*** Species Summary: - Vaux's Swift (1 report) - Pacific Golden-Plover (1 report) - Mountain Plover (1 report) - Least Bittern (1 report) - Brewer's Sparrow (1

Thank you very much to everyone who replied with thoughts on the ID of this bird. It wasn't unanimous, but the opinions leaned strongly toward Brewer's Sparrow. Besides it being the more likely

I walked from Goleta Beach to the UCSB Lot 6 stairs and a little beyond around midday, today. Not only was there no sign of either Curlew Sandpiper or Pacific Golden-Plover, but most of the beach

This morning we spent a fair while wandering around the estuary mouth and beach, but in the end we located the Mountain Plover with the Snowy Plover flock on the beach north of the estuary mouth where

In Miguelito Park, Lompoc. The male Chestnut-sided Warbler has a lot of chestnut on the sides, and a bright crown. It looks more like an adult male, than a 1st fall male. It is busy moving

Greetings Birders, It’s been really exciting to seepeople enjoying the Gray Catbird at the Garden, but I wanted to share somereminders and site-specific etiquette for your consideration.

A few people have asked about finding the Rocky Nook GH Junco found 2 days ago by Adam S. I saw only a half dozen or so Juncos total, so finding the "flock" (which includes 1-2 Titmice, +/-1

I saw a Spizella sparrow along Santa Barbara Canyon Road near Ventucopa today. I initially entered it in eBird as a Brewer’s Sparrow, but after looking at photos I’m no longer sure. According to

*** Species Summary: - Costa's Hummingbird (1 report) - Pacific Golden-Plover (4 reports) - Mountain Plover (2 reports) - Curlew Sandpiper (2 reports) - Short-billed Dowitcher (2 reports) - Tropical

I’m posting this for Mary Gosselin. She saw a male AmRe at Bella Vista around 2 pm today. She watched it for about 20 minutes, mostly in the olives in the northeast corner near where the path forks.

I was going to send an account of my loop around the NCOS around midday today anyway, so I will add my thoughts here. I've linked my full checklist below, but the highlights include a flock of several

We decided to see what was going on at North Campus Open Space, and found that the long grass on Audubon Hill has been knocked down. So we managed to get a glimpse of the Burrowing Owl, our first

Pictures are here Time for Gray-headed vs Pink-sided x Gray-headed. May the best junco win. -- Bradley R. Hacker Distinguished Professor of GeologyDept of Earth Science and Earth

Thanks to you, Peter, I was also able to get some shots of the Mountain Plover this morning on the north bank of the river, west of the trestle at Ocean Park. In addition -- Snowy Plovers are all

A Mountain Plover was seen this AM at Ocean Park, showing well along N edge of estuary W of the trestle. A few Bonaparte's Gulls and a nice mix of the expected Plovers, Sandpipers, Dowitchers and

I just got some — what should be excellent – pictures Bradley R. Hacker hacker.faculty.geol.ucsb.edu www.petrochronology.com -- Good birding, Bradley Hacker Goleta

I have some mediocore digibinned photos that I haven’t yet had a chance to upload to the checklist—i’ll get to it sometime later today. Adam Searcy Santa Barbara, CA Serpophaga@...

It would be great if someone could get a photo of this junco. At this point, it might be here for the winter. In eBird there are several hybrid options available so if this does involve an intergrade

I was there yesterday, Thursday, 1:30-2:45 and today, Friday, 4:15-5:55, but failed to detect a Mourning Warbler. Had a brief pulse of the various expected warblers on both days, with good looks at

I stopped for a midday snack at Rocky Nook Park and saw a very attractive GRAY-HEADED JUNCO mingling with the normal Junco flock just upstream of the lowest parking area. This bird may have some