Date: 7/25/24 10:25 am From: NANCY AND EUGENE HUNN via groups.io <enhunn323...> Subject: Re: [Mendobirds] Offshore seabirding trip, August 5
Hello Mendo Birders,
Just a note that the Redwood Region Ornithological Society (RROS, based in Santa Rosa) is sponsoring two fall pelagic trips from Bodega Bay, Sunday, August 18 and Sunday, September 29. These are all day trips leaving Porto Bodega aboard the New Sea Angler at 7 AM, returning ca. 5 PM, visiting the continental shelf between Bodega Canyon and Cordell Banks. Price is $180 ($120 for students). Space is now available for both trips. If interested, contact Gene Hunn via e-mail at <enhunn323...> mailto:enhunn323@com
Gene Hunn, for RROS pelagics
> On 07/22/2024 12:28 PM PDT Tim Bray <tbray...> wrote:
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> We have an all-day offshore seabirding trip planned for Monday August 5 and there are spaces still available. The trip will depart Noyo Harbor (Fort Bragg) at 7 AM on the Kraken, returning around 5 PM. Cost is $175 per person. Contact Chuck Vaughn, <cevaughn...> mailto:<cevaughn...> to reserve your space.
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> Weather permitting and with enough participants, we hope to get 30+ miles offshore in search of rare seabirds like the Cook's Petrel that was recently sighted outside the Farallon Islands. This is also a good time of year to find Hawaiian Petrels, and other even rarer birds are possible. Albatrosses and Shearwaters will be present, and we can expect some migrant Jaegers, Terns, and perhaps Sabine's Gulls.
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> Cheers,
> Tim
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" There will be road construction on Mountain View Road, CR 510, beginning August 5, 2024. Traffic may be delayed up to 5 hours due to the size and limited mobility of the equipment. Construction will begin each morning at 7:00 am and stop between 12:00 pm to 12:30 pm to allow traffic through. Construction will cease at 5:30 pm each day, however work may be required on the weekend and after 6:00 pm. Please check the website regularly for further updates. Once road construction begins, the website will be updated daily with specific locations/mileposts of the next day’s closure limits."
I have attached a map. It's between Stornetta and Boonville and I know this road is often used by Mendocino County birders.
Date: 7/22/24 12:28 pm From: Tim Bray via groups.io <tbray...> Subject: [Mendobirds] Offshore seabirding trip, August 5
We have an all-day offshore seabirding trip planned for Monday August 5
and there are spaces still available. The trip will depart Noyo Harbor
(Fort Bragg) at 7 AM on the Kraken, returning around 5 PM. Cost is $175
per person. Contact Chuck Vaughn, <cevaughn...> to reserve your
space.
Weather permitting and with enough participants, we hope to get 30+
miles offshore in search of rare seabirds like the Cook's Petrel that
was recently sighted outside the Farallon Islands. This is also a good
time of year to find Hawaiian Petrels, and other even rarer birds are
possible. Albatrosses and Shearwaters will be present, and we can
expect some migrant Jaegers, Terns, and perhaps Sabine's Gulls.
Date: 7/10/24 8:59 pm From: Tim Bray via groups.io <tbray...> Subject: [Mendobirds] Ancient Murrelets
Paul Miller just sent me photos of an Ancient Murrelet in breeding
plumage, seen off Laguna Point. This is the second one documented on the
coast in the last few days - I found one at Elk while fishing last
Monday. I don't think I had ever seen one here in summer before and am
wondering why they aren't in SE Alaska right now.
Date: 7/8/24 3:12 pm From: Jessica Morton via groups.io <jessica...> Subject: [Mendobirds] Virgin Creek Monday
Seen on the beach Monday July 8 midday by Margaret Reiter and me, with the very good luck of Alison Cebula happening by in time to ID the last bird for us:
Black-Bellied Plover
The continuing Heerman’s Gull convention
3 Greater Yellowlegs
A gorgeous Short-Billed Dowitcher, snoozing on the shore rocks at the south edge of Virgin Creek on the beach
Date: 7/7/24 7:28 am From: Tim Bray via groups.io <tbray...> Subject: [Mendobirds] Nashville Warbler, Albion
7 July 2024 - This morning I finally got a decent look at the Warbler
that has been foraging in my landscaping for the past few days. I
expected it to be an Orange-crowned but instead it is a Nashville.
Strange to see one here at this time of year.
Date: 6/29/24 9:22 am From: Tim Bray via groups.io <tbray...> Subject: [Mendobirds] Mendocino July 4 Parade
The Mendocino Coast Audubon Society will once again migrate through the
village of Mendocino as part of the famous July 4 Parade. We'll meet at
the corner of Little Lake and Kasten Streets at 10:30 to get our shtik
figured out. At the end of the parade we will celebrate with beer and
sausages (the functional equivalent of beach wrack) while the crowd
tries to figure out how to get out of town.
Please contact me if you plan to join us, so I have an idea of how many
people we will have in our entry: <tbray...>
