Sunday 01 Sept. 2002, Spent Saturday Night and Sunday morning at Spruce Grove. Present were a pair of White-headed Woodpeckers coming in to roost in a large...
Aug 13 there was a Willow Flycatcher along the edge of the sag ponds at the Hopland Field Station. Also in the area were several Wilson's Warblers and the...
Greetings Mendobirders: At 745 I saw an imm American Bittern in the cat tails on the SW corner of the sludge pond at the Ukiah Sewage Treatment Plant. For...
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Today I scoured the north coast hoping to refind some of the rarities reported in recent days. Unfortunately I didn't find anything exceptional but there were...
Greetings Mendobirders: I found a Yellow-throated Vireo at the Hopland Research and Extension Center at noon today, August 23. The bird was seen along a pond...
Greetings Mendobirders: Early this afternoon George Chaniot, Matthew Matthiesson, and I found a juvenile Buff-breasted Sandpiper on Ten Mile Beach at the...
Mon, 19 Aug 2002 -- The WHITE-FACED IBIS is still being seen on the edges of the vineyard pond at milemarker 1.33 on West Road, Potter Valley. Jim Armstrong...
The Shearwater Journeys trip from Ft Bragg on August 17 recorded a Streaked Shearwater! This is a Mendocino County First, and one of the few records away from...
Friday, 16 August 2002, Debra Shearwater reported to me the she, Guy MacKaskie, and Michael San Miguel observed a Manx Shearwater, 2 Tufted Puffins (fly by),...
Sat, 17 Aug 2002 -- Jerry White reports that several observers found an immature YELLOW-BILLED LOON after today's pelagic trip. It could be seen from the Juan...
Thu, 15 Aug 2002 -- At 07:00 this morning there was singleton WHITE-FACED IBIS on the vineyard pond near my home on West Road, Potter Valley. Later it circled...
Birders, Please be advised that the September 14 pelagic trip out of Crescent City is completely full. There are only a few slots available on the September...
Mon, 5 Aug 2002 -- At about 10:00 this morning I found a MERLIN perched near the pond near my home on West Road, Potter Valley. The earliest that I have seen...
Friday, 2 August 2002 The WHITE-FACED IBIS at the USTP was at the northEAST corner of the south pond, not the northwest. Lots of AMERICAN COOTS of all ages on...
Friday 2 August 2002 A single, duckweed covered, WHITE-FACED IBIS was feeding in the south pond at the Ukiah Sewage Treatment Plant this morning. Phil at the ...
There was a bit of birding that occurred on a recent (7/22-23) Sanhedrin chapter Calif. Native Plant Society (CNPS) fieldtrip to Snow Mt. Hiking into the red...
Thu, 25 July 2002 -- This morning Dorothy Tobkin saw about 80 BLACK-FOOTED ALBATROSSES from Todd's Point which is immediately south of Noyo Harbor accessible...
Fri, 19 Jul 2002 -- Matt and Mike Brady report seeing LESSER YELLOWLEGS today at the pond at the end of Burris Lane in Potter Valley. I went up there about...
Wednesday, 18 July 2002, I had one winter wren show up at the UC Hopland Research & Extension Center. I believe this to be an early bird in migration....
Mon, 15 Jul 2002 -- Dorothy Tobkin reports seeing at least 4 BLACK-FOOTED ALBATROSSES from Laguna Point today along with quite a few Sooty Shearwaters, several...
Last night (July 3-4) I camped at Spruce Grove. Joining me for the evening were a pair of FLAMMULATED OWLS. They first announced their presence about 2230...
Birders, I had a singing male Northern Parula the morning of 6/27/02 along the road to the Casper Cemetery, between the gate and the cemetery. It was high in...
Several observers including Cheryl Watson and Vishnu this morning (Tues. 6/25) failed to find the Rose-Breasted Grosbeak seen yesterday during much of the day...
Greetings Mendobirders: The Ukiah Sewage Treatment Plant oxidation ponds continue to provide some surprisingly ducks for Mendocino County this summer. This...
Sat, 21 Jun 2002 -- After the reports from last weekend by John Hunter and Matthew Matthiessen, I went with Chuck Vaughn to Hull Mountain to look for ...
I am making this posting for Linda Angerer. On June 18 at 1100 Linda reports observing an adult male MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD singing at Mendocino Pass. - Matthew...
Last night (Fri June 21) Linda Angerer and I observed a female LESSER NIGHTHAWK at the Timberline campsite on Boardman Ridge in Lake County. We saw the bird...
Mon, 17 Jun 2002 -- At 08:10 this morning I found a singing GRASSHOPPER SPARROW along Pine Avenue in Potter Valley. About 3/4 mi. up Pine Avenue, as you are...
