Hi All: Today Florence Sanchez and I did a little birding in Carpinteria. We looked unsuccessfully for the Orchard Oriole at Santa Monica Creek, entering at the end of El Caro. Then we stopped at Lake

Hi Folks: Guess what? There are at least 3 individual gulls near the dam area at Lake Los Carneros that might be candidates for Thayer’s Gull, & my list posted yesterday said that I had a Thayer’s/Ice

Hi All: Today I got out birding with Libby Patten and Adrian O’Loghlen. We walked the circumference of the lake, and when we got to the area by the dam, I saw a gull that might be good for Thayer’s, s

Hi All: Got out this morning with Libby on this gorgeous day, birded the Music Academy thoroughly, including the tipu trees there: nothing to report. (seriously) As of yesterday, the Yellow Warbler fo

Hi All: Oooops. Looks like I blew off a really interesting leucistic Common Yellowthroat. To be perfectly honest, I never really saw this bird clearly, so didn’t put it on my list. However, Marilyn sa

Hi Birders: Marilyn Harding & I walked from the parking lot at the Bird Refuge to the southwest corner to look for Mark Holmgren’s Northern Waterthrush seen yesterday. No luck today, but we did see th

Hi All: Libby Patten and I got out to do some birding at Stow Grove Park, where I got my first really good look at the Northern (“Ruber”) subspecies of the Red-breasted Sapsucker. Typically, we see th

Hi All: Got out birding some Carpinteria areas on a very warm morning yesterday. Joined by Marilyn Harding, and eventually by Libby Patten, we first hit the police station tamarisk row in Carp. Still

Hi All: Libby, Marilyn, and I ran into Barb Millett, and George and Gage, and between us we think we saw most of the birds there! Thanks to Gage for help with the continuing TWO Red Knots, decidedly n

Hi All: Marilyn Harding & I went out to see if we could find the Solitary Sandpiper seen yesterday by John Callender at Lake Jocelyn. No luck. Pond still has lots of water & a few Red-necked Phalarope

Hi All: This morning at about 10:45 a.m., the Least Bittern was sunning itself in the reeds on the north side of the southwest arm that’s near the dam. Sorry for the late post. I couldn’t connect to s

Just now at South West arm of lake los Carneros near Dam. Joan Lentz

Hi All: Just wanted to give an update about the presence or I should say absence of any kind of Tropical Kingbird during my brief chase down there this morning. As you heard from Brad Schram, an out-o

I agree totally! What would we do without the great team of birders here in SBA and on eBird? We are so lucky, because so many counties don’t have this kind of dedicated, excellent support in their bi

Hi All: Wow! I guess fall isn’t over, although this may be a winterer, if we’re lucky. Gorgeous adult male bird, & I ran inside to get camera, as I came back out, it was flying away to the north. It w

Message from Brad Hines: just saw it now. Has photos. Don’t know anything more! Joan Lentz

Hi All: This morning Mark Holmgren and I sort of “discovered” a place that might be productive for birds as we go into the winter season and begin to think about our CBCs and good places to bird. We w

Hi All: Today Larry Ballard and I birded Carp Creek for over 2 hours without finding the Blue-winged Warbler. However, we ran into John and Ann Doty, who said they’d seen a good candidate for the bird

Hi All: I was able to make contact with Jim Moore, who’s fiancée owns a condo on Carp Crk, and he reports that he searched the creekbed much of the morning without any luck, but sometime in mid-aftern

Hi All: Please, if you happen to have positive or negative information about the presence of the Blue-winged Warbler at Carpinteria Creek, would you mind continuing to post? I have an out-of-towner fr