Los Caneros, Wednesday, Sep. 19, 2018 Despite a late start, Mario and I were able to tick off 54 species. We hit an amazing trifecta in the SE corner of the lake: SORA, VIRGINIA RAIL, and WILSON'S SNI

A juvenile Red Knot was south of the half bridge at Coal Oil Point Reserve this morning. Around 12:30pm I visited Winchester One park. There Ken Pearlman showed me the Blackpoll Warbler right at the p

Also had a Hermit Warbler at the south end around 9 this am. -- Bill Murdoch Santa Barbara

All, I eventually refound Joan and Libby’s Blackpoll pretty much in the same tree they last saw it. I think it may be spending some time out of the eucs. Prior to that I saw a Black-and-white and a Na

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One this morning at Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden in downtown Santa Barbara, in the T. tipu trees near Arrellaga St. As Noah has noted, lots of warbler activity here. Dave Compton Santa Barbara

All, Yesterday I went up to Ocean Beach Park for a last desperate swing at the BT Godwit. Based on my experience at Devereux in some springs, I hoped a large amount of curlews and godwits might roll i

Winchester One Park, along with many other western migrants! Joan Lentz

Yesterday I posted a Least Tern on Carp City Beach. The markings were right but it may have been too big a bird for Least. May have been a Foster's. Will need to take another look. This morning, there

9/18/18 This evening I went back to Alice Keck Park to check the bat spectacle. Before they arrived, I watched a nice flock of ~15 warblers as they foraging lowish in the liquidambars with a PACIFIC-S

Hi All: Great day to get out & check the fall migrant scene, and by the looks of it, lots of other folks out today too. I started off at the Bird Refuge, ran into John Callender (who’d seen the PECTOR

La Mesa Park was very birdy around noon today, especially around that swale in the back of the park. Unfortunately I only had a few minutes to sort through the flock I found, but I managed to pull out

Carpinteria City Beach and Carpinteria Creek, Tuesday morning, Sep 18, 2018 This morning Mario Borunda and I birded the above areas. Best bird was a LEAST TERN associated with a flock of ELEGANTS and

God morning at the bird refuge--up to 3 apparent Willow Flycatchers. One for sure and two others that looked likely. Whit call from at least one, one has no tail! Also flyover Loggerhead Shrike, conti

A quick stop at Refugio this AM found very few migrants, a few Western Tanager and Yellow Warblers. Bella Vista Open Space had a Red-breasted Nuthatch, two Warbling Vireos as well as adult and juv Coo

Identified by Joan Lentz. Seen in the shrubs on the east side of the entrance lawn. Then flew to a narrow Eucalyptus behind the benches near the swings. Observed for about 5 minutes. Immature bird wit

All, Before work, I spent about 40 minutes checking various parts of Ellwood. The Ovenbird notwithstanding, this reconfirmed that there are very few warblers in the eucs. I had 3 warblers during the w

Male Black-throated Green Warbler seen at fountain at my home in Montecito at 0945.

9/17/18 - I have been checking Alice Keck Park regularly and last week there was a large influx of warblers. Most were Wilson's but there were 2 Black-throated Grays mixed in. Today when walking home

Tiday I checked out the tamarisks along the Tee Time driving range. Not much happening there until I got to the end of the fence to an area that looks like it has been used to move or store debris fro