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

Hi Birders: I finally went out to make a list about 5:30 pm, and by then the activity in my yard had begun to die way down. Many fewer birds. In any case, my best guess about yesterday and today (opin

Hey Birders: It’s insane with all these Western Tanagers, Nashville Warblers, and Black-headed Grosbeaks on the move. Libby Patten reported that Merida Dr was going off like crazy at all the bottlebru

Hi All: For some reason, tonight was again packed with birds feeding at the bottlebrush tree in my backyard. Western Tanagers were added to the mix, along with a robust push of Black-headed Grosbeaks,

Hi All: This spring has been a good one for sheltering in place, hasn’t it? I’ve had so much fun in my backyard, especially after the northeast wind blows a bit the night before. All these late small

Hi Birders: It’s insane with spring migrants outside this afternoon! They are coming through my garden like crazy: Bullock’s orioles, grosbeaks, Wilson’s warblers etc. with the rain and cloudy weather

Hi All: Today there must’ve been some birds moving around: I had a Red-naped Sapsucker and an “early” Hooded Oriole in my yard. According to Lehman, Feb. 28 ties the third earliest record for Hooded O

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