Author Archives: Jeanne Jackson

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RCLC would like to have you enter your photos of Mill Bend in their photo contest. Mill Bend includes the estuary of the Gualala River and extends up river to the boundary with Gualala Arts. RCLC has extended the final date for submission to Sept. 6th. You can find all the details here: https://www.rclc.org/8003-2/

Here's a photo Rozann Grunig took of Rick and me kayaking on the Gualala River some years ago. Rozann, you could have a winner here!

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

Foggy this morning, clear and warm this afternoon, a lovely late summer day.

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Great Blue Herons are so very graceful. Bill photographed this Heron in stride.

GB Herons fish for food, using their beak to strike, lightning fast! They also love to catch gophers and other rodents.

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

The fog rolled in overnight, bringing the temps way down. The fog also chased the smoke away, thank goodness.

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Michelle Melio recently found this Anna's Hummingbird feeding on Hedge Nettle.

I asked Mary Sue Ittner to take a look at the photo of the native wildflower. She wrote, "It looks like Stachys chamissonis, Chamisso's Hedge Nettle, Coastal Hedge Nettle or Bog Hedge Nettle. I like the last common name as you usually see it growing in very wet spots and in this dry year that would explain why it is still in flower and looking so well when the rigid hedge nettle that is common here is dried up in a lot of places."

Anna's Hummingbirds are year-round residents of the Mendonoma Coast. Thanks to Michelle for allowing me to share her photo with you here.

It's warm, 80+ degrees, and unfortunately smoky. And there is no wind to whisk the smoke away, though perhaps by tomorrow the northwesterly winds will return.

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Rich Trissel photographed this Cooper's Hawk adult with two fledglings through a scope. What a treat it is to see this family.

Cooper's Hawks are known for their flying abilities. They hunt smaller birds. They are mostly quiet but they do have a unique cak-cak-cak call which you can hear at this link to the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Coopers_Hawk/sounds

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

Foggy until the early afternoon today.

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Janet Pierucci noticed this beautiful sight late one afternoon. She dubbed them Angel Wings.

Larry Riddle surmises these are altocumulus clouds. Or Angel Wings!

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

There is a high fog on the immediate coast. Temps are mild and there is no wind. A whale spout was seen this morning off Gualala in the kelp beds, probably one of the resident Gray Whales.