14 May 2022 - On the field trip this morning we found a singing Yellow-breasted Chat (rare on the coast) at the Navarro Beach campground. It was vocalizing continuously from some willows just behind a

29 April 2022 - Yesterday evening (4/28) I saw my first Olive-sided Flycatcher of the year in my yard. This morning I heard its familiar song.

16 April 2022 - Our field trip to the Anderson Valley Brewing Company grounds was fun and productive. We ticked all of the hoped-for birds plus a couple of extras. For coastal birders, this is a great

6 April 2022 - This morning I finally heard my first Wilson's Warbler of spring, singing from a riparian zone. Been waiting for these guys. Pacific-slope Flycatchers arrived last week. My Grevillea he

25 February 2022 On a 3-hour cruise out of Noyo Harbor this morning, twelve people enjoyed mild weather and a great show of Northern Fulmars and Black-footed Albatrosses. Heading out of the harbor we

We have 11 people signed up, so we are good to go for a 3-hour pelagic seabirding trip tomorrow morning. If you would like to join us, be at the dock at 8:30 AM to sign in with All Aboard Adventures (

Marine forecast looks quite nice for Friday, so if we can get ten or more people signed up we could run another 3-hour pelagic trip at $75 per person. Right now I have seven people who want to go and

4 February 2022 We assembled just enough people to make a 3-hour pelagic birding trip this morning. We got about 5-6 miles offshore, as far as the upper end of Noyo Canyon. Most bird activity was betw

Marine forecast continues to look good for Friday, in spite of the big swell and wind coming in the next couple of days. By Friday morning it is predicted to be back down to 4-5 feet at 11 seconds, wh

The marine forecast for next Friday (Feb. 4) looks nice, and if I can get a boat, I am hoping to pull together enough people to do a half-day pelagic seabirding trip out to the Noyo Canyon. The charte

23 January 2022 - It was a Black-legged Kittiwake show on the whale-watching cruise today. We didn't even try to get an accurate count, but it was a lot, certainly more than 50 and maybe 100. They wer

Just in case anyone else is interested, a few of us are going out on a whale-watching charter Sunday morning, in hopes of seeing some birds as well. It's only a two-hour cruise, $50 pp, boat departs a

I received word this afternoon that PG&E was "unable to gain access" to the nest tree and will not be taking it down until breeding season is over. The property owner reportedly refused access to the

Yesterday I spoke with Heather Beeler, Regional Eagle Permit Coordinator for the United States Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS). She received a request from PG&E “about a week ago” for emergency approv

This morning (13 January) the PG&E crew arrived to take down the nest tree, but the Eagles were in it, so the crews turned around and left. One could say the Eagles came to their own rescue. Garry Geo

Following up on this and raising an alarm: After hearing that there are two active nests along the Eel River near Van Arsdale I contacted the resident, and it sounds as if he is in fact talking about

Does anyone know of Bald Eagle nesting in Potter Valley? I just heard about a possible threat to a snag being used as a nest. If you know or have any pertinent observations, please contact me directly

Preliminary results from the Fort Bragg CBC on 27 December: Extremely poor weather conditions: Wind 10-15 mph at dawn increasing to 15-25 mph in the afternoon, rain in the morning, showers with occasi

On the north coast the departure was fairly sudden this year. There were hundreds on each of the roosting rocks from Mendocino to Westport around November 3-4, but a week later I saw flocks flying sou

23 December 2021 - Late this afternoon we found a Short-eared Owl hunting around the Noyo Headlands north of Cypress Street (Fort Bragg). It seemed mainly to be working around the big blackberry patch