We spent over two hours at the Bird Refuge this morning (Tuesday). Only birds of note -- at least four first-year Bonaparte's Gulls and a White-tailed Kite (unusual for this part of town??). Bird on..

Did anyone bother to confirm or deny the presence of Orchard Orioles at the bird refuge today?

Hi All: Some recent postings and comments have spurred me on to write again from afar with some thoughts and observations about learning about status, distribution, and general goings-on in Santa Barb

Hello Birders While birding the ponds this morning, I heard, and observed 3 Longspurs attempting to land among the reeds in the SW pond. The call, tail pattern, and behavior, strongly favor Chestnut -

I prowled around the north end of the Bird Refuge this afternoon (T 11/2; 3:30) and found very little stirring--certainly no orioles. Exceptions were a White-tailed Kite and the GT Grackles, whose num

FYI: Group members now total 72. Now may be a good time to consider changes where everyone can voice an opinion. Given the fact that occasional personal messages are sent to the entire group by mistak

I wish this poll would end

I have to say that I agree with Patrick and Gene on the matter of changing the reply feature for sbcobirding, and for basically the same reasons. (Sorry Mark!) I feel that this is a really important r

Howdy, This may get a little boring but here goes. Thinking maybe I missed something when setting up this group, I've been exploring a little bit in the "moderators" link (that is me). Essentially the

Here is what the Blackpoll said to the Redpoll during a brief encounter this spring. Blackpoll: " Hey, I really like redheads, and I dig that split in your tail. Redpoll: "You're so swee-ee-eet. Wow,

Hi All, Cher and Bruce Hollingworth, Terry and I went searching the newly plowed fields on Union Sugar near Central in Lompoc at about 8:30 this a.m. for possible Longspurs. It was still cool, breezy

Hello all, Work today required a little windshield time so while driving to Santa Barbara from Santa Maria I observed two Common Ravens near the top of Nojoqui Summit north of the Highway 1 and Highwa

Interesting. I had one fly low over and circle me at the same spot, May 9, 98, on the Migration Count, in the parking area just below Lauro Canyon Reservoir. Patrick McNulty Florence Sanchez wrote: --

At the Lake Los Carneros parking lot in Goleta this evening, I had a female BALTIMORE ORIOLE and a female ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK. I located the oriole in the middle ficus tree in the middle of the lot

I have not noticed reduncancies in messages from egroups. Gene Lynch

In each of past two years, while conducting bird surveys along the river, I have found ravens nesting along the "lower" Santa Clara River, Saticoy area (west of west end South Mountain, and further do

Joan Dear, Please come bird with us on Sunday! Won't you dawling? Mark ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Mark Holmgren, Associate Director 805 893-4098 office * Museum of Syst

Regarding new Christmas (holiday) Bird Count centered on Santa Ynez: When and where will the organization occur, and on what date is it scheduled?

Hi all: Tom Wurster (a birder who used to live in SB) is in town for the weekend. At Stow House he saw the Baltimore Oriole, along with a Palm Warbler and a Golden-crowned Kinglet - all in the eucs by

Dave Compton and I birded East Camino Cielo this morning. It was very slow with one Steller's Jay on the north slope of La Cumbre Peak. We then birded some of the Santa Ynez Valley and had the followi