Friday, 25 May 2012. During a breeding bird survey this morning, we found a pair of California Towhees, one of them “singing,” approximately twenty yards...
Tue, 22 May 2012 -- This morning at the Old Bridge on Potter Valley Road there were no juvenile dippers to be seen, but there was an adult sitting inside the...
Based on the notes I have kept and the general knowledge I have of other pelagic trips done over the years there have been (an estimated) 20 to 25 Spring...
Sun, 20 May, 2012 -- I forgot to mention the LONG-TAILED JAEGER and PARASITIC JAEGER seen on the trip. If other birds of importance to Mendobirds readers...
20 May 2012 - After the successful pelagic trip, Rob Fowler, Dave Bengston, Matthew Matthiessen, Ryan Keiffer, and I went to see the continuing White-faced...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 7PM in the Ukiah City Council Chambers The incomparable Matthew Matthiessen will bring his beautiful photographs and talented story...
Sun, 20 May, 2012 -- A 1st year SHORT-TAILED ALBATROSS was spotted by the sharp eyes of Todd Easterla on the Spring Mendocino Coast Audubon pelagic trip out of...
May 19, 2012 - A White-faced Ibis is at Lake Cleone right next to the parking lot, found by Dorothy Tobkin, and also seen by Rob Doster, Art Morley and myself....
The Spring male Lapland Longspur continues at Virgin Creek, just south of the mouth of the creek along the headland trails near the 'dip' there, where a...
Thanks to Rich Hubacek for finding the first known Double-crested Cormorant nesting rookery in the area, I have been trying to get a photograph of one on the...
Wednesday, 16 May 2012 - On the regular third-Wednesday birdwalk at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, we had 60 species, one short of the record for this...
Hey PV birders - there is a hawk's nest on Gibson near Hawn Creek in a stand of oaks. I think it's a redtail nest, but haven't been able to get a good view of...
This is what I we have been seeing from both the deck of Liquid Fusion Kayaking and the old launch ramp at Dolphin Isle Marina: Pair of Green Herons Two...
Monday May 14, 2012 Steve Stump spotted a pair of GREAT-TAILED GRACKLES near the middle pond at the Ukiah Wastewater Treatment Plant this morning. I arrived...
Coming back into Ukiah w/ mom today, we stopped in Calpella to see the osprey nest. What a gift for mom: we arrived just as one of the parents was circling the...
13 May, 2012 -- Dorothy Tobkin called that Lake Cleone was a busy place today.There were a FORSTER'S TERN, a pair of BLUE-WINGED TEAL, an obvious GREEN...
Greetings Mendobirders- Steve Stump found 15 White-faced Ibis at the UWTP early this morning. By 745, they had all left the ponds. I saw 3 fly out to the...
Dave and others on the Eel River field trip wondered whether MacGillivray's Warblers are ground nesters. No, is the answer I found in a couple of old bird...
Sat, 12 May 2012 -- The Peregrine Audubon field trip today visited the Old Bridge on Potter Valley Road, the Eel River canyon from Pioneer Crossing Bridge to...
What gives us intermediate birders trouble is when two similar species occur similtaneously in the same spot. I was watching a Red-necked Phalarope on Lake...
I had a Lawrence's Goldfinch at my seed feeders in FB (corner of Alder & McKinley) late yesterday. I haven't seen it yet today. It was traveling with a...
Monday, April 30, 2001, I just watched one (maybe two, male Lawrence's Goldfinches with a large feeding flock (about 40 birds) of Lesser Goldfinches. They can...
Approximately 0830 this am, I there was a Great-Tailed Grackle flying from the Russian River to the Sludge Lagoon. It was there for approximately 3 minutes. As...
I neglected to specify that the Lawrence's Goldfinch seen yesterday in Fort Bragg was a fully breeding plumage male--unmistakeable, gorgeous bird. Roger...
10 May 2012 - I don't usually carry on with "message" type messages, but I think that this is extremely important to all concerned about birds. And ...this...
Yesterday evening (5/9/12) my friend Michael and I hiked some of the Valley View trail. On the way down in the dark I stopped at a hollow steel post. As I told...
Hi all, It's getting to be that time of year again - actually on Pt. Cabrillo is already is that time of year! Susan Tubbesing has been watching a chick for ...
Today, Chuck Vaughn and I visited Mendocino College to see the Common Gallinules. We saw only one adult. I returned about an hour later and found both adults...
Thur, 10 May, 2012 -- Four RED PHALAROPES, six RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, a MARBLED GODWIT and thirteen WHIMBRELS were at Seaside Beach at the north end on the...
