31 October 2010 Between Pt. Arena and Manchester This morning at 11a and again at 1p there was a White-faced Ibis in the fields north of the Garcia River and...
Sun, 31 Oct 2010 -- We had our "first" WHITE-THROATED SPARROW arrive this afternoon in the front yard at Ocean Meadows/Ten Mile. This is the 3rd Fall arrival...
October 31,2010. Lots of larids again today. Yesterday I saw many groups of Heermann's fly past the Botanical Gardens in For Bragg. Many Surf Scoters and...
Mon, 1 Nov 2010 -- This morning, an ad. male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD flew south with a small group of blackbirds west of our house. I could not find them in...
I saw a couple of juvenile gulls in downtown Ukiah today around noon as I was driving around looking for an SF Chronicle (with the Giants win, the newspapers...
A huge storm in the Gulf of Alaska has generated exceedingly high surf along the coast; gulls were everywhere....wouldn't surprise me if those juveniles you...
2 November 2010. This is a difficult sighting to post, but 'tis better to look the fool than to hold back information that could benefit others. I am 90% sure...
Thur, 4 Nov 2010 -- While driving north from Fort Bragg, I stopped to look at two different FERRUGINOUS HAWKS. One was a sub-adult just a tad south of Little...
Earlier today, Rich Trissel and I went birding on both sides of the Gualala River. While there are several hundred Gulls on the Gualala River beach, the river...
Saw what I thought was a Western Kingbird on the headlands in the Botanical Gardens. On further reflection it could have been a Tropical Kingbird. Didn't have...
I have noticed increasing numbers of robins in the Talmage area for the last two weeks. There are not yet thousands like the last couple of years, but there...
Thursday November 4th: While scoping the ocean from the Juan Creek overlook I found 5 ANCIENT MURRELETS amongst a mixed flock of feeding seabirds. After a few...
I checked on the Common Moorhens at the College today. I saw four of them again. I think they will overwinter unless something goes wrong to scare them off....
Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010 Was down at Van Damme beach in Littleriver today and saw a banded mature Western Gull standing on the hood of the car next to me about 6...
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Nov 7, 2010 6:42 pm
Hi, I saw this bird at the Gardens yesterday, 11/6, about 9 AM, sitting on a Monterey cypress at the north bluff area, near the bluff restrooms. It had a ...
More Hooded Mergansers joined the original 8 at the Beckstoffer Pond on Talmage Road today (2:45). There were 22 today. There was also a Kingfisher. At the...
Rich Hubacek directed me to a posting done in January 2010 where this gull was spotted by George Chaniot, et al. It seems this gull was banded in the...
I had two Evening Grosbeaks at Boggs Mountain State Forest in Cobb this morning at 10:30 am. They were sighted from the Interpretive Trail foraging in the...
Tue, 9 Nov 2010 -- I saw a fairly pale TENNESSEE WARBLER along the Skunk RR tracks in Fort Bragg, east of Rose Memorial Park. The bird was with a large flock...
At the Ukiah Treatment Ponds on the westerly fenceline of the sludge pond there was a White-throated Sparrow this morning. About an hour later in the same...
Mendocino Coast Audubon Program Monday, November 15, 2010 7:00 pm Fort Bragg Town Hall Main and Laurel Streets, Fort Bragg The Sandwich Isles: The Geology,...
11/11/2010 Mel Smith called yesterday to say he had spotted five TUNDRA SWANS off Stoneboro Road on the Garcia River floodplains. And I'll throw in a green...
Fri, 12 Nov 2010 -- Richard Hubacek spotted 4 or 5 HORNED LARKS on the Haul Road about a quarter mile south of Ten Mile River. Walk west on the road from the...
There were 14 GWFG at the Gielow Pond on River Road at 1:45 today. I did not notice them for 20 minutes because they were walking down Gielow Lane partly in...
FYI, North Bay Birds reported a Lapland Longspur in Little River this morning: “In Mendocino County this morning at 10 am, a single Lapland Longspur was...
Since I haven't seen any rare or particularly interesting birds lately, I thought I would pass along an interesting behavioral observation on two of our most...
Saturday - 13 Nov ember 2010 - A Lewis's Woodpecker along University Road on the UC- Hopland Research and Extension Center, about 200 yards north of "Vassar...
11/15/10 I looked up while on the phone early this afternoon and saw two birds dancing in the sky. They stayed long enough for me to take photographs. I...
Yesterday I birded around Clear Lake with Doug Weidemann. The only noteworthy bird was a female YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER returning for the third consecutive...
