Greetings Mendobirders- The male Costa's Hummingbird continues in our back yard. Barbara and I saw it many times today between 11 am and 330 pm, at maybe 30 minute intervals. We were not home yesterda

Greetings Mendobirders- Barbara and I have seen a male Costa's Hummingbird in our yard on 3 occasions that last 2 days. It has made VERY brief visits to our feeders. I was home and in the yard much of

Greetings Mendobirders- There was a bright female-type Western Tanager in our yard this afternoon, alternately feeding on apples and hawking out of the oaks. We had a very similar bird for a week last

Greetings Mendobirders- Cheryl Watson, Geoff Heinecken, Barbara and I went to the dam parking lot at the south end of Lake Mendocino early this morning for some casual birding. We saw a good variety o

Greetings Mendobirders- Earlier this afternoon there was a first-fall Blackpoll Warbler along the edge of one of the ponds near the HREC office area. This is only the second record for the Center. Chu

Greetings Mendobirders- I went out to the Ukiah Sewage Treatment Plant this morning and saw a juv BROWN PELICAN on the south pond. This is only the second one I remember seeing in Ukiah. The other was

Greetings Mendobirders- Barbara and I birded the Ukiah Sewage Treatment Plant are this morning with Cheryl Watson. The north pond is being drained and there has been lots of mud exposed. There were ~1

Greetings Mendobirders: I visited the Ukiah Sewage Treatment Plant early this morning. The bird of the morning was easily an AMERICAN BITTERN juvenile which I spotted flying S along the Russian River.

Greetings Mendobirders: This morning I birded the Ukiah Sewage Treatment Plant with Cheryl Watson and Geoff Heinecken. The best bird of the morning was a SOLITARY SANDPIPER which we saw along an expos

Greetings Mendobirders- I made a brief, but fruitful, visit to the Ukiah Sewage Treatment Plant early this morning. The middle pond is being drained and there is lots of exposed mud. It seems that som

Greetings Mendobirders: I have added an album of Cassin's Finch photos to the Mendobirds website. These are the "best" of the photos I got of the male feeding on our patio on 4/8. They are in various

Greetings Mendobirders- A male CASSIN'S FINCH made 2 lengthy visits to our backyard feeders this evening. This is only the second time we have seen this bird in our yard, and the only other visit was

Greetings Mendobirders- Barbara and I watched a male CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD as it visited our feeders this afternoon from 4:30 until at least 7:30 when it became too dark to see anything. It was a brigh

Begin forwarded message: I spotted the bird at 9:15 AM Tuesday morning on the recyclable bins in the parking lot next to Caldwell Banker Realty (just as you get into Gualala from Sonoma County and on

Greetings, again, Mendobirders- As sort of a follow-up on Roger's report of a male Western Tanager visiting his Ukiah yard 2 weeks ago, we have watched a bright female visiting our yard yesterday afte

Greetings Mendobirders- I enjoyed this bright morning birding at the Ukiah Sewage Treatment Plant. There was little or no evidence of the recent AMERICAN COOT "die-off". In fact the number of dead coo

Greetings Mendobirders- A male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker made a brief visit to some sap wells in a red berry bush just outside the lab window at HREC this morning. A Red-breasted Sapsucker, apparently

Greetings Mendobirders- A "Red" Fox Sparrow showed up this morning at the feeder outside the lab at HREC. I have posted a very nice photo of the bird, taken by Bob Keiffer, on the Mendobirds website.

Greetings Mendobirders: I made my obligatory Friday morning visit to the USTP today, and the wet, gloomy weather proved lucky for me. I saw an AMERICAN BITTERN in the tall "Smart Weed" on the south ed

Greetings Mendobirders- I visited the Ukiah Sewage Treatment Plant this morning and saw 3 CACKLING GEESE on the south pond. None of them had white-collars so I assume they were probably not "Aleutians