pardon this sort of "Hound of the Baskervilles-esque" post, but for the first time in 36 years, including a dozens with active nesting in the oaks around my...
There is a Red Shouldered Hawk that lives around here near Bald Hill just north of Fort Bragg and I see/hear it often. Laurel Krause [Non-text portions of this...
On southeast side Ukiah I had two competing pairs screaming at each other and doing aerial maneuvers about a month ago and very quiet since. Janet Rosen ...
The second in a series of 9 point-count surveys in the Spring Big River Bird Surveys took place this chilly morning shortly after dawn. Nine stations were...
Dorothy "Toby" Tobkin reports seeing approximately 200 Red-Necked Phalaropes this morning on Lake Cleone (in MacKerricher State Park). There was at least one...
Fri, 16 May '08 -- Dorothy "Toby" Tobkin called to say that she saw a male GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE in Fort Bragg late this AM. The bird was near McPherson and...
16 May 2008 - Friday 3:45 PM - a lone white-faced Ibis was seen on a private pond near the bottom of the UC Hopland Research & Extension Center. If anyone...
May 18, 2008 Sunday Barbara Dolan and I watched a pair of WILSON'S PHALAROPES on the north pond of the Ukiah Sewage Treatment Plant this morning, a male and ...
Thanks to Kerry Ross for keeping such good notes for us. Here is the trip list and the totals. Location: Noyo Harbor, Mendocino Coast Audubon Pelagic trip ...
This morning there was an almost full adult Bald Eagle (it looked like the head was not pure white, but we didn't get that good of look) perched in a tall tree...
Fri, 23 May 2008 -- I saw 2 adult BALD EAGLES flying overhead and calling at the Hopland Reservation today. They were probably a couple hundred feet above,...
Peregrine Audubon Rummage Sale – Sat June 7 near Ukiah Farmer's Market Peregrine Audubon Society welcomes you to its annual rummage sale on Saturday, June 7,...
On Monday, 26 May, about 11:00 AM, Stan Snyder spotted a Tufted Puffin in the bay north of Mendocino Headlands. After watching the bird dive, we saw it fly...
Wed, 28 May 2008 -- At 1:15 PM today, I witnessed the same view of a Tufted Puffin at Mendocino Headlands. The bird was on the water NW of the rocks when I...
A male Indigo Bunting just appeared on the ground outside my window for a few seconds. Both Charlene and I got good looks at it. I'll post again if it stays...
Friday, May 30, 2008. At 5:00 pm tonight there was a female LONG-TAILED DUCK feeding about 10-20 yards off the beach at Noyo Harbor. [Non-text portions of...
Sat, 31 May, 2008- I saw three White-faced Ibises ~ 9:30 AM flying west over Ten Mile River toward the mouth. Jim and I were on the road south of the river,...
This year the Red-shouldered Hawk nest that I wrote about a few years ago had four chicks to start. After a couple of weeks there were only three, and a week...
The day before yesterday (June 1) I went to look at the Golden Eagle nest in Redwood Valley. Two very large chicks were on the nest. Today I got an excited...
5 June 2008 - At least 4 White-throated Swifts can be found flying around the Dos Rios Highway 162 (Covelo Road) bridge, as previously reported by C.Vaughn &...
Last night around 6:00 p.m. there was a male Great-tailed Grackle calling and being harassed by the Brewer's Blackbirds across from the Mendocino Beacon office...
Sunday, June 15, 2008: At 11:00 this morning I saw the TUFTED PUFFIN fly to the seabird colony at the northwest end of Heeser Drive in Mendocino. With its...