Hi All: I have to say it’s really weird without having ebird up and running for a couple days. I see now what a part of our birding lives it has become, and I do not want to go back to the “good ole d

Hi All: David Nimmons has a male Broad-billed Hummingbird coming to his feeders in Montecito. Please let him know if you are interested in a socially distanced, masked visit to his home. He can be rea

Hi All: I wanted to share with you the great feeling I had of cooperation and respect when I chased the MOURNING WARBLER, which was well seen and photographed today at the entrance to the Log Me In in

Hi All: This morning, Marilyn Harding, Ron Hirst, and I met at the confluence of Park Ln., Bella Vista, and Mariposa, all in the foothills of Montecito. This is the location mentioned previously where

Hi All: Around noon today, Marilyn and I decided to check out the hawk watch site. Since there were lots of workers parked along the wall, and no shade was available, we drove to the next promontory w

Hi All: Today, I went w/ Florence Sanchez to check out the Tipu trees at this business park off Hollister Ave. in Goleta. We met a number of other birders there, including Adrian O’Laughlin who refoun

Hi All: Today I went with Marilyn Harding and Carol Goodell up to the hawk watch site on Bella Vista. Conditions were perfect, clear with slight north/northwest breeze. We were soon joined by Jay and

Hi All: Anyone who’s noticing fall migration is also looking at the weather, and perhaps that north wind has blown recent migrants into town? I’m seeing a definite turn-over at my pond, especially tod

Congrats to all! Nice photo too!

Hi All: Today Marilyn Harding and I were looking for cool places to bird. We stopped at Carp Creek first and did a count from the Eighth Street bridge. Birds not as numerous there today as Sept. 3, wh

Hi All: My book is live on Amazon at last! And Chaucer’s should have it soon! Be sure to choose the COLOR edition if you can! The black-and-white is cheaper, but it didn’t turn out as well. You will f

Hi All: Florence Sanchez and I got out for a minute this morning. At Mission Creek outflow on East Beach, we counted a flock of 680 Elegant Terns, at least 1/3 of which were juveniles. They are joinin

Hi All: Marilyn Harding and I got out for some birding in the fog—initially—then ran into warm sunshine later in the noon hour at “the seep” at the end of Coronado. Goleta Beach continues to have grea

Hi All: Seeing Mark Holmgren’s list from this location, I was inspired to have a look. Marilyn Harding was with me. The large shorebirds are there! We had 40 Long-billed Curlews, a smattering of Wille

Hi All: Like everybody else, I’m waiting for returning shorebirds and not having much luck. Marilyn Harding and I had a pleasant hour at Goleta Beach. Only shorebird was a Long-billed Curlew, but we s

Hi all: This is the kind of discussion that’s great to have on sbcobirding, thanks Tom. It’s also the kind of information that gives eBird, or I should say SOME eBird users, a bad name. And lastly, it

Hi All: THIS IS NOT NORMAL! I sat down to have a perfectly quiet, boring lunch and it’s 1 pm in the afternoon — and there they are again: all these tanagers and Black-headed Grosbeaks. They’re crowdin

Hi All: Today was much quieter in my Montecito yard, although the Black-headed Grosbeaks are reluctant to leave, sprinkled with a few Western Tanagers, Nashville Warblers. Just nothing like the prior

Hi Birders: Wow! I’ve been birding since 1980 (gulp!) and I’ve never seen this long a diurnal migration of passerines. I mean it just won’t quit, and there doesn’t seem to be wind involved to stop the