Hello Mendo Birders, I am a birder from Santa Fe, NM and will be in Mendocino for a week Aug 23 to thru the 28th. I have read the "Birders Guide to N CA" and...
Birders, Just so there is no misunderstanding I was asking for recommendations for a person to show me the birds of the area! Jim Nelson-Moore Santa Fe, New...
Howdy, You can check the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens website: http://www.gardenbythesea.org, as they have an Audubon in the Gardens bookstore there....
Hi again, I would recommend contacting someone at that Audubon in the Gardens bookstore for a recommendation, as it's hard to tell when some of our better ...
Greetings Mendobirders- Earlier this evening I had a Caspian Tern noisily flying over my yard toward Lake Mendocino. This is by far the earliest inland...
Mendocino Coast Audubon has scheduled a Fall Pelagic Trip out of Noyo Harbor on Saturday, September 25th . This is a 7 -8 hour trip aboard the Trek II out of...
Thursday, 15 July 2004, UC Hopland Research & Extension Center. The female Purple Martin was observed atop a power pole near the power pole with the...
Robert J. Keiffer
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Jul 16, 2004 6:14 pm
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Thu, 15 Jul 2004 -- Today at Lake Mendocino I saw at least 7, possibly 11, CASPIAN TERNS on various parts of the lake. All were adults. This still seems early...
Monday - 19 July 2004 - Both the male and female Purple Martins were observed this morning near the power pole with the probable nest cavity located in the...
Robert J. Keiffer
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Jul 19, 2004 5:41 pm
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Tuesday - 20 July 2004 - This morning at around 9:00 AM Chuck Vaughn, while working with the Lyme Disease Research mist-netting group, mist netted an adult...
Robert J. Keiffer
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Jul 20, 2004 6:01 pm
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Thursday 22 July 2004 - the Mendocino county Public Health Dept. and Agricultural Dept. confirmed that the West Nile Virus has reached Mendocino County. An...
Robert J. Keiffer
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Jul 22, 2004 11:03 pm
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Sat, 24 Jul 2004 -- Jan and I birded from Mendocino to Arena Cove today. I spent a good bit of effort scoping to sea from the Vista Point north of Irish Beach...
Greetings Mendobirders: This morning at the Ukiah Sewage Treatment Plant I found an imm. Wilson's Phalarope on the north pond (lake!). There was also an imm....
The Mendocino County bird list is fast approaching number 400. The Red-eyed Vireo was # 395. The recent split of Canada Goose will add another bird (Cackling...
August 1, 2004 Dear North American Birds Contributors, The summer season has already come to a close so please send your noteworthy records from the Middle...
The wild rice on Reclamation Road near Upper Lake has been harvested and most of the checks have been drained. This afternoon there was one White-faced Ibis...
I was unable to locate Dave's Ibis this evening but did run across some other pretty good birds. Some shorebird habitat has formed in the flooded rice fields...
This list represents my personal choices for the most likely new additions to the Mendocino County Bird List.There are numerous records for most of these...
From Toby Tobkin; the 10 most likely possibilities in AOU order: 1) Short-tailed Albatross 2) Broad-winged Hawk 3) Snowy Owl (why not dream) 4) Gray...
Mendobirders, Good list. The lack of Gray Flycatcher on the Mendo list really surprises me. In Humboldt and Trinity, a few are pretty regular at some dry...
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Aug 13, 2004 3:25 pm
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Mendobirders, If others would like to get in on this game of predicting the next ten species to be added to the Mendocino list, there is a table in the ...
John Hunter brought up some questions concerning the status of that species in Lake and Mendocino. Lake County has 3 records; 5-29-1999 at Goat Mt. (near Snow...
During the initial process of choosing the most likely adds for Mendocino, I found (because of the high number of possibilities) that is was fairly easy to...
Greetings Mendobirders, I guess I will join the group of "crystal ball" theorists and supply my list of "Top Ten" expected species to show up in Mendocino...
Robert J. Keiffer
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Aug 15, 2004 4:35 pm
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Where can I get a copy of (or look at) the official Mendocino County checklist? I'd like to join in this game, but I don't want to look foolish by putting...
Mendobirders - I just checked John Sterling's Excel Countybirds spreadsheet. Under Mendocino County, it shows that Gray Flycatcher HAS BEEN SEEN in the ...
Thanks Steve for pointing that out.....I have a vague recollection of a Gray Flycatcher record for Mendocino several years ago but I cannot recall any details...