The Nature Conservancy is looking for experienced birders to look for golden eagles from ridge tops between June 4th and 10th. We just need people who can...
Hi all, I picked up a nestling/almost fledgling Western screech owl chick this afternoon from the SB Botanic Gardens. Visitors had found it on the ground ...
All: This evening I walked 7/8ths of the way out to Mussel Rock south of Guadalupe Beach. There were two large rafts of Surf Scoters. I tried hard to make...
All: At 10.30 today, I found a Bank Swallow feeding by the first pull-out at Devereux in a flock of Cliff Swallows. Earlier I spent about an hour scoping the...
This morning a second Least Bittern was on the south side of the island at Lake Los Carneros. Unlike the Least Bittern that's been calling near the footbridge...
Hi all: There was a Yellow-billed Magpie in Santa Barbara this afternoon, seen in the San Roque neighborhood near the corner of Calle Palo Colorado and Calle...
Birds of Cachuma Lake Monday May 28 – Sunday June 3, 2007 Hi Folks, • Highlights this week include a sighting of 7 COMMON MERGANSER chicks, three on mom's...
Dual county update: Sunday 03 June 2007 3:30pm onward: An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER called upcreek, once... Update from our last visit: PAC- SLOPE pair feeding 3...
About 2pm Sunday 03 June 2007, we saw a couple thousand SHEARWATERS, a half mile off-shore from the Breakwater at Santa Barbara Harbor; we were not able to ID...
This was posted on CALBIRDS so I'm spreading the word on the upcoming Horned Puffin Count in CA and the opportunity to document this event. ______________ ...
All: Saturday, June 2, 2007 Brad Schram saw a(n) Xantus's Murrelet at Guadalupe Beach. Today I received my Birding magazine and they have an interesting...
Please join Santa Barbara Audubon Society for our next bird walk: Friday, June 8, 2007, 8:30am -10:30am: Atascadero Creek Target Birds: Water Birds, song...
I spent 15 minutes or so at Haskell's Beach in Goleta at lunch time today, hoping to find an alcid or two. Nothing doing in that department, but there were...
All, In answer to Hugh's question, Pt. Sal road remains closed from the end of Brown Rd. (Corralitos Canyon) just before the dirt road ascends Pt. Sal Ridge....
A flock of 50+ noisy Elegant Terns showed up at Goleta Beach this morning. This is the first time that I've seen Elegant Terns in the area since late December....
Today, June 5th, there was a single male Tricolored Blackbird on the southside of Lompoc. It was on the wires above where the blackberry bushes were in the...
Today I hiked the bluffs of campus point and the lagoon island, hoping for a stray puffin, but to no avail. However, at noontime, there were hundreds of...
Jamie Chavez just called with a sighting of a really odd gull at Gaviota State Beach at 5:00 p.m. Tuesday June 5, 2007. He describes it as a slim intermediate...
In the 25 years we have lived on Vista Madera (Modoc/Las Positas area) and maintained upwards of 13 feeding stations, a birdbath and a fountain, today is the...
Group, As Mark posted, I stopped by Gaviota State Beach late this afternoon on my way home from work in Ventura. The wind was howling and I almost didn't stop...
All: Could this be a the Asian taimyrensis or birulai gull? In a description of tamyrensis from Birds of Korea: Orangey-yellow bill with gonys spot bleeding up...
This looks like a California Gull, with the only atypical thing being the lack of black on the bill.? The mantle shade is the same as the other California...
I concur with David. I've seen some really bright billed (but with hint of black present, but with more red than expected), and bright yellow-legged adult...
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Mark Holmgren
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Jun 6, 2007 7:02 pm
Surveys of lower Atascadero Creek over a 10-year period show that this is the only local creek capable of supporting locally rare riparian breeding species,...
Mark: Any sign of Chestnut-backed Chickadees? Nick ________________________________ From: sbcobirding@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sbcobirding@yahoogroups.com] On...
Okay, California Gull is the consensus. It didn't look like that to me at the time but I can see it now. Like a birder friend once told me many years ago, ...
All: This evening June 6, 2007 I saw and heard 5 Common Terns at the Santa Maria River mouth. They had red bills were much smaller than the one Caspian Tern...
S.B. Birders -- Two were at the Andree Clark Bird Refuge this morning, working the tules and willows in the northwest corner. Also present were 3-4 Ash- ...
