The Bohnett Park Warbling Vireo was seen on count day, despite being missed on my last four visits to the park--phew! A Swamp Sparrow was fairly easily observed in tules, and on the ground, from the C

I could not find the Elings Park Sage Thrasher today, and I will be unable to look for it for the next couple of days. If you get a chance to go to the park, please post results, positive or negative.

The Elings Park thrasher was easily seen late this afternoon--until 4:45--in the previously described location. It was feeding voraciously, which makes me fear it's about to scarper... . Let's hope no

This morning there was a Sage Thrasher at Elings Park, Santa Barbara, between where the paragliders take off and the green water tank. It comes out onto the ground with a flock of White-crowned Sparro

At 11:20 I saw one Summer Tanager across from Vieja Valley School, in the same fruiting tree where there were three tanagers yesterday. No oriole today. I walked up to Vieja Drive and turned left. Her

Opposite the entrance to Vieja Valley School on Nogal Drive, Santa Barbara, are a couple of trees loaded with reddish-purple fruit. As I approached this area, I briefly saw a distant green wingbarless

This morning I took a walk around the Wilcox property. It was pretty quiet bird wise, apart from a Peregrine eating prey in a euc on the bluffs. I didn't pay much attention to the prey until I got hom

Three White Pelicans flew in to Lake Los Carneros at 2:50 p.m. They circled for a long time, so long that I lost patience with them and didn't see if they landed. One apparent Thayer's Gull at the dam

Late this afternoon there was a Tennessee Warbler in a bottlebrush tree in front of 6138 Manzanillo Drive, which is off La Goleta (off N. Fairview). Hugh Ranson Santa Barbara

In the gull flock at Lake Los Carneros at 12:30 were both a first-cycle Thayer's and a first-cycle Herring Gull, plus a couple of gulls whose parentage is a puzzle. Hugh Ranson Santa Barbara

I poked around the lower Riviera of Santa Barbara this morning. Not much to report. Best bird was a Nashville Warbler in a bottle brush just east of Marymount School. Orpet Park, Franceschi Park, and

The Bohnett Park Warbling Vireo has returned for its 4th winter. At noon it was easily seen in willows at the top of the steps that lead down into the park at the San Andres entrance. The park was ver

The apparent Shoveler/Cinnamon Teal hybrid that wintered at Lake Los Carneros last year has returned. Seen at the dam this afternoon. Photo here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zonetail/with/3101549838

This afternoon there were three Tropical Kingbirds at the former Ocean Meadows Golf Course near where the path crosses the swale, a few hundred yards west of the club house. Two were in the same tree,

I went out yesterday, 10/17/16, to Scorpion Anchorage. It was very windy and passerines were difficult to see. Migrant numbers seemed to be very low; no spizellas, no Townsend's Warblers, only 10 or s

The Elings Park Clay-colored Sparrow continues this morning, 10/16. Today it was a little to the southeast of the stone bench and was feeding by itself on the ground near the grey water (?) tank. Phot

There's a Clay-colored Sparrow at Elings Park feeding in fennel close to the stone bench near where the paragliders take off. It was loosely associating with a small group of Savannah Sparrows. Hugh R

One at lunchtime today, at the SW corner at the lake (Lake Los Carneros in Goleta). White-faced Ibis at the north end. Hugh Ranson Santa Barbara

This morning the Swamp Sparrow showed fleetingly by the bridge, and there was a MacGillivray's Warbler nearby being harassed by a yellowthroat. Also a Warbling Vireo. Brad Hacker took a photo of what

One Pectoral Sandpiper mid way along the north shore this afternoon. There is mud exposed all along the north shoreline. There were also a handful of dowitchers, and Western and Least Sandpipers. No k