During a Mendocino Rotary Club presentation today about the multi-year effort to count and save our shorebirds, Mendocino Coast Audubon Society Volunteer Becky Bowen and State Parks Environmental Scientist Angela Liebenberg noted that several Hudsonian Godwits for some unknown reason have strayed thousands of miles off course and landed in Fort Bragg. Four were spotted at Glass Beach and individual birds were seen at different times the past week on Ten Mile Beach. “These birds live on Hudson Bay and migrate down the middle of the U.S., but they don’t come here,” Bowen noted. The news is spreading fast among serious birders who are flocking here from all over the Bay Area and Sacramento to catch sight of the wayward Wits. Fort Bragg is also a playground and nesting spot for the rare (and getting rarer) Snowy Plover (24 spotted this year  hanging out, but none nesting so far).