28 October 2009, 1:45pm Gualala Hello - A juvenile Sooty Grouse ran into one of our living room windows and then flew into a redwood across our driveway. This...
2:05p Hello - The Sooty Grouse is still here but has moved out of the redwood and is walking across the property towards the thick brush. Good Birding, Rich...
There appear to be 2 colonies of black-crowned night herons on the lower portion of the Noyo River. I have been watching them for 3 years now from a kayak and...
28 October 2009 - The topic of Black-crowned Night Herons in Mendocino County is of great interest concerning the archived records. In the past decades, this...
Just for the record, I have a White -throated sparrow in my hedgerow this morning, 10/29 in GlenBlair. His markings are bright and bold. I'd like to think...
TOP CALIFORNIA EXPERT ON PEREGRINE FALCONS TO SPEAK IN UKIAH The peregrine falcon, sometimes referred to as "master of the hunt," is the fastest bird on earth....
The question of the lack of breeding records for Black-crowned Night Herons in Mendocino County has puzzled me for a number of years over here on the western...
It took me years to find night-herons in Clear Lake area, but I now see them a lot. Could it be that the species is increasing its range/population? Any...
Floyd Hayes just called. He has found a FRANKLIN'S GULL on the roof of Wal Mart in Clearlake. He estimates there are a 1000 gulls there at this time. This is...
Sat Oct 31, 2009--Most of the reported HOODED MERGANSERS have been in the inland area. I had 5 this morning on a small pond just west of the Little River...
Sun, 1 Nov 2009 -- A pair of HARLEQUIN DUCKs were in the cove at the south bluff Laguna Point, MacKerricher SP this morning. An adult White-throated...
Sun, 1 Nov 2009 -- Jim Havlena found a NORTHERN FULMAR (dark morph) right at the water's edge on Seaside Beach just north of the Ten Mile river mouth. It...
This morning at about 8:30 AM there was a CATTLE EGRET at the Kelsey Creek Outlet. The bird flew off about 5 minutes later heading west along the shoreline....
Mon Nov 2, 2009--This afternoon I found 2 REDHEADS at Lake Cleone (approx 3:30). Initially they were at the north side of the Lake approx. 40 yards east of the...
Yesterday a few of us, including Steve and Diane Rose of Grass Valley, searched in vain for the FRANKLIN'S GULL at Clearlake. However, later in the day Steve...
Tues, 3 Nov 2009 -- The two REDHEADS and one CANVASBACK were still at Lake Cleone, MacKerricher SP, this morning. I arrived too early for a good view of the...
Tues, 3 Nov, 2009 -- Dorothy "Toby" Tobkin just called having spotted one ROCK SANDPIPER at Glass Beach, MacKerricher SP in Fort Bragg. The bird was...
This morning before 10 a.m. on a shorebird survey, a volunteer spotted what we believe is a Tropical Kingbird in the lone tree on the trail just east of the...
Tues, 3 Nov 2009 -- Dorothy ""Toby" Tobkin called late Tuesday that she saw the COMMON MOORHEN on the east side of Lake Cleone again. Toby originally found...
Thursday, 11/5/2009. The Mendocino Coast Audubon Society invites interested persons with all levels of birding skill to join in our thirty-sixth annual...
Sandhill Crane Festival, Nov 6-8, 2009 There are several events of interest to birders at this year's Sandhill Crane Festival in Lodi. Saturday's featured...
Sun, 8 Nov 2009 -- There are two SWAMP SPARROWs below the old Ten Mile R. bridge near the huge, red crane on the south side of the river. One bird is an...
Sun Nov 8, 2009--I was able to refind the SWAMP SPARROW at 10 Mile Bridge at 1:30 PM. I got a good look at the adult. There was a second bird that was the same...
TOP CALIFORNIA EXPERT ON PEREGRINE FALCONS TO SPEAK IN UKIAH ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19 AT THE UKIAH CIVIC CENTER, 7 P.M. by Kate Marianchild Peregrine falcons,...
Mon, 9 Nov 2009 -- This morning an adult (returning?) FERRUGINOUS HAWK was on a cypress across Hwy 1 from Ocean Meadows north of the Ten Mile R. There has...
Tue Nov 10, 2009---Per a message on my answering machine, Toby found a single 1st winter CHESTNUT-COLLARED LONGSPUR at 11:00AM today. It was located at the...
Tue Nov 10, 2009--Karen Havlena and I found the CHESTNUT-COLLARED LONGSPUR reported by Toby at approx. 3:45PM. It wasn't easy. We found it in the long grass...
Geoff and I refound the Chestnut-collared Longspur today at 1PM in the same general location it was seen previously, southeast of the monument on the Mendocino...
Greetings Mendobirders- Barbara and I watched 2 Scoters with our binoculars at about 1 pm today (Nov 14) off of Library Park in Lakeport. I am quite...