S.B. Birders: Yesterday, Mark Billings, Wes Fritz and I went on a birding adventure around the county to record as many species as possible in a 24-hour period, beginning at midnight on 25 April. We f

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Hi Folks, On 3 May, Oscar Johnson, Dave Compton, and I did a Santa Barbara County Big Day. In the sometimes howling wind we came up with 175 species in 17 hours, 35 min and 322 miles driving. This is

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S.B. Birders -- Last night (4/27) Hugh Ranson, John Storrer and I ended a fantastic 20 hours of birding, big-day style, where we counted a total of 190 species. There were really no major rarity stand

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Hi folks, Yesterday, Monday, 25 September, Mark Holmgren, Peter Gaede, and I did a fall Big Day for the PRBO Bird-A-Thon. We met at 2am and birded all over Santa Barbara County, until 10pm. The final

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Yesterday, Wes Fritz, Mark Holmgren, and I did a Big Day for the Pt Reyes Bird Observatory Bird-A-Thon, and we had a few birds of interest along the way: First off, we saw both the RUFF and at least o

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S.B. Birders: Last Friday, April 29, Wes Fritz, Marshall Iliff and I went out for a big day in the County that lasted about 22 hours. We started the day with Cackling Goose in Santa Maria, and birded

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S.B. Birders - Wes Fritz and I did our third annual Santa Barbara County spring Big Day yesterday (5/1), and this year we were joined by Jeff Davis and Marshall Iliff. It was a long and exciting day,

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Peter Gaede, Brad Hines, Mark Holmgren, and I did a Big Day in Santa Barbara Count yesterday for the Point Reyes Bird Observatory Bird-a-Thon. After 18 hours of driving, jumping in and out of the car,

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SB Cobirders, Today from Goleta Point, Wes and I counted around 500 Sooty Shearwaters migrating north between 4-5pm. Loon migration overall appears to be tapering off, but a few Red-throateds are stil

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For those who are interested, the official tally for the Holmgren-Kelly-Weyburne-Compton big day yesterday is 161. Not bad considering there was little migration, and we busted on mountain birds. To g

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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 tallied. Refugio State Beach campground: one LU

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