Hi All, Here is a link for the closed state parks and a little more information. https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30355 I will probably check next week, the weekends are always crowded. Safe and good

SB Birders, The state has closed 101 State Parks, Beaches and SRA’s. For Santa Barbara County, Carpinteria, El Cap, Refugio and Gaviota are now closed temporarily. I’m not exactly sure what this means

SB Birders, Today’s first stop was the ponds at Hwy246 and Campbell Road, 8 pairs of Cinnamon and one pair of Green-winged Teal and a pair of Ring-necked Ducks. Probably won’t count Mallards today. I

SB Birders. I headed west to Lompoc to see what was going. I first stoped at the ponds on Hwy 246 just east of Campbell Road. It is staring to get some water, but the duck numbers are rapidly dropping

SB Birders, Today while birding at River View Park in Buellton I saw at least 3 Vaux’s Swifts mixed in with the White-throated Swifts and the many swallows. There could have been Vaux’s Swifts, but I

SB Birders, Yesterday March 18th I finally decided to go look at the Tufted Duck. In doing this I started birding at Gaviota, no birds to report, the Refugio State Beach, no birds, the Sandpiper Golf

Birders, Santa Maria Sewage Facility located at 601 S. Black Road has new birding hours. Monday through Thursday 8:00am to 4:30pm Friday 8:00am to 3:30pm, they do not want us to enter the facility aft

SB Birders, I made a couple stops this morning while passing through the Cuyama Valley. My first stop was at the Caliente Wetlands. They were surprisingly wet and full of water. Here I saw 10 Cinnamon

SB Birders, I ventured up to Fig and Ranger Peak to take in some more windshield birding today. I saw about 25 or 30ish Red X-bills this morning a couple hundred yards east of the Davey Brown Trail He

SB Birders, I birded up in Santa Maria mainly windshield birding. My first stop was James May Park the birds of note are 7 American White Pelicans. I then checked out the retention basin at Blosser an

Hi All, Just to add to Rob’s report, there was one A. White Pelican at River Park in Lompoc today. Good birding, Wes Fritz 805 895 0685 wes-fritz@... Solvang CA

SB Birders, Cruz and I went out for some windshield style scouting in the residential area. We did not find any megas or anything rare, but we noted that the Phainopeplas and Cassin’s Kingbirds, were

SB Birders, I made a brief stop by the sewage treatment works on Black Road in Santa Maria. There is not really much to report but 2 adult Iceland ( Thayer’s) and one juvenile, 7 Herring Gulls and 4 G

Hi all, To add to Nick’s ducked-up duck deal. There are a few other duck species that are in very low numbers or are completely absent. I should mention first that I can not find any Canvasback Ducks

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SB Birders, I made my first stop at the pond on Hwy 246 just east of Campbell Road. This pond is nearly dry now with only three A. Coots remaining. My next stop was the garden area at La Purisima Miss

Sorry, just testing out my email issues, please forgive me. Good birding Wes Fritz 805 895 0685 wes-fritz@... Solvang CA

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Hi all, Just to add to the gull thread. Up in north county we are starting to get some Gulls. Last Friday 11-8-19 @ the Santa Maria Sewage Works I saw my first Glaucous-winged Gull, 20+ Mew Gulls, 9 B

SB Birders, Cruz Phillips and I bounced around the SMV yesterday 10-30-19 and saw a few cool birds. We started at the Los Alamos County Park in Los Alamos and it was kinda birdy, but nothing notable.