Monday, March 31, 2014

Ferne Fedeli's donkey, Jack, puts up with Common Ravens shearing hair right off his back!

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Birds are gathering nesting materials on the Mendonoma Coast. But two brazen Ravens are taking their gathering of hair to a new level. Ferne...

Perhaps the loveliest of them all, Calypso Orchids are blooming in untouched forests.

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Jinx McCombs is fortunate indeed. She has what she calls a messy forest. In that untouched forest is a group of Calypso Orchids. They won...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

Two Rothchild Giraffes, as photographed by Emilie Raguso.

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Giraffes in Point Arena? You bet! The B. Bryan Preserve has a group of these endangered giraffes. Emilie Raguso recently visited the preserv...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Allen's or Rufous Hummingbird? Only the experts know for sure.

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Allen's and Rufous Hummingbirds look so similar that sometimes even the most experienced birder can't tell one from the other. I...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

The Stornetta Lands waterfall is back in all its glory!

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There is a beautiful waterfall on the Point Arena-Stornetta Lands. However several years ago the waterfall "broke." The water no l...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Mission Bells - they are difficult to find but Frank Drouillard found them.

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I have not yet seen these perennial wildflowers. They grow near oaks and can be hard to spot. Frank first noticed the stems and then went ba...
Monday, March 24, 2014

The first Ospreys have returned to the Mendonoma Coast.

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Oh, to live where Ospreys choose to nest is such a joy. On March 10th the first Ospreys, males, returned to the Mendonoma Coast. Paul Brewer...