November 10 2012. Highlights from today’s annual Mendocino Coast Audubon Society field trip to view hawks of the south coast include adult Bald Eagle at...
Today I went to the Ukiah Water Treatment Plant, 1st with Roger Foote to lead a small group of beginners. Later, I joined up with Jack Booth. In the 1st...
Wed, 07 Nov 2012 - On Wednesday I found a PRAIRIE FALCON about one mile up Pine Avenue sitting on a fence post eating a ground-squirrel. There were at least...
November 6, 2012 Dear fellow birders, This morning I birded the fields and dry ponds to the north of the Willits Skateboard Park. Best bird was an adult male...
Mon, 5 Nov 2012 -- This morning we had a pale PALM WARBLER in the front yard. It appeared to be another immature "Western" female. The breast streaking...
Nov. 4, 2012 There were at least six Surf Scoters on Clear Lake today. There were three at the outlet of Kelsey Creek in Clear Lake State Park at the same...
Jack Booth & I birded the Mendocino Coast today, 11.2.12. At Laguna Point we spotted an Elegant Tern from the 1st observation deck looking west. It was...
Saturday 3 November 2012 - While I was looking over the Coots, Ring-Necked Ducks, and Pied-Billed Grebe on the Caspar Pond, a smaller rail-like bird briefly...
3 Nov 2012 -- Dorothy Tobkin called that she saw a LONG-TAILED DUCK at the north end of Ward Avenue, Cleone. She presumed that it is a female. She also...
Fri, 2 Nov 2012 -- Four, adult male BLACK SCOTERS have arrived at the north end of Ward Avenue, Cleone. Having checked this spot several times lately, today...
November 1, 2012 Today at about 2:30 pm there were 16 WOOD DUCKS and 6 HOODED MERGANSERS at the lower runoff pond at Mendocino College. The 3 (resident?)...
Tuesday, October 19, 2004. Today I found a Palm Warbler at the Mendocino County Avilla Center on south Franklin Street in Fort Bragg. There were also two...
This morning there were 11 Hooded Mergansers on Beckstoffer's Pond on Old River Road. This is directly south of Talmage about 1 mile on the west side of the...
I birded at Lake Co today. Best was a Say's Phoebe at the Nice-Lucerne Cutoff. It was on the south side of the road on a fence running North to South located...
Spotted the Lapland Longspur on the Mendocino Headlands today by the memorial marker.... south parking area..... he was hanging around with some Savannah...
Fri. Oct. 26, 2012 Dear fellow birders, Joined-at-the-hip Dave Bengston and Jack Booth accompanied me to the Willits Wastewater Treatment Plant this morning....
Thus. Oct. 25, 2012 Dear fellow birders: A good variety of birds of prey in Little Lake Valley today. Best was a Praire Falcon (probable female). It was...
Chuck Vaughn on an audubon field trip found two SURF SCOTERS at the Kelsey Creek outlet on Sunday. I looked Monday with no success. Yesterday I went again to...
This am about 9:30 I spotted a Tropical Kingbird at The Sea Ranch. It was feeding from a tree adjacent to the Black Point Beach public access. I observed it...
19 Oct 2012 -- I saw one of the LAPLAND LONGSPURS at Mendocino Headlands near the "monument"; amidst the short grass. It took off when a mixed flock 50+ yds...
Wednesday 17 October 2012 - On our regular third-Wednesday birdwalk, we tallied 58 species, unusually high for this late in the year. Nothing particularly...
Thu Oct 18, 2012--There were three LAPLAND LONGSPURS near the monument on the Mendocino Headlands this afternoon. They were very approachable. Richard Hubacek ...
Friday - 3 Dec 2004 - The first white-throated sparrow for the season showed up at Chuck Vaughn's feeding station here at UC-HREC. I believe it is a first...
18 Oct 2012 -- This morning I heard buzzing and saw a HOUSE WREN being harassed by a couple of crowned sparrows! This was in the field where a trail goes...
Stan Beach called on Monday saying he had 2 BURROWING OWLS at the northwest corner of Lake Pillsbury in an area that is now a dry lakebed. I went up yesterday...
Hi All, I just received photos and the story of a sighting of an adult BALD EAGLE, Saturday Oct. 13th in the afternoon. It flew to a snag just north of the...
16 October 2012 -- A pair of HARLEQUIN DUCKS was in the small cove about a hundred yards SE of the Laguna Point platform at high tide. While watching them in...
There was a pair (at least) of psittacines yesterday that hung around Oakwood Rd in Surfwood (Mendocino) yesterday from the afternoon into the evening. They...
Sat., Oct. 12, 2012: Toby Tobkin reported seeing two GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE at Lake Cleone. They were close to the shore on the north side of the lake...
Sat., Oct. 13, 2012: This morning there was an adult male HARLEQUIN DUCK at Glass Beach in Fort Bragg. He was in the cove south of the main beach (walk...
