Steve Smith, who lives here at Round Mountain, saw a dead GBH right next to Lake Pennyroyal a few days ago. He said one leg had been pulled out of its socket....
Hi all, I forgot to mention that on Sunday there was a Peregrine Falcon circling with Turkey Vultures over Potter Valley. Steve Glover Dublin [Non-text...
Saturday night David Nelson and I visited Montgomery Woods to see if the BARRED OWLS are still there. We heard the first BAOW on the hillside to the south of...
Hi all, I spent Sunday making a big loop through Mendocino Co. Nothing rare but some interesting things. I stopped to scope the ocean south of Pt. Arena and...
1 Dec. 2002, Sunday, "AL" the Laysan Albatross was sleeping on the water 100 yards north of the pier at noon today. One visiting birder was arriving to look...
28 Nov 2002 - Thursday (Happy Thanksgiving) The Greater Sandhill Crane could still be found at the Garcia Flats. No sign of the earlier reported Lesser...
This morning I visited Burris Lane in Potter Valley with David Nelson. We had one PRAIRIE FALCON consuming breakfast in the top of a dead oak to the northwest...
On Thanksgiving morning I spent spent an hour doing a seawatch at Laguna Point. The weather was warm, the wind was slight, and the sea was calm. Best bird was...
There is not one Sandhill Crane at Garcia Flats today. There are two. One Greater and one Lesser. At the end of Brush Creek in the wetlands were, with the...
A Taiga Merlin preened itself luxuriously atop the yellow pine 40 feet from my door at Round Mountain this morning. It was startled a couple of times by a...
Yesterday morning I ran back over to the south Mendo coast to try and turn up one of the Rough-legged Hawks reported from there last week. On the drive over...
This afternoon Gary and Judy Maddox and I saw the SANDHILL CRANE at Garcia Flats at about 1515. The bird was along the fenceline midway out in the field...
No sign of the snow bunting at Laguna point on Wednesday. I saw a red-breasted sapsucker here at Round Mountain on Tuesday - is that rare for here? I've never...
Thu, 21 Nov 2002 -- This morning, after a predawn trip to the Santa Rosa Airport, I decided to come home the long way up the coast and look for the Sandhill...
Toby Tobkin reports that three (3) HORNED LARKS made a brief appearance at the Mendocino Headlands this morning. The birds landed on the ground near the...
I walked out the door of my yurt at Round Mountain on Sunday morning (11/17) and saw a raptor on the upper dead branch of a fir tree about 50 feet away. A...
19 Nov. 2002 This morning I arrived at Garcia Flats at 0900 and immediately saw the lone Sandhill Crane from the Highway 1 pullout near the guard rail just...
Yesterday morning at 0830 Chuck Vaughn, Ollie Kolkman, and I were able to relocate the SANDHILL CRANE on the Garcia Flats. The bird was on the north side of...
Hello Mendobirders, Today - Sunday 11/17 - at 10:00 am a MERLIN with avian prey (species unknown) in its talons flew across lovely downtown Calpella and lit on...
MendoBirders, Some days just don't go according to plan. The plan was simple: find the Snow Bunting at MacKerricher State Park and maybe a Lapland Longspur;...
16 Nov 2002 The snow bunting was very cooperative all day with numerous birders getting great looks and photographic opportunities. It was on the south...
Greetings Mendobirders: Today's Peregrine Audubon field trip, with many participants, to Covelo/Round Valley was a great success. We saw 2 FERRUGINOUS HAWKS...
Greetings Mendobirders: Toby Tobkin reports the continuing presence of the SNOW BUNTING at Laguna Point in McKerricher State Park this morning. She saw it...
I received a call last night from David Nelson indicating that he oberved the SNOW BUNTING at Laguna Point yesterday afternoon (Nov 14) at 1530. He also...
Hi Mendobirders, My name is Richard Gage, the guy who saw the SNOW BUNTING on the 11th. Now that my girlfriend, Fei, realizes that people will get worked up...
This afternoon Vishnu, George Chaniot, and I relocated the basic female SNOW BUNTING that has been at Laguna Point the past couple days. The bird was in the...
Hi, everyone. I went back later this afternoon around 2:40 PM and stayed for a while getting some shots. I have them up at my server if anyone would like to ...
Greetings Mendobirders: After this morning's emails re the Snow Bunting, Bob Keiffer and I headed to the coast mid-morning today. We met Toby at 1145 and she...
I'm looking for more info about Saturday's Covelo trip. I am interested in coming but I have to be back in Willits by 3 pm so I am thinking of taking my own...
How likely is this? This afternoon after I got out of a board meeting, I noticed first, the calls of a Northern Mockingbird from behind me. I located him,...
