Tue Feb 22, 2011-- Today at Virgin Creek Beach I found a seemingly distressed BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE resting on the rocks about halfway between the creek and...
A single White-winged Scoter was just downstream of the public boat launch ramp on the south-side of the Noyo yesterday at ~2:30pm. Also seen: Western Grebe,...
Monday February 21, 2010 - This morning saw the arrival of the first Allen's Hummingbird of the year to our front yard, which he immediately claimed and began...
FYI: Ed Pandolfino is the "North American Birds" Editor for most of the small passerines in Northern California. Please read his post below... ... From:...
South of Laguna point boardwalk at McKerricher SP around 1 pm - resting amongst a group of Brandt's and Pelagic Cormorants - my husband, David Flaim, spotted...
Sun, 20 Feb 2011 -- A 1st cycle GLAUCOUS GULL flew above the houses across the street as I watched from my living room window. I could clearly see the bill was...
Fellow birders, I observed a lone adult Bald Eagle soaring over Highway 101 and Walker Road intersection this afternoon at about 2:15 PM. It was being...
I saw a glaucous gull, perhaps the same one Toby saw, that appears to be a second year gull, on the Haul Road along the MacKerricker State Park Headlands, in...
Was watching the resident western gull couple today at the Mendocino Headlands when a peregrine falcon war broke out. All the gulls dived for cover and became...
This morning I had a 1st cycle Glaucous Gull just north of the Laguna Point parking lot, MacKerricher SP. Two days ago, I saw a 1st year Thayer's Gull at the...
We seem to be having a lot of varied thrushes right now over here on the coast (irruption?). At least in my neck of the woods. Along with these varied thrushes...
Greetings Mendobirders- I was able to get out to the Ukiah Wastewater Treatment Plant late this morning, after the rain, for some birding. Of local interest...
Awesome Oaks, Habitat, Not Just Wood Oaks are mighty and majestic, historic and memorable, but also overlooked and ignored. Greg Giusti will tell us about...
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 -- The Peregrine Audubon field trip to the south Mendocino coast found a few of the continuing rarities : 3 LEWIS'S WOODPECKER on and near...
This afternoon Angie Meroshnekoff watched a Golden Eagle resting in the redwood tree in her backyard at White Dog Ranch. After the crows harassed him for a...
This morning there was a Bald Eagle, the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, and a Common Moorhen which was in the slough on the west side of the park. On the drive out...
Thu Feb 10, 2011--On this wonderful sunny winter day I walked from Ward Ave to Fen Creek. I counted 31 SNOWY PLOVERS along the way. Most (27) were near the...
Join Mendocino Coast Audubon Society on Monday, February 21, 7 PM at Fort Bragg Town Hall for a compelling program on climate change in the Arctic Dr. George...
This afternoon there was a male TUFTED DUCK at Borax Lake.Other birds of general interest earlier today were a Pacific Wren and a House Wren found near...
Today is the 10th anniversary of Mendobirds. Message #1 was posted by moderator George Chaniot below 10 years ago: "Cassin's Finch at Low Elevation Thu, 8...
Early this morning there was a female BUFFLEHEAD and three male RUDDY DUCKS at the Clearlake Sewage Ponds. Light conditions were poor at Borax Lake, where I...
Today's boat trip: Common Mergansers American Pipit Acorn Woodpeckers Double-crested Cormorants Black Phoebe Bald Eagles (a pair - and a first time opportunity...
Was out watching the resident Peregrine falcon (aka Gull Killer) at Bird Rock on the Mendocino Headlands yesterday. The best show however were the ravens...
Fri Feb 4, 2011--I found an AMERICAN DIPPER today at Van Damme State Park a little after noon. It was behind the first restrooms to the left as you enter the...
We went to Clear Lake SP today and the there were some early Violet Green Swallows. I saw them two weeks ago in the Sacramento Valley, so I was not too...
Thur, 3 Feb, 2011 -- The 2 LEWIS'S WOODPECKERS were flying between telephone poles 119 and 120 on Boonville Rd (Hwy 253) around 10:30-am. I came from the...
At 5:10 p.m. we found one of the Lewis's Woodpeckers described by Jack Booth and Dave Bengston on telephone pole #120 on the Boonville Road (253). It flew...
I went up to see the L Woodpeckers on Hwy 253 (Boonville Rd) that Jack Booth Reported. I found two of them. They were on telephone poles #s 119 and 120 on...
This morning at 9:20 - 9:30, two Evening Grosbeaks came to feed at my platform feeder. I think that they are immature males. They are all yellow, including...
