Hi All, I need an Anna's hummingbird nest of the inland oak woodland style for my “show-and-tell” collection. The birds don’t re-use them, so it’s OK to harvest them. The one I have is really flimsy w

27 May, 2019 While I was leading an interpretive walk at the Oak Granary (private land on Eel River Road slightly north of Hopper’s Corner in Potter Valley), I saw one male and one female-type Lawrenc

Wow! Has anyone else seen any? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kate Marianchild Author, Secrets of the Oak Woodlands: Plants and Animals among California’s Oaks www.katemarianchild.com 707-463-0839 (h) 707-472-1930 (c)

Saturday, December 22, 2018. 11:30-12 noon – Today I saw a Townsend’s solitaire northwest of Ukiah, about 4 miles west of Parducci Winery on Parducci Road on the land known as “Heartland.” I first saw

Mary Buckley sent me this photo. She thinks this bird has been around for months so it obviously isn’t starving. Thoughts anyone? Kate ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kate Marianchild Author, Secrets of the Oak Woodlan

Yesterday, January 1, 2018, Lisa Ray spotted a red-naped sapsucker on the south side of Lake Mendocino near the Woodpecker Trail. We and two other friends watched it repeatedly came back to the same t

Dear Birders, I have a pair of binoculars waiting for pick-up at Out of This World. I need them by Friday for my Walking in Wonder class which takes place on Saturday. These binoculars will be the spa

Does anyone have a decent photo of wood ducks foraging for acorns? Preferably taken in California. I'd like to use it in a slideshow I will be giving at the Monterey Bay Birding Festival, which is com

Here's a better description of "Pleasure of Believing" Roberta Shea's neighbors call her the bird-woman and think she's a little bit nuts. Maybe she is. She's given up her heritage--the Uncle John Ran

A friend of mine who lives in Walnut Creek has an active Anna's nest in her atrium. By January 10 it was mostly built. Yesterday, 2/23, she wrote, "I saw my first wing buzz this morning, not very musc

December 4, 2015, 12:30-1:30 pm I walked up to Lake Pennyroyal today for the first time in about a month, and was happily surprised to find a lot going on: 35 common mergansers (31 f, 4 m) 4 hooded me

3/27/15 Round Mountain Ranch: first spring sighting of a western kingbird. 3/29/15 Round Mountain Ranch: oak titmice chicks were cheeping in a nest box today. Kate Marianchild

11/6/14 I am seeing Steller's Jays, at Round Mountain Ranch near Parducci Winery (NW of Ukiah), this year for the first time. Kate

Hi All, Most of the CA quail I saw last weekend (9/20-22) at Needle Rock on the Lost Coast had multiple top-knot feathers showing--at least two but sometimes three, I think. As you probably know, a ty

I was at Needle Rock in the Sinkyone Wilderness State Park (Lost Coast) last weekend. On 9/21 I saw a group of 14 elegant terns. They hung out on the beach for most of the day and were gone on Monday.

I've seen some decent-sized coveys with young of the year, one possibly representing a joining of two families because there were two adult females and one male plus about 22 juveniles. Communal child

Hello Birders, I met Krissa Klein at Mill Creek Pond on Monday and she showed me six or seven nests of various species that she'd found. One was a titmouse nest in a hollow steel fence post. The paren

From Wednesday, January 22, Lake Pennyroyal, 1.5 miles E. of Parducci Winery, Ukiah on private property. I'm not sure if this is newsworthy or not, but last Wednesday I saw four male canvasbacks on La

Does anyone know what kinds of acorns the ACWOs on the coast in the Fort Bragg area are eating? Usually they only live in areas with two species of oak. I assume they must be harvesting tanoak acorns,

Hello Birders, Yesterday morning I found five nests in the space of an hour along the valley oak-lined dirt road into Round Mountain Ranch. The first was a house finch nest. It was completely conceale