On Monday, February 4, I picked out a male EURASIAN WIGEON among AMERICAN WIGEONS at Detert Reservoir near Middletown, Lake County. Floyd Hayes Angwin, CA

Bryan McIntosh and I found four BLACK-NECKED STILTS at Borax Lake last Sunday, April 29. Today I saw six. Given the surprisingly high number of stilts and the successional changes in the lake's vegeta

On Sunday and Monday I briefly visited Redbud Park in Clearlake with students. There were thousands of waterbirds feeding on schools of dying fish (shad, I think, perhaps dying due to cold water), inc

I spent my seventh consecutive summer monitoring breeding Western and Clark's Grebes at Clear Lake, usually once or twice a week by a canoe, but I missed a few weeks due to travel elsewhere. It was a

Yesterday Bryan McIntosh and I found a PARASITIC JAEGER during a waterbird survey at Clear Lake. We first spotted it off Long Tule Point and chased it by motorboat for more than 6 miles as it flew sou

On Sunday the 28th, Bryan McIntosh, Dave Woodward, Jeffrey Maxwell and I conducted a waterbird count by motorboat around the perimeter of Clear Lake. We tallied 12 species of shorebirds, which were th

This afternoon I saw the following birds on the mudflats south of the bridge over Rodman Slough: a WHITE-FACED IBIS, an AMERICAN AVOCET, 8 MARBLED GODWITS, 8 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS and a DUNLIN. Floyd Ha

Apologies for a late report. On Tuesday the 9th we saw a WHITE-FACED IBIS fly across the north end of Clear Lake at dawn. Late in the morning we saw good numbers of sandpipers and terns on the muddy i

Yesterday we saw a BLACK-NECKED STILT, an AMERICAN AVOCET and a PECTORAL SANDPIPER among some of the more common shorebird species in the vicinity of a new mudflat "island" south of the mouth of Rodma

I've been remiss in reporting some bird sightings the past few weeks, nearly all seen in places accessible only by boat, by myself, Bryan McIntosh and Nathan Zimmerlee: On 2 September we saw a female

During a shorter than usual trip to Clear Lake yesterday, we saw a BLACK-NECKED STILT and a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER at Manning Creek (accessible only by boat) plus a small flock of shorebirds, including bot

After posting our sightings from Clearlake and Borax Lake yesterday morning, we saw several other interesting birds on Clear Lake. At the north end of the lake we saw a female HOODED MERGANSER at Nice

This morning we saw two AMERICAN AVOCETS at the northern tip of Austin Park and two FORSTER'S TERNS at Redbud Park in Clearlake. At Borax Lake we saw two SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, a RED-NECKED PHALAROP

Yesterday (August 5) two students and I canoed 14.5 miles on Clear Lake while studying grebes. Our best sighting of the day was two MINK on the rock jetty at Lakeside County Park. I often see River Ot

Correction: we saw a CASPIAN TERN, not a ROYAL TERN! My mind must have wandered back to the Caribbean, where I lived for 10 years. Floyd Hayes Angwin, CA

After an absence of 2 weeks, I returned with two students to Clear Lake yesterday (July 31). Unfortunately we didn't get to Kelsey Creek because we had lots of grebe work to do during a long and very

Minor correction to my previous post: the dowitchers, phalaropes and gull on the 15th were at the mouth of Manning Creek. Floyd Hayes Angwin, CA On Friday, July 18, 2014 4:21 PM, "Floyd Hayes floyd_ha

On Tuesday the 15th my companions and I saw the following birds while canoeing on Clear Lake: one MARBLED GODWIT, one WILLET, one SPOTTED SANDPIPER, one BONAPARTE'S GULL and three FORSTER'S TERNS at t

I forgot to mention that yesterday morning at Kelsey Creek we also saw an EARED GREBE standing on the gravel bar until we approached it. I very rarely see grebes standing on land and always wonder if

Nice find, Steve! From 7:00 to 7:30 this morning only one MARBLED GODWIT was present and, disappointingly, no Whimbrel. Also present were two SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, a CASPIAN TERN, four RIVER OTTERS an