Many thanks to all who have generously responded to our end-of-the-year letter. A list of donors will appear in the March Leaves.

Longtime Madrone Audubon leaders and inveterate world travelers Betty Burridge and Diane and Bryant Hichwa took a birding and wildlife trip to Alaska in June, 2004. Join them for an illustrated armchair tour of Alaska's awe-inspiring wild areas.

A preview from the participants: "We begin at Prudhoe Bay in Deadhorse, north of the Arctic Circle. The treeless coastal tundra has permafrost 2000 feet deep in winter but teems with wildlife in summer-caribou, arctic fox, muskoxen, and grizzlies share the plain with Rough-legged Hawks, Snow Buntings and eiders. We explore grizzly and Gyrfalcon territory in the high mountains of Denali. On the boat "Discovery" for the final leg, Prince William Sound in southern Alaska offers kittiwakes, puffins, dolphins, sea otters and glaciers galore."

Betty Burridge is the editor of the Sonoma County Breeding Bird Atlas, published by Madrone Audubon in 1995. Bryant and Diane Hichwa are both past presidents of Madrone, and Diane has chaired the Madrone Conservation Committee since 1996.

Coming in March: "Adaptations of Seabirds" with ACR Biologist Gwen Heistand.

On November 17 and 18, Joyce MacLaury, Veronica Bowers, and I participated in the California Audubon Assembly in Stockton. There were over 100 participants from 28 chapters in the state, as well as members of the board of directors of California Audubon. The opening speech was given by Glenn Olson, California Audubon's new Executive Director. Glenn is an enthusiastic and extremely competent individual with many years of Audubon experience, and we are lucky to have his leadership.

Participants had a wide choice of workshops to attend: best practices for a chapter, fund raising, involvement in the political process, inspiring volunteers, and more. I was one of the presenters of a "Building Your Base" workshop, using my work with the Petaluma Wetlands Sanctuary as an example of a way to accomplish an environmental project and at the same time generate excitement and participation within a chapter.

A goal of the Assembly was to choose a conservation agenda for the year 2005. There was a large menu to choose from, but we decided to concentrate on the following issues: defense of the Federal (and California's) Endangered Species Act; legislation to protect Important Bird Areas (IBAs); the passage of a 2006 state bond issue for conservation funding; support for the California Condor recovery effort; protection of critical bird habitat in the San Francisco Bay Delta and the Salton Sea; and the search for a way to protect birds from wind power and cell phone towers.

No Audubon event would be complete without a birding opportunity, and we were lucky enough to go on a sunset field trip to view Sandhill Cranes flying in for the night at the Consumnes Preserve near Lodi. Joyce, Veronica and I would like to thank Madrone for sponsoring us at this conference, where we learned a lot and made valuable contacts with other California Audubon members. The last such statewide gathering took place four years ago; we are now hoping it will become an annual event.

Shollenberger Park, Wednesday, November 24
In morning tule fog that cleared to hazy sunshine, 24 birders led by Andy Lacasse found 65 species at Shollenberger Park in Petaluma. Notable species included Pacific Golden Plovers, Loggerhead Shrike, Green Heron, Common Yellowthroat and Sharp-shinned Hawk. "Exotics" among the birders were from Los Angeles and Auburn in California, Barrington, Illinois, and Scituate, Massachusetts.

Sacramento Valley Wildlife Refuges, December 1 and 2
Nineteen birders led by Richard Hurley toured wildlife refuges at Sacramento, Colusa and Gray Lodge. Seventy-six species were identified. As befits natural habitats, tens of thousands of birds were seen. From time to time blizzards of Snow Geese would take to the wing as if by signal, keeping us in awe, for the numbers were difficult to comprehend. We also saw Tundra Swans, Long-billed Curlews, Golden Eagles and Sandhill Cranes. The weather was clear and chilly. A good time was had by all.

Bolinas Lagoon, Thursday, December 16
Eleven Madrone Audubon members, including Leader Tom McCuller, birded Bolinas Lagoon, Stinson Beach, and the Five Brooks area of Point Reyes, finding 96 species. The weather was nearly perfect for a birdwalk, cool and sunny, with only a small negative-a moderate wind. Betty Groce spotted our most unusual bird, a Hooded Merganser at Bolinas Lagoon.

Howarth Park and Spring Lake, Wednesday, December 22
Nineteen birders joined leader Jean Tonascia to bird at Howarth and Spring Lake Parks on a sunny, pleasant day. Sixty-three species were observed, including Common Merganser, Spotted Sandpiper and Green Heron, with good views of the Osprey at both parks as well.

Bodega Bay, Thursday, December 30
With rain predicted and threatening for the day, 10 birders, led by Tom McCuller, surveyed the birds at Bodega Bay, scouting the area for the January 2 Christmas Bird Count. The group was rewarded for its optimism-the rain did not appear until 2:00 PM. They found 82 species, including two Red-necked Grebes near the harbor jetties and 15 Snowy Plovers on Duran Beach.

If you'd like to field a team this year, there is still time to do it! It's fun…and a fine way to make a contribution to Madrone Audubon. How do I start, you ask? Find a friend or two and form a team, give yourselves an interesting team name, ask family, co-workers and acquaintances to sponsor your team, pick a date in February… and enjoy a day of birding!

Eight teams have made their plans and are ready to go. All are ready to do their part in support of Madrone's traditional fundraiser, our chapter's major source of funds for conservation and education efforts. The most seasoned teams, the Gray-headed Seersuckers and the Roadrunners, have been having fun and making a valuable contribution for as many years as we can remember. The Healdsburg Herons, the Surf Scooters and the Feather Questers have been providing consistent support to the chapter for almost a decade. The Taylors of Sonoma combine Elinor Taylor's regular Cornell Feederwatch Project with Birdathon every February. The Northern Pygmy Owls, a Pee Wee Audubon team under the leadership of Claire Shurvinton, will participate again this year. A recent addition to the Birdathon Team Roster is the team of Valerie Bowers and Phyllis Schmitt (still seeking the perfect name!).

Sponsors are an integral part of each team's success and if you haven't been contacted to sponsor a team, please get in touch with any of the team members or call this year's Birdathon Coordinator, Carol Orme, at 546- 2324 to make the connection. In past years, we've had sponsors from as far away as Michigan, but our faithful members and their friends in the community help us to meet our goal every year. Why not contact a team captain and volunteer to be a sponsor? Just say, "Sign me up!"

As we go to press, this year's teams are:

¨ FEATHER QUESTERS: Diane Hichwa and Karen Nagel
¨ GRAY-HEADED SEERSUCKERS: Betty Burridge, Becky Olsen, Ken Wilson, Ian Morrison, Bill Payne and Ted Eliot
¨ HEALDSBURG HERONS: Barbara Stewart and Valerie White
¨ NORTHERN PYGMY OWLS: Claire Shurvinton and the Pee Wee team
¨ ROADRUNNERS: Betty Groce and Jean Tonascia
¨ SURF SCOOTERS: Daphne Smith, Joannie Dranginis and Andrea Bond
¨ TAYLORS OF SONOMA: Elinor and Jim Taylor
¨ (To Be Named): Veronica Bowers and Phyllis Schmidt

[From an article by Claire V. Gallagher, Ecologist, Sierra Nevada Research Center, November 22, 2004. The owl in question was brought to the Monte Rio firehouse last October and then taken to Santa Rosa Bird Rescue, where it was dead-on-arrival. It isn't known where it was first found or how it was injured. Article condensed and excerpted by Betty Burridge.]

When I was invited to visit Bird Rescue to look at a mystery owl, either a Barred Owl (Strix varia) or a spotted-barred owl hybrid, my first thoughts were of dismay because of the already well-documented Barred Owl invasion of California. I promptly jumped to some incorrect assumptions. First of all, strictly using probabilities, the bird should be Barred, and not a hybrid.

Historically, Barred Owls inhabited only eastern forests. They began to expand their range westward in the early 1900s. Recent decades have seen their southern movement along the west coast: a Barred Owl first appeared in Washington in 1973, in Oregon in 1979, and in California in the early 1980s. Barred Owls have been documented as far south as Nevada County, California (1998), and their range now almost entirely overlaps the range of the Northern Spotted Owl. Barred Owls are known for dispersing great distances (unlike their Spotted Owl relatives). In areas experiencing the very beginnings of a Barred Owl invasion, nomadic visiting owls, often called "floaters," form the front of the invasion wave (envision the Marines…).

Secondly, since a Barred Owl (nicknamed "Darth Owl") had appeared in 2003 in Muir Woods, Marin County, it would be reasonable to expect that this would be a Barred Owl here in Sonoma County. Furthermore, as rare as it would be to find pure Barred Owl, the chances of this being a spotted-barred hybrid is ridiculously low. Another wrong assumption was that the bird was most likely a dispersing juvenile whose inexperience with the wilds had scheduled it a date with disaster. The timing of the bird's expiration-late October-would be typical of a dispersing juvenile.

It goes without saying that I was quite shocked to see that the bird was, indeed, a spotted-barred owl hybrid, at least three years of age. It is most likely a hybrid of a Barred Owl and a Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina). The patterning of the bird is an intriguing mix of Spotted and Barred Owl characteristics: Overall darkness of the brown pigment suggests Spotted Owl, while the extensive barring on the head and back suggests Barred. The breast displays a complex assortment of spotted and barred patterns, with prominent streaking (a la Barred Owl) on the belly.

Spotted-barred hybrid owls are unique, both individually (no two hybrids look or sound the same) and collectively, with relatively little scientific data having been published about them. As they are rarely encountered in the field, their numbers are invariably too low for statistical analyses. We do know that hybrids typically occur in the early stages of a biological invasion-as Barred Owls infiltrate an area, the intruders will mate with Spotted Owls to give hybrid progeny. And as Barred Owl numbers increase, hybrid numbers will decrease; Barred Owls preferentially breed with their own species. A recent scientific paper (Kelly and Forsman, July 2004) compiled hybrid owl data from the Pacific Northwest and found that over a period of 26 years, only 47 hybrids have been observed. Interestingly, all confirmed spotted-barred hybrids were the result of male Spotted Owls mating with female Barred Owls; it is thought this could be because these males are as large as or larger than female Spotteds. Spotted-barred hybrids are also fertile, and can mate with Spotted or Barred Owls to create back-crossed hybrids.

The hybrid given to Bird Rescue was quite a unique and exciting bird. Any opportunity to study a hybrid, dead or alive, is greatly valued. I certainly am very grateful for the opportunity to study the plumage of the bird before it moved on to serve science as part of the Cal Academy collection.

New Local Members:
HEALDSBURG: Virginia Button. ROHNERT PARK: Jim Angelo. SANTA ROSA: Susan Moore, Wallace Nelson, Kathy Pooler. SEBASTOPOL: Mary Merrill.

New National Members:
GLEN ELLEN: Marilyn Ponting. HEALDSBURG: Ann Cress, Luther Gennert. PETALUMA: Kevin Hornick, Sharon Martin, Josephine Mazzucotelli, Robert Schmidt. ROHNERT PARK: Lisa Carmona. SANTA ROSA: Loran Biggs, Loy Bise, Jennifer Falloon, Maury Houser, Valerie & Mark Riffle, Michael Sweeney, Michael Tallman. SEBASTOPOL: William Grasse, Fred Sommer. SONOMA: Daniel Courter, Maynard Epps, Inez Johnson, Nancy McHenry.

The first Pee Wee event of 2005 will be a walk at Shollenberger led by Claire Shurvinton. This beautiful wetlands park is located just outside Petaluma and features a two-mile, flat loop trail around the main pond. We will be looking for the various marsh and water birds that are easily visible from the trail. Our bird list will be submitted as part of Madrone's annual Birdathon. Call Claire at 527-6118 to register.

DIRECTIONS TO SHOLLENBERGER PARK: From Santa Rosa, take the Highway 116 exit (Lakeville Highway) and turn left under Highway 101. Turn right off Highway 116 at the South McDowell traffic light, proceed to the City Park sign and turn right into the parking lot.

And coming in March…

Owls of Sonoma County
Saturday, March 5, 5:30 to 7:30 PM at the Bird Rescue Center

Leader Diane Hichwa is the education director at the Bird Rescue Center in Santa Rosa. She will tell us all about our local owls and then we will meet some of the Bird Rescue Center's educational birds, including "Wowl" and "Knuckles", the Great Horned Owls. This part of the program takes place inside and will go on even if it rains. Afterwards, weather permitting, we will go for a short walk around the neighborhood to look for the wild Barn owls that live nearby-or you can stay inside and make an owl mask! Dress warmly and wear shoes that can get muddy. Bring a flashlight for the walk.

Please call Claire at 527-6118 to let us know if you plan to come, and to get directions to Bird Rescue.

WANTED! Audubon Canyon Ranch Weekend Hosts
From Janet Bosshard

Hosting at ACR on Madrone's scheduled Saturdays and Sundays is a wonderful way to support this special bird preserve and represent our chapter. Among the four local Audubon Chapters that support Audubon Canyon Ranch-Marin, Golden Gate, San Mateo and Madrone-I am proud to say that we have always been a leader in volunteer participation.

Volunteers receive a brief orientation at 9:30 AM, then spend the day greeting visitors at the gate. During the day there is time to hike to the overlook to see the nesting egrets and herons, or just enjoy the preserve's patio while eating lunch. No experience required!

I need to replenish my active host list for this spring's hosting. Many in our chapter are no longer unable to participate due to age, relocation or travel plans. Please call Janet at 526-5883 for exact dates and information.

Ongoing Clean-up Needed at Mayacamas
From Curtis Kendall, Sanctuary Manager

Audubon California would like to thank Art Hofmann, Tom McCuller, and Tracy Kendall for spending December 4th cleaning up corrugated tin and trash at Ferguson Spring where the old sheep barn collapsed in the wake of the Geysers Fire.

There is a lot more cleanup and post-fire recovery work needed. We will have a volunteer workday at the Sanctuary every second Saturday of the month, beginning February 12 at 9 AM. Details such as start time, meeting location, activity, and cancellations will be announced a day or two before each workday on the Sanctuary announcement/voice-mail line, 780-0256.

Save the Date! IMBD is coming…

Madrone Audubon will be holding its first annual International Migratory Bird Day celebration on Saturday, May 14, at the Summerfield Waldorf School in Santa Rosa. Bird walks, presentations, exhibits, a swap meet and more will be part of the celebration. We are looking for volunteers to help with various aspects of the event. For more information, please contact Veronica Bowers, event chairperson, at 829-2955 or veronica@ladolcev.com.

Spring Docent Training

Information meeting for Laguna de Santa Rosa docent training. Wednesday, February 9, 7:00 PM at the Santa Rosa Central Library Forum room. Training starts March 7. For an application or further information contact Mary Abbott, 527-9277 or visit <www.lagunadesantarosa.org>

Wild Care Nature Guides take school children on nature walks at Spring Lake Park. Training begins Saturday, February 19. For information and to register for training, call (415) 453-1000, ext. 12, or visit <www.wildcaremarin.org>.

Birding Trip with John Klobas. Saturday, February 12: "In Search of Eagles," the annual trip for birds in Solano, Yolo, and Colusa counties. Call Santa Rosa Junior College Community Education at 527-4371 for information and registration.

Guided Walk in the Laguna de Santa Rosa. Saturday, February 12, at 9:15 AM. Meet behind the Youth Annex at 425 Morris Street in Sebastopol. Heavy rain cancels. For information contact Mary Abbott at 527-9277.

Lecture by John Kelly, Research Director, Audubon Canyon Ranch Cypress Grove Center. Wednesday, February 23 at 7:00 PM at Lucchesi Community Center, 320 North McDowell Boulevard, Petaluma. "The Natural History and Conservation of Heron and Egret Nesting Colonies in the San Francisco Bay Area." Sponsored by the Petaluma Wetlands Alliance.

A special bird walk at the Cardoza Ranch, on Saturday, Feb 19, from 9 AM to 1 PM will benefit the Friends of Tolay Lake Park and their outreach efforts to create a Regional Park in the beautiful and verdant Tolay Valley. Abundant bird life there includes Golden Eagles, migrant waterfowl, and a wide variety of song birds. There will be docent-led tours and a lunch of savory Tolay Chili. Donation required. For more information or to make reservations call 766-6832, e-mail Tolay@sonic.net, or visit <www.FriendsofTolay.org>. Tours can also be arranged for private groups and potential donors.

NOTE: Get a preview of this beautiful 1737-acre property on Tuesday February 8 at 7 PM at a free informational slide show by Gerald Moore, "Preserving Cardoza Ranch as Tolay Regional Park," at the Sebastopol Library.

One hundred and forty-six birders entered the field on January 2 to conduct Madrone Audubon's 38th annual Christmas Bird Count. With cold and cloudy weather turning into rain, the conditions for counting were not optimal. In addition, first reports at the post-count potluck seemed discouraging-many leaders reported that they felt that they had seen fewer birds this year. However, the numbers of most birds counted this year are very similar to last year. You can see the total results for yourself in the data table on page .

Only two areas saw a significant decrease in numbers of birds observed and many areas improved their numbers by several hundred! Last year we saw some huge flocks of Black Brant that were not present this time. You can see in the data table that we saw not one Northern Shoveler this year, but we did get an American Dipper for the first time in many years, and of course, the Harris's Sparrow is a new one for our count.

Though the birding may not have been ideal, the involvement of our participants couldn't have been better. I'd like to thank the leaders: Sean Jeane, Doug Shaw, Jean Tonascia, Dan Noreen and Mary Rooney, Bill Payne, Karen Wagner, Ruth Rudesill, Ian Morrison, Mike Parmeter, Bill Lenarz, Richard Hurley, Sylvan Eidelman, Richard Merriss and Ken Wilson, Chris Wood, Mike Heffernon, Peter Leveque, Claire Shurvinton, Dennis Beale and Pam Conley, and Carolyn Johnson. Your dedication to the count and the hard work that you put into coordinating your areas is really appreciated. Thanks also to Peter Leveque for arranging the hall, and Virginia McDonagh and those who helped her also get a big thank you for managing the much appreciated potluck.

I would also like to thank our new member Carol Benfell for her fine article in the January 3rd Press Democrat describing our annual Christmas Count and the changing patterns it tracks. Thanks also to Veronica Bowers, who announced Madrone's CBC at a Laguna Foundation meeting-I received a number of inquiries from their members eager to help with the count. I hope that those who joined our "regulars" had a positive experience and will join us again next year. The biggest thank you of all goes to the 127 counters who followed their leaders through that long day. I am so grateful to you all-there definitely would not be a count without you.

I hope to see you all again next year. The 39th Christmas Bird Count will be held on New Year's Day, 2006. If you stay up late on New Year's Eve, consider going out for some owling!

36947 Individuals
172 Species
1 Additional Form
1 Hybrid

40 Red-throated Loon
166 Pacific Loon
60 Common Loon
3 loon, sp
82 Pied-billed Grebe
77 Horned Grebe
6 Red-necked Grebe
125 Eared Grebe
115 Western Grebe
11 Clark's Grebe
13 aechmophoris, sp
12 Northern Fulmar
1 Sooty/Short-tailed Shearwater
734 Brown Pelican
190 Brandt's Cormorant
104 Double-crested Cormorant
220 Pelagic Cormorant
6 cormorant sp
62 Great Blue Heron
28 Great Egret
48 Snowy Egret
1 Green Heron
28 Black-Crowned Night-Heron
450 Turkey Vulture
2 Greater White-fronted Goose
116 Canada Goose
828 (Black) Brant
19 Wood Duck
1 Eurasian Wigeon
100 American Wigeon
223 Mallard
8 Cinnamon Teal
3 Northern Pintail
9 Green-winged Teal (American)
25 Canvasback
1 Redhead
383 Greater Scaup
40 Lesser Scaup
140 scaup, sp
486 Surf Scoter
5 White-winged Scoter
8 Black Scoter
15 scoter, sp
582 Bufflehead
68 Common Goldeneye
4 Hooded Merganser
68 Common Merganser
97 Red-breasted Merganser
307 Ruddy Duck
28 Osprey
59 White-tailed Kite
36 Northern Harrier
3 Sharp-shinned Hawk
31 Cooper's Hawk
3 accipiter, sp
56 Red-shouldered Hawk
172 Red-tailed Hawk
2 Ferruginous Hawk
3 Rough-legged Hawk
3 buteo, sp
8 Golden Eagle
169 American Kestrel
5 Merlin
7 Peregrine Falcon
1 falcon, sp
62 Wild Turkey
928 California Quail
1 Black Rail
8 Virginia Rail
1 Sora
1 Common Moorhen
446 American Coot
72 Black-bellied Plover
17 Snowy Plover
32 Semipalmated Plover
80 Killdeer
46 Black Oystercatcher
2 Greater Yellowlegs
664 Willet
1 Wandering Tattler
2 Spotted Sandpiper
13 Whimbrel
1 Long-billed Curlew
1109 Marbled Godwit
19 Ruddy Turnstone
214 Black Turnstone
27 Surfbird
431 Sanderling
165 Western Sandpiper
163 Least Sandpiper
1033 Dunlin
430 peep, sp
1 dowitcher, sp
23 Common Snipe
116 Red Phalarope
12 Bonaparte's Gull
537 Heermann's Gull
273 Mew Gull
855 Ring-billed Gull
846 California Gull
77 Herring Gull
30 Thayer's Gull
722 Western Gull
6 Western X Glaucous-winged Gull
222 Glaucous-winged Gull
898 gull, sp
35 Forster's Tern
2 tern, sp
42 Common Murre
13 Rhinoceros Auklet
39 Rock Pigeon
176 Band-tailed Pigeon
212 Mourning Dove
4 Barn Owl
1 Western Screech-Owl
8 Great Horned Owl
1 Northern Pygmy-Owl
1 Spotted Owl
108 Anna's Hummingbird
2 hummingbird, sp
26 Belted Kingfisher
80 Acorn Woodpecker
10 Red-breasted Sapsucker
41 Nuttall's Woodpecker
9 Downy Woodpecker
6 Hairy Woodpecker
21 Northern (Red-shafted) Flicker
134 Northern Flicker
8 Pileated Woodpecker
168 Black Phoebe
21 Say's Phoebe
1 Loggerhead Shrike
12 Hutton's Vireo
275 Steller's Jay
387 Western Scrub-Jay
496 American Crow
320 Common Raven
3 Tree Swallow
4 swallow, sp
489 Chestnut-backed Chickadee
21 Oak titmouse
343 Bushtit
52 Red-breasted Nuthatch
10 White-breasted Nuthatch
37 Pygmy Nuthatch
30 Brown Creeper
17 Bewick's Wren
1 House Wren
16 Winter Wren
19 Marsh Wren
1 American Dipper
36 Golden-crowned Kinglet
366 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
319 Western Bluebird
80 Hermit Thrush
2890 American Robin
181 Varied Thrush
36 Wrentit
11 Northern Mockingbird
1515 European Starling
23 American Pipit
109 Cedar Waxwing
2 Orange-crowned Warbler
16 Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler
8 Yellow-rumped (Audubon's) Warbler
721 Yellow-rumped Warbler
68 Townsend's Warbler
4 Common Yellowthroat
90 Spotted Towhee
378 California Towhee
11 Savannah Sparrow
102 Fox Sparrow
194 Song Sparrow
1 Lincoln's Sparrow
7 White-throated Sparrow
1 Harris's Sparrow
915 White-crowned Sparrow
1275 Golden-crowned Sparrow
16 sparrow, sp
2003 Dark-eyed (Oregon) Junco
812 Red-winged Blackbird
15 Tricolored Blackbird
308 Western Meadowlark
1935 Brewer's Blackbird
4 Brown-headed Cowbird
130 blackbird, sp
120 Purple Finch
337 House Finch
37 Red Crossbill
464 Pine Siskin
67 Lesser Goldfinch
36 American Goldfinch
75 goldfinch, sp
234 House Sparrow

Tundra Swan 11/13-14 Bodega Farm pond, Highway 12 DA, TE, LH
Tundra Swan (immature) 11/28 Bodega Harbor EH, PP
Greater White-fronted Goose (3) 11/6 Bridgehaven AW, RROS
Greater White-fronted Goose (2) 11/7 Ramal Road Preserve AW
Greater White-fronted Goose (2) 11/11 Duncans Mills BDP
Snow Goose 12/6 Bodega farm pond AW
Harlequin Duck (1) 11/4 Fort Ross KA, GM
White-winged Scoter (1) 11/6 Duncan's Landing BDP
White-winged Scoter (1) 1/2 Fly-by; Bodega Head, southbound DN
Black Scoter (1) 11/6 Duncan's Landing BDP
Wood Duck (1) 11/13 Bodega Farm pond DA, TE
Hooded Merganser (4) 11/13 Carmody Road pond DA, TE
Buller's Shearwater (3+) 10/16 Off Bodega Head DN, AW, RROS
Northern Fulmar (10+) 1/2 Off Bodega Head DN, BDP
Red-necked Grebe (2) 11/2 Bodega Harbor entrance jetties BDP, TE
Red-necked Grebe (1) 1/2 Off Bodega Head DN, BDP
Merlin 11/7 Hudemann Slough DA, BDP
Merlin 11/26 Middle Road LB, JH
Prairie Falcon 11/14 Hudemann Slough BDP
Prairie Falcon 11/21 Estero Road LB, JH
Peregrine Falcon 11/11 Doran Park BDP
Bald Eagle 10/29 Spring Lake Park LB
Golden Eagle (2-3) 11/7 Ramal Road DA, BDP
Ferruginous Hawk (dark morph) 11/7 Ramal Road DA, BDP
Ferruginous Hawk (2) 11/6 Bridgehaven BDP
Ferruginous Hawk 11/7-21 Estero Road LB, JH
Ferruginous Hawk 12/3 East Railroad Avenue, Penngrove BO
Clapper Rail 11/14 Buchli Station Road, Napa County BDP
Clapper Rail 12/23 Shollenberger Park DN
Black Rail (3) 12/23 Shollenberger Park DN
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (1) 11/7 Hudemann Slough DA, BDP
Red Knot (6) 11/6 Doran Park LH
Lesser Yellowlegs (1) 11/5 Shollenberger Park BD
Lesser Yellowlegs (1) 11/7 Hudemann Slough BDP, DA
Red Phalarope (2-3) 11/4-5 Doran Park BDP, LH
Heermann's Gull (125) 10/24 Campbell Cove BDP
Heermann's Gull (350+) 1/2 Doran jetties and Bodega Head RS, BDP, DN
Brown Pelican (100+) 1/2 Doran jetties and Bodega Head RS, BDP, DN
Pigeon Guillemot (3) 11/6 Between Doran jetties BDP, LH
Long-eared Owl (1) 10/27 Bodega Marine Lab entrance trees DH, M. Ob.
Spotted Owl 10/15 Owl Canyon RS
Spotted Owl (same as above?) 10/22 Bodega Marine Lab entrance KM, DHa
Spotted X Barred Owl hybrid 10/28 Russian River area (?) * JW, et al.
Tropical Kingbird (2) 10/2 Rail ponds KM, DH
Tropical Kingbird (1) 11/6 Doran Park MB
Tree Swallow (30+) 11/14 Shollenberger Park LH
Loggerhead Shrike 12/3 East Railroad Avenue, Penngrove BO
Nashville Warbler 11/4 Salmon Creek mouth AW, TE, BDP
Nashville Warbler 11/4 Salmon Creek overlook BDP
Chipping Sparrow 11/4 Bridgehaven KA, GM
Swamp Sparrow 11/14 Shollenberger Park PC, LH
White-throated Sparrow 11/9 Kenwood feeder RR
White-throated Sparrow 11/24 Campbell Cove LB
White-throated Sparrow (2) 12/19 Laguna de Santa Rosa, Rodota path, singing DN
White-throated Sparrow 12/6 Sonoma KM
White-throated Sparrow 11/11 Bloomfield MJ
Lapland Longspur (heard only) 11/14 Hudemann Slough BDP
Pine Siskin (Throughout) Many areas M. Ob.
Evening Grosbeak 10/30 Napa residence BDP

* Brought in dead to Bird Rescue Center; had characteristics of both species.

CONTRIBUTORS: Ken Ackerman, Dick Ashford, Larry Broderick, Michelle Brodie, Peter Colasanti, Bob Dyer, James Duxbury, Ted Eliot, Deyea Harper, Jesse House, Lisa Hug, Elmarie Hutchinson, Marianne Jacobs, Gloria Markowitz, Kathy Mugele, Dan Nelson, Becky Olsen, Phil Persons, Benjamin D. Parmeter, Redwood Region Ornithological Society, Ruth Rudesill, Rich Stallcup, Lawrence Taylor, Alan Wight, and Jon Winter.

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