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Michael Reinhart recently got this great photo of a Spotted Towhee singing.

Can you hear it? Maybe this will help. Here's a link to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Spotted_Towhee/sounds

Here's what Cornell says about this bird's call: "It lasts about 1.5 seconds. The song starts with one or two (up to eight) short introductory notes and then a fast trill that can sound like a taut rubber band being plucked, or a piece of paper stuck into a fan. Some Spotted Towhee songs have just the trill phrase only."

Thanks to Mike for allowing me to share his photo with you here.

It's warm and breezy today, with a big fog bank lurking over the ocean. Yes, we did have an earthquake on Wednesday morning. It was fairly mild here - two seconds of shaking. No damage except to our nerves!

 

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Last Saturday, young Oly Perket saw fire in the blue sky. She wrote, “This was taken when Mom [Madeline Perket] and I were driving to Sebastopol.”

Oly photographed a beautiful atmospheric phenomenon called a circumhorizontal arc. They are often called fire rainbows, except they aren’t actual rainbows.  They are ice halos created when sunlight passes through high-altitude cirrus clouds.

Thanks to Oly for allowing me to share her photo with you here.

Foggy morning, sunny afternoon with temps in the 60's. It's the last day of spring!

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Kelly McLaughlin wrote, “I was heading south to Anchor Bay when I caught a glimpse of what I thought might be an eagle. So I turned the car around to go back and look…hoping I wouldn’t scare it off. I was impressed that it stuck around and then I realized it was eating!  This regal bird was dining on the west side of Highway One, about midway between Iverson and Signal Port Creek Rd.”

I think this might be the female Bald Eagle from the Gualala River area, and it looks like she caught a Cormorant for her meal.

Thanks to Kelly for allowing me to share her photos with you here.

We're having a foggy day here on the Mendonoma Coast.

 

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There is an old Bottle Brush Tree at one of the houses at Mill Bend and hummingbirds love to feed on its nectar. Recently Rozanne Rapozo photographed one.

And here's another photo taken by Rozanne, where the Allen's is checking out a possible blossom.

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To hear the calls of this hummingbird, here is a link to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Allens_Hummingbird/sounds

Thanks to Rozanne for allowing me to share her photos with you here.

It's downright hot this afternoon - well, hot for the Mendonoma Coast! It's reached into the 80's at Rick's and my place in Anchor Bay.

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Michael Coustier wrote, "I recently did an impromptu bird walk with Karen Wilkinson and others around Sea Ranch looking for some nesting birds. We managed to find a nesting Western Gull, Black Oystercatcher, Cliff Swallows and Pelagic Cormorants.  We even had a special visitor from a Bald Eagle."

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Thanks to Michael for allowing me to share his photo with you here.

It's been cloudy today, after a beautiful and sunny day on Sunday. There is a chance of rain tonight. June rain would be a blessing.