All, Went by Carpinteria Salt Marsh to see if the Gray Flycatcher was still around. I spent about an hour and did not find it (or any other Empidonax flycatchers). Did watch a sharp-shinned hawk nearl

There was an immature Bald Eagle hanging around COPR this morning (Mon). Cris Sandoval first reported it at Coal Oil Point at around 9:30 am but it had left by the time I arrived soon after 10.. Howev

Hello all, I stopped by the Carpinteria Salt Marsh Nature Park this morning for a quick check and I encountered a GRAY FLYCATCHER on the eastern edge of the park off Ash Ave (34.39719, -119.52703). I

At Painted Cave this AM, visual migration was nearly non-existent--aside from a few swifts and swallows--in spite of a 20-kph downslope wind above ~700 m elevation. The weak regional wind last night a

All, Migration was minimal this AM. In the watchpoint area I had a Western Kingbird and a couple of Warbling Vireos move through. There were several each of BH Groabeak and Lazuli Bunting but they wer

Hi all, Conor McMahon, Kate Reed, Olivia D’Arezzo, Aaron Kreisberg, and I from Goleta Coast Audubon Society + Steve Colwell had a good seawatch at Coal Oil Point this morning. Loon migration was in fu

This morning between errands I checked out a couple of spots. Laguna Blanca is drying up but has lots of shorebirds, unfortunately at quite a distance from any possible observation point so that ident

Hi all, This morning I drove west to Refugio Canyon and up to Refugio Pass, and I have a similar report to others checking out the southern canyons this spring of decent diversity but low overall numb

This morning at Andree Clark Bird Refuge: Long-tailed Duck: Still present at 7:50 am, immature duck diving in the outflow between Cabrillo and the ocean. Follow the trail of bubbles and you can see it

Wind pattern did not look god for significant visual migration this AM, and indeed there was only a trickle of migrants moving up toward Painted Cave. My first tanagers of the season, continuing low n

I walked around Coal Oil Point and then up the beach at low tide this afternoon and was treated to a mass of small shorebirds east of the point. They were mostly Western Sandpipers (most in breeding p

Gayle and I birded El Capitan Canyon this morning and as reported by other birders at different locations today, there was a lot more migrant activity. Most of the migrants we saw were foraging in or

There was a nice assortment of migrants this morning (Friday, April 15, 2022) along the lower part of the Romero Canyon trail. The birding was especially good around 7:30 when the sun first hit the tr

Hi all! I decided to bird Barka Slough - have been going out there off and on since I returned to SBCO in mid-March. Today, I finally found a gorgeous male Blue Grosbeak out there, on San Antonio Road

Found by Lynn Scarlett. Present at 3:15pm in outflow channel (on ocean side). Lori Gaskin

This morning I birded a small area surrounding the Garden st. outflow on East Beach. Notable were a Barn Swallow gathering nesting material from the beach - many were flying over the small lagoon drop

I visited Lake Jocelyn later this morning after reading the recent report about the solitary Sandpiper. When I was there a week ago, I did not turn it up though other shorebirds reported were still ar

Today I walked up Murietta Canyon Trail to Murietta Saddle and then up the "Monte Arido Trail" (in the direction away from Monte Arido, hence the quotation marks) to E Camino Cielo and Divide Peak. My

Fun day at the east end of Lake Cachuma. More shorebirds were on DeVaul Bay than were there last evening. I counted 191 peeps. The Dunlin was gone, but 4 Semipalmated Plovers were present. Also, a Cat

I didn't mention in my post yesterday that I spotted a most odd flock of something circling at the limit of my binocular range. There were about 20 birds circling near the mountains slightly to the ea