Saw four Hooded and six Common Mergansers there this morning, as well as two Ruddy Ducks, three female Buffleheads, three Northern Shovelers and a single Double-crested Cormorant. Two Bald Eagles, one

Hi all, Just a few moments ago, as is my habit, I looked up at my next door neighbor's redwood that is dead at the top to see if any Peregrine Falcons were there. This time, instead of a normal-lookin

Hi all! I pulled out my first field guide to birds and leafed through it to see what I had marked as birds I had seen and for some stupid reason, I had BROWN BOOBY listed as at the mouth of the Navarr

Hi, Mary Rose, No, this was at Noyo Headlands. The owls have departed and were not re-found this morning. Feather

My checklist was flagged..... and the location had to be added. I wasn't sure how else to approach this. Really bad photo of one of the SEOWs attached Lisa

I met Shannon Underhill out there with a friend. We got to see the Short-eared Owls. I got a really cruddy few shots of one perched on some blackberry brambles. I submitted a checklist but did not pos

Hi, all, a pair of female King Eiders were recently spotted at Crissy Field in SF. It is believed that they might be the same two female King Eiders that were hanging around in Ventura for a few weeks

Hi all, I caught the calls of an agitated Common Raven flying overhead above my house out in the woods and there were two, chasing a Ferruginous Hawk (!) out over the forest and the hawk was having no

Yesterday I saw two California Gulls with oil spots on their breasts. Same color as this bird. Looks like landed splat on top of an oil slick. Poor thing.

All I am seeing are Red Phalaropes. Tons of them. All flying south or huddled in puddles or, in the case of one, washed up on the shore almost dead. SO many Red Phalaropes! I don't think I have seen a

Hi, all! Where are people meeting for the Manchester CBC on the 2nd and at what time? Lisa

Hi, all! This afternoon as I was returning to my car from a doctor appt at the Mendocino Coast Clinics on South Street, I heard a very distinctly different 'CHIP' call coming from some bushes that bor

This morning, Shannon Underhill and I were at Laguna Pt checking out the hybrid Black/American Oystercatcher. We started searching for the Rock Sandpiper and ended up finding FOUR!!!!! Last year I fou

Hi, all! I returned to the Mendocino coast on December 6th. I'd read a report about a Swamp Sparrow seen at Lake Cleone. Today, I was out there looking for a Rock Sandpiper (no luck) so on my return t

I ran into Art and Marci this morning on the Enchanted Forest Trail and we got to discussing the Avian Flu outbreak among the wild population of birds in the US. An article posted in the Atlantic yest

...at Virgin Creek beach at the far north end where the seaweed wracks have collected. They are hanging out there with Black Turnstones, Western and Least Sandpipers, and the Wandering Tattler with th

Good morning! I decided to go to Virgin Creek this morning and head down to the beach. On the Enchanted Forest Trail were several Yellow Warblers, in addition to the usual suspects. :) On the extreme

Nice Ruff, Shannon! It's a juvenile. :) Lisa

This morning as I walked north on the north side of Virgin Creek Beach, an American Avocet flew past, heading south. After scouting the north end of the beach for other shorebirds, I headed back to th

This morning I decided to follow up on Tim Bray's report from Richard Thornton regarding the Sooty Shearwaters that were off Ten Mile yesterday morning. I went to Laguna Point and though it was unusua