All, Since I have been seeing a lot of ebird records lately with inadequate documentation lately, I wanted to comment on what should be done when you have a record flagged as needing more details: 1.

Now in Year 5 of the BBS effort, we can examine the data set for records in short supply so that we can focus effort looking forward. We list below some species poorly represented in the data set, tho

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Kay Regester <kayregester@...> Date: Sat, May 9, 2020 at 12:46 AM Subject: Bates Chestnut Backed Chickadees To: kay regester <kayregester@...> Went to Bate

Hello Ventura and Santa Barbara, Dan Maxwell and I spent some time birding Rincon Creek at Bates Rd. this morning and encountered a family group of CHESTNUT-BACKED CHICKADEES just downstream of the br

Thurs morning at Stow Grove I heard a call wrong for an acorn woodpecker, thought it might be its cousin a red-headed (whose call was unknown to me) but I was not avid enough to actually look for it.

I had a White-Winged Scoter fly by Coal Oil Point this morning. Pacific Loons are still moving through in small groups as well. Not much else going on. Devereux filled back up. Both the last two night

I had time for a brief stop at Bates Road this morning. It was fairly quiet. The only warblers I could turn up were Orange-Crowned and Common Yellowthroat. I heard a Warbling Vireo singing down creek,

Many mallard and coot chicks now. Some Ibis and a Gallinule. 34 species listed here: https://ebird.org/checklist/S68523107 Ron Hirst, SB

All, I checked Refugio very early this morning. Easily the highlight was my first Mountain Lion running across the road at Circle BarB. About 3 weeks ago I had a Black Bear in the canyon. The winds we

Hello SBCoBirding, Some brief migrant odds and ends (some late) and then a note on nocturnal migration (below): In oak woodlands in the low foothills the past few days (where I've had the good fortune

In the east end of Area K about 5:50 p.m. this evening. Also present at least 3 White-faced Ibis. Florence Sanchez

Sunday afternoon I took a drive out Santa Rosa Road from Buellton just to get out and about. I spotted a wing tagged Turkey Vulture. Today I received notice that the bird was banded in Orange County i

The Solitary Sandpiper was last seen at Lake Jocelyn on April 28, which was day 160. A Spotted Sandpiper has been there since April 22. I haven't seen any Yellow-crowned Night-Herons around Carp in ne

Vary early this morning, 5 birders were at the watchpoint on the road a few 100 yards beyond the Circle Bar B and houses. No migrant movement there this morning. Costa's Hummingbirds were coming to th

Neotropic Cormorant at LLC on Saturday, May 2: https://ebird.org/checklist/S68276665 Betsy Mooney Santa Barbara/Goleta

All: I birded the Brown Road riparian area today. While I didn't see anything really rare, it was very birdy. The Olive Sided Flycatchers continue near the Alco Harvesting entrance. I had at least 12

All, I spent a couple of hours along the watchpoint section and another hour later down at various spots in the canyon. The best bird was a Macgillivray's in the upper canyon. Combining the watchpoint

I hiked the lower leg and a bit of the upper loop trails on Baron Ranch this morning. There was a lot of bird activity, but birding this place, it's more birding by ear than eye because of the trail d

Because of the strong NNE wind forecast for Romero Saddle, I went there this AM for the 2nd time in 3 days. It was very windy when I arrived. The migrants I saw around 6:15 were being blown over my he

This morning, I did the early ridge birding at Refugio with Brad Hacker and Nick Lethaby , then checked a couple of spots in Goleta. At Refugio, we spent about 2.5 hours just past the Circle Bar-B Ran