I too got a look (my 1st) at the ICELAND GULL yesterday in the early afternoon. The bird was on the 1st pier to the south of Redbud Park. With binoculars only...
15 January 2009 - This afternoon there were three Canvasback on the Beckstoffer Pond along Old River Road just south Talmage. At least two Hooded Mergansers...
Greetings Mendobirders- Barbara and I have seen a male Costa's Hummingbird in our yard on 3 occasions that last 2 days. It has made VERY brief visits to our...
Fri, 16 Jan 2009 -- This morning from 06:20-06:25 there was a NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL calling at the Glen Eden Trailhead on Scotts Valley Road in Lake County....
16 January 2009 - Friday - at least one of the UC-HREC Long-eared Owls is continuing to roost in the same bushy pepperwood tree as discovered in. This is not...
Can someone please help me identify a small owl I have been hearing in the evening. It is a rapid, almost chuckling sound of about 6 or 8 notes, descending at...
Sounds like a great description of a Western Screech-owl. Cool. Ron From: Mendobirds@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Mendobirds@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Angie ...
Hello - This afternoon I observed 2 Red Crossbills at the intersection of Duxbury and Stonboro in "Southern Manchester". There were also 2 Cackling Geese 300...
Today I again saw the SWAMP SPARROW at the Kelsey Creek Outlet. On Clark Drive there was a Prairie Falcon. In the afternoon Nikki White and I saw the...
Charles here from Covelo... I'm working on ID'ing the hawks here. I see this one most days on my way to work at the south end of the valley. Tail feathers look...
Thank you all for identifying the owl sounds in my yard and the link to the Cornell website. I have a huge population of voles in my yard so the more owls the...
Sat, 17 Jan 2009 -- Mendocino College was my first stop Saturday for COMMON MOORHEN, SORA and GREEN HERON. Getting to watch a beaver swim about, lifting its...
Hello - I'm not sure if this is 'reportable' or not but there is a Tricolored Blackbird in the largish blackbird flock in Gualala that frequents the southern...
Greetings Mendobirders- The male Costa's Hummingbird continues in our back yard. Barbara and I saw it many times today between 11 am and 330 pm, at maybe 30...
Hi all, Today Frances Oliver and I did a bit of a big day in Mendocino, with a great deal of help from Chuck Vaughn. Frances and I started owling at 3:30 on...
Would somebody be kind enough to tell me where the pond/wetlands at the college is? Thanks! Janet Rosen Zanshin Art "When I feed the poor they call me a saint....
... Since this is a frequently asked question, I will post this to the whole group. Below are some directions that I have sent to several people: Directions:...
I spent today (Monday, January 19, 2009) in Lake County searching for three birds that had been noted in earlier posts. At about 9:00 a.m., I found the...
19 January 2009 - Chuck Vaughn & I spent the day birding the Mendocino Coast. A dawn drive over Mtn. View Road did NOT turn up any Sooty Grouse ....only many...
Hi all, I posted a photo of the male Rose-breasted Grosbeak Frances Oliver and I found in Manchester on the Mendobirds website. It can be found in the album...
I spent several hours on Saturday afternoon diligently helping three birders find the Lesser Black-backed Gull and presumed Iceland Gull at Clearlake but...
In the MendoBirds Photos section I have uploaded a shot from today at MacKerricher State Park titled "Help with Gull ID" This bird has dark eyes, a greenish...
A HUGE thanks to all who replied (and there were a lot of you), ranging from ketchup *hahaha* to 'why not a winter CA Gull?' the overwhelming and most obvious...
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 -- This morning I saw an immature HARLAN'S RED-TAILED HAWK on the west side of Hwy 101 just south of the Calpella exit sitting on a billboard....
Sat 24 January, 2009--"Toby" Tobkin called to report a small white goose that she feels is a RossXShow Goose hybrid. She found it at the Casper Pond (a.k.a....
This morning Matthew Matthiessen and I found the 12th (my 11th) gull species of the season for Clearlake, a 1st-cycle GLAUCOUS GULL on the first dock south of...
24 January 2009 - Saturday - I did some birding around Ukiah area. From Hopland to Ukiah via the River Road I refound the LEWIS'S WOODPECKER on the King...
Yesterday morning Dough Weidemann, Nick Shepherd and I found a male "EURASIAN"; GREEN-WINGED TEAL at Borax Lake in Clearlake Park. It was associating with three...
Last Friday from a Redwood Valley ridge top I watched two adult Golden Eagles dive-bomb a hatch-year Golden Eagle several times. One time the juvenile flipped...
MCAS has booked the spring pelagic trip for Sun, 17 MAY. We will meet at 7:30 AM at the Wharf Restaurant dock, Noyo harbor, Fort Bragg, to board the Trek...
