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Jamie M Chavez
jcwings@...
Oct 2, 2000 4:45 am
Hello all, I saw a slightly early Ferruginous Hawk today over Santa Maria. This is my first for fall this year. Has anyone else seen a FEHA yet? Jamie Chavez ...
1411
Dave Compton
davcompton@...
Oct 2, 2000 6:57 am
Mark Holmgren, Grant Weyburne, Brad Hines, and I did a Big Day in Santa Barbara County today and here are some of the highlights from the 158 species we...
1412
Mark Holmgren
holmgren@...
Oct 2, 2000 2:34 pm
This Big Day was great fun. I most enjoyed the chance to share the perspectives of these three extraordinary observers. I learned a lot from these guys. We...
1413
kbridgers
kbridgers@...
Oct 2, 2000 6:38 pm
This morning, after doing the riparian area behind Costco and the willows at Devereux, I headed over to LLC. I had a male American Redstart in the oaks NORTH...
1414
Patrick McNulty
mcnulty-p@...
Oct 2, 2000 10:34 pm
There was a Cassin's Finch at the Bridge over the wetlands behind the Old Swimming Pool on the UCSB campus today at lunchtime. It moved a couple of times...
1415
georger244@...
Oct 2, 2000 11:51 pm
Hi All: Maxine and I went to Figueroa Mountain this morning, arriving about 7:30 am. No we did not see the White-Headed Woodpecker seen yesterday by the Big...
1416
georger244@...
Oct 3, 2000 12:15 am
Hi All .. An owl called a few times around 8:45 am this morning in the area of Pino Alto Campground on Figueroa Mountain. We could not pin down exactly where...
1417
georger244@...
Oct 3, 2000 12:19 am
Hi again all ...of course I meant PYGMY not Brown-headed Nuthatches. That's my bad eastern upbringing coming through again. Bird on...g...
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Guy Tingos
GTingos@...
Oct 3, 2000 3:51 am
Rebecca and I did a quick trip to the peak after work Monday and had a small group of Pygmy Nuthatches and Mountain Chickadees near the road, and one Steller's...
1419
thelff@...
Oct 3, 2000 6:11 pm
The Eastern Kingbird appeared briefly again at 6:30pm last night on the telephone wires just before the first turnout at Devereux Slough. At Lake Los Carneros...
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Joe Seals
gardenguru@...
Oct 3, 2000 7:20 pm
I hope no one minds a couple of book "reviews". I just received my copies of "Birds of North America; a Kaufman Focus Guide" and "Common Dragonflies of ...
1421
JHcynwren@...
Oct 3, 2000 7:38 pm
Hi, There is a grove of pines up on a hill on the left side of E. Camino Cielo about 1.5 miles east of Hwy. 154. This morning there were both Pygmy Nuts, and...
1422
beuretp@...
Oct 3, 2000 8:00 pm
Tues 3 Oct 1pm saw a Clarks nutcracker thru the scope well from our deck on the Mesa, it had flown up Honda Canyon between us & TV hill and landed on tall...
1423
jayres37@...
Oct 3, 2000 8:32 pm
Corrine Ardoin and I checked out the SMR estuary, this morning in prep for Saturday's CC Birding Rally. Highlights: jaeger sp. Black-vented Shearwaters close...
1424
kbridgers
kbridgers@...
Oct 3, 2000 9:40 pm
This afternoon I made a brief stop at Refugio. I had both a Lucy's and a Virginia's in the fennel on the west side of the riparian just inside the campground...
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Patrick McNulty
mcnulty-p@...
Oct 3, 2000 10:05 pm
Well, this is not a very satisfactory report, but I feel I've got to make it anyway. At the end of lunch hour today, at the wetlands behind the Old Pool at...
1426
tnbpope@...
Oct 4, 2000 12:19 am
Also both books are available locally at Wild Birds Unlimited, Marigold Center, Tank Farm and Broad, San Luis Obispo. Ted Pope...
1427
JHcynwren@...
Oct 4, 2000 1:42 am
Hello, The Kingbird flew into the top of a slender euc at the south east corner of Ocean Meadows Golf Course at 5:45 this evening. It flew in from married ...
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Jamie M Chavez
jcwings@...
Oct 4, 2000 2:28 am
Hello, Somehow I managed to refind the first fall male BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER in Santa Maria's Waller Park. We're talking a real needle in a hay stack here....
1429
hugh ranson
urrf@...
Oct 4, 2000 3:50 am
Techno-Birders, There's a N. Waterthrush in Montecito on a creek I'm embarrassed to say I've forgotten the name of. Get off 101 at the Sheffield exit, turn...
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Mark Holmgren
holmgren@...
Oct 4, 2000 4:28 pm
Dave Hubbard saw a curious bird on the beach in western Isla Vista today which he feels is one of these runt Whimbrels. Do any of you know the literature...
1431
Dave Compton
davcompton@...
Oct 4, 2000 5:44 pm
At about 9 this morning, 27+ Clark's Nutcrackers were flying west from the area of La Cumbre Peak. I was at the grove of pines about a half mile west of the...
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hugh ranson
urrf@...
Oct 4, 2000 9:29 pm
At lunchtime today there was a female American Redstart in the oaks in the parking lot at Crane School on San Leandro Lane in Montecito. I looked with no...
1433
kbridgers
kbridgers@...
Oct 4, 2000 11:31 pm
Robb Hamilton was birding Goleta this afternoon and found the following: In the lerpy eucs that border La Patera (on the far east side of the LLC property), a...
1434
Brad Schram
gonebrdn@...
Oct 4, 2000 11:37 pm
SB Birders: Given the Pinyon Jays in northwestern Ventura county in Lockwood Valley and environs, I decided to go up Santa Barbara Canyon and Dry Canyon into...
1435
georger244@...
Oct 5, 2000 12:38 am
Looked twice on Romero Creek in Montecito this morning (10/4) for Hugh's Northern Waterthrush w/o success. Bird on all...George...
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Dave Compton
davcompton@...
Oct 5, 2000 2:05 am
I just spoke with Matt Curto, one of the captains of the Condor, and he authorized me to post a message about a deep water pelagic trip he has organized out of...
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Guy Tingos
GTingos@...
Oct 5, 2000 4:49 pm
The Eastern Kingbird showed up for its regular evening performance at the north end of Devereux Slough last night. Rebecca found the bird in a eucalyptus tree...
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kbridgers
kbridgers@...
Oct 5, 2000 7:42 pm
Refugio still has one Lucy's, obviously a long-term camper. Lots of birds, but mostly yellow-rumps. El Cap is birdy, but mostly yellow-rumps. As you face...
