http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/ Mendobirds Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:23:01 GMT Chuck & Barbara Vaughn http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3351 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3351 Greetings Mendobirders- Cheryl Watson, Barbara Dolan and I birded the Ukiah Sewage Treatment Plant this morning. Although there is little shorebird habitat, Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:52:58 GMT George Chaniot http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3350 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3350 Thu, 2 Jul 2009 -- This morning I went to Rodman Slough for my third try for GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE, and I succeeded. I set up my scope at the green gate to the Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:35:23 GMT dbaatlanta http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3349 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3349 This past Saturday 6/26 we were walking along the Eel River in Mendo county just over the hill from Potter Valley when we saw a beautiful yellow bird with a Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:12:56 GMT Karen Havlena http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3348 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3348 ... Subject: Fwd: Hullville Breeding Bird Survey (Lower Hull Mtn Area) ... On the 26th Linda Angerer and I conducted the Hullville BBS which runs from up on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:22:22 GMT Chuck & Barbara Vaughn http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3347 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3347 Greetings Mendobirders- Cheryl Watson, Barbara and I saw 3 adult female WILSON'S PHALAROPES this morning on the sludge pond at the Ukiah Sewage Treatment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:23:08 GMT taylordellis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3346 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3346 Not sure if this is unusual but it struck me as so... a pair of oak titmice in the courtyard by the tasting room at Handley Cellars in Philo on Thursday 6/25, Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:34:08 GMT Karen Havlena http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3345 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3345 Fort Bragg has received some good press in "Bird Watcher's Digest" magazine, July/August '09 issue.  The latest 'Far Afield' column, written by Alvaro Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:09:20 GMT Barbara E. Dolan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3344 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3344 On Sunday 6-21-09 I went to the ponds where the COMMON MOORHEN young were seen. I saw one breeding adult foraging across from me. On arrival I flushed the Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:13:13 GMT Floyd Hayes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3343 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3343 Correction (thanks to John Sterling's query): make that a CASPIAN TERN rather than a ROYAL TERN (I must have been thinking about the Caribbean).   Floyd Hayes Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:24:25 GMT Floyd Hayes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3342 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3342 I had not checked my e-mail for a week (vacationing in Yosemite) when I briefly stopped by Rodman Slough yesterday at 10:00 am, so I was unaware of George Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:37:27 GMT Karen Havlena http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3341 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3341 Thu, 18 June 2009 -- George Chaniot and I met at Mendocino College to look for the two juvenile COMMON MOORHENS at the "rail pond" on the campus of Mendocino Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:23:37 GMT Cate Hawthorne http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3340 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3340 Our kayaking business is at Dolphin Isle on the Noyo, and we have been watching this harlequin duck over the past 2 years. He is one of the first migratories Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:22:00 GMT George Chaniot http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3339 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3339 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 -- I drove over to Rodman Slough on Clear Lake this morning mainly to look for the Great-tailed Grackles reported recently - no luck. I Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:44:26 GMT George Chaniot http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3338 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3338 A single Male Harlequin on the Noyo River June 12, 2009 about 10 AM and again at 5PM. Bud Bernard Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:41:54 GMT katemarianchild http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3337 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mendobirds/message/3337 Two days ago another, smaller snake came and ate all the babies. One adult House Wren mobbed it over and over, and a couple of Anna's Hummingbirds also hovered