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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Dorothy "Toby" Tobkin reports seeing approximately 200 Red-Necked Phalaropes this morning on Lake Cleone (in MacKerricher State Park). There was at least one...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
I just returned to Charlene’s after a day in the field at Big River. I flushed a bright rusty bird from the feeders and jokingly said that it looked like a...
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...
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...
Reminder: Please check your calendar. We need your participation for Sun, 18 May. It is the MCAS Spring Pelagic Trip! Please send your check for $95 NOW. ...
Greetings Mendobirders: This morning I birded the Ukiah Sewage Treatment Plant with Cheryl Watson and Geoff Heinecken. The best bird of the morning was a...
My second post in a day, sheesh...on my way back to the house after filling feeders I looked up to see a flock of what sure looked like swifts flying over the...
Well I have had a serious case of feeder envy, but came home from work today to find a pair of black headed grosbeaks joining "the usual suspects" at my...
Marigold Klein saw two dippers on the Russian River yesterday. She has seen them there before. If you go north on the Potter Valley Road from Hwy 20, it's...
Sun, 20 April 08-- The wind stopped blowing, so I ventured down Hwy 1 for a while this AM. I saw one of the Long-tailed Ducks just north of Pudding Creek....
Greetings Mendobirders- I made a brief, but fruitful, visit to the Ukiah Sewage Treatment Plant early this morning. The middle pond is being drained and...
Last Saturday morning, a singing male Palm Warbler made a brief appearance in the budding alders along the pond at the Ocean Lake mobile home park in Fort...
Join the Big River Stewards program of the Mendocino Land Trust and the Mendocino Coast Chapter of the Audubon Society for a free two-day bird survey training...
We have a white headed blackbird in our yard here in the Covelo area. He/she also has alot of white underneath her wings. Looks like a minature bald eagle on...
