Floyd Hayes called to say he also found another SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER at Borax Lake yeserday. The two birds found on the day are the 6th and 7th record for...
Mon, 1 Sept 2008 -- This morning was calm on the coast after the blustery conditions yesterday. Westport Vol Fire Dept has done a great job of removing trash...
A smallish flock has been seen feeding at bird feeders on West Street in Fort Bragg. The residents are private folk, but I witnessed several flying east and...
Just received a phone call from Todd Easterla who found two Semipalmated Sandpipers at Borax Lake, then a Sanderling and Marbled Godwits at the Kelsey Creek...
I was at the outlet from about 1:00 to 1:30 pm. All the birds Todd Easterla saw were still there; 2 Marbled Godwits, a Sanderling, and a Wilson's Phalarope. I...
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 -- I made a survey of Lake Mendocino this morning. There were a few migrant waterfowl beginning to return: 2 AMERICAN WIGEON, 3 GADWALLS, 1...
A Solitary Sandpiper just visited our little backyard pond (about 20 feet across) on Middle Ridge, Albion. Bobbed his head a few hundred times, hopped around...
Greetings Mendobirders- I went out to the Ukiah Sewage Treatment Plant this morning and saw a juv BROWN PELICAN on the south pond. This is only the second...
Dave Woodward and I were at the outlet in the late afternoon, early evening yesterday. There was a group of small terns (11 at one point) roosting on the...
Dave Woodward and I were at the outlet for about an hour. Still present were 2 Sanderlings and the two American Avocets. New arrival; 2 Baird's Sandpipers....
Lots of birders out and about this morning in the county. At the Kelsey Creek Outlet, Baird's Sandpipers were seen, there were the continuing 2 Sanderlings,...
Three Whimbrels flew onto the island at the Kelsey Creek outlet about 3:45pm this afternoon. John Luther had the birds in view when I left about a half hour...
Borax Lake, Friday, September 5, 2008, 6:30 p.m.: 15 peeps, at least five (and probably all) were SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS. Mike Stanley Clearlake, CA...
Sun, 7 Sept, 2008 -- Scarse on the MEN coast was a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. Am Dipper & Willow Flycatcher were the other best birds we could find this day....
Yesterday in the morning, birds seen at the outlet by various observers were; a Marbled Godwit, the continuing 2 Sanderlings and a Baird's Sandpiper. Early...
I checked Borax Lake last evening. The peep flock had been persistently hanging out on the island near the south end during the past two weekends, but this...
8 Sept 2008 - Recently researchers were trapping Turkey Vultures and Common Ravens at the UC Hopland Research & Extension Center. They captured 34 TUVUs and...
9 Sept 2008--Toby Tobkin and I traveled to the Usal Beach and campground today. The best bird of the day was a Northern Waterthrush found in a small spring...
For the second day in a row, hundreds of Sooty Shearwaters are passing by the Little River Headlands close to shore. Among them I've picked out a few ...
BIRDERS, EVERYWHERE, You are cordially invited to the MONTEREY BAY BIRDING FESTIVAL, which begins on Friday, September 26 and runs through Sunday, September ...
On Monday there was an American Pipit (first of the fall) at the Kelsey Creek Outlet. On Tuesday around the Lake there was a first of the fall Say's Phoebe. A...
Combining some volunteer driving of a CRC client to the Point Arena clinic with some birding, I spent ~30 minutes at Arena Cove this morning. There were 5...
Fri, 12 Sep 2008 -- Jerry White reports that he saw an AMERICAN REDSTART on the south side of the Garcia River in willows way out near the mouth. He also saw...
Sat, 13 Sep 2008 -- Jerry White called from the coast to report that he found a CANADA WARBLER at Usal Creek this morning. It was in a mixed flock on the east...
Sat, 13 Sep 2008-- This morning I noticed a female AMER REDSTART at Glass Beach in the lone cypress tree near the beach. Barbara Dolan found a RUDDY...
Sun, 14 Sep 2008-- Rob Fowler found a 2nd CANADA WARBLER along the Skunk Train tracks the mid-late afternoon of 14 Sep '08. I went along with him to bird the...
Sun, 14 Sep 2008-- At 11:30 am, Jim Havlena saw a 1st-yr male MAGNOLIA WARBLER along the Skunk Train tracks in Fort Bragg. It was in a large flock that...
This morning (09/15/2008) at about 8:30 Nick Shepherd and I saw a PECTORAL SANDPIPER at Borax Lake in Lake County. The bird was in a flock of peeps that...