After arranging access to the golf course for scouting and CBC counting, I took a short tour on the west side of the driving range. In the driving range was a flock of 14 Chipping Sparrows, a cowbird,

I noticed an adult tan-morph White-throated Sparrow running around my back yard feeders with White & Golden-crowns. I haven't had one in my yard for years, and usually they are white-morphs. Cher Holl

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Hi birders, If you have not seen it yet, here is the National Audubon report from last year’s 120th CBC, an interesting look at the counts across the Western Hemisphere (and beyond), with trends, brie

Right now. 4 female Hooded Mergansers and a Male Wood Duck at Alice Keck. They were not here last night. So don’t know how long they will stay. Noah Gaines SB CA

This morning I birded the Salt Marsh Nature Park and west to Santa Monica Creek. There were 7 Yellow-crowned Night Herons in the Nature Park and on Franklin Creek. A pair of Peregrine Falcons flew aro

Tuesday morning, Dec. 8, 2020, Gobernador Canyon Rd., Carpinteria In preparation for the Carp CBC (Dec. 19th - to sign up, contact callender.john@...) I birded the above road with Mario Borunda and An

White-throated Sparrow at 7190 Gobernador. Rob Carp -- Rob Denholtz Carpinteria

All: I birded the SMCC this morning before the wind made the area unbirdable. Highlights were a Vermilion Flycatcher and a Tropical Kingbird. I also had a Red Tailed Hawk with a couple of bands on its

Yesterday early in the afternoon I was surveying East Beach and the Mission Creek outflow area. I noticed in the growing flock of black skimmers there were four banded skimmers. The left leg was bande

The tail-less Palm Warbler (first seen on October 29) was seen again today about 200 yards west of the Phelps Creek Bridge in the area where there’s a gap on the right before the final few houses on t

Just curious, as I have not seen any recent reports .... is the Curlew Sandpiper no longer at Goleta? Lisa -- Lisa D Walker-Roseman, Fort Bragg, CA (visiting Lompoc through November)

All: I birded a few North County locations this morning, mainly in search of Mountain Bluebirds. No Mountain Bluebirds were found but I did see a Ferruginous Hawk, Golden Eagle and Wild Turkey at the

Ryanne Bee came by to stake out Cassin's Finch which unfortunately failed to appear. As a consolation while we waited a nice Clay-colored Sparrow dropped in. New yard bird!! Looks here: Clay-colored S

Got to visit West Beach and the Mission Creek estuary at dusk this evening and do some rapid sunset birding. A range of birds off-shore of West Beach, including a red-breasted mergansers, a female sur

Hi, everyone. The ocean was super rough out there this morning. There was a Surf Scoter that was resting on the sand at the river's edge this morning. He was the darkest immature Surf Scoter I have ev

The Cassin's Finches have continued at my feeders, visits seem less frequent and seemingly without much pattern. I can now account for a total of 5 birds having seen 3 males at one time and two female

This afternoon there was a Loggerhead Shrike in the small field and willow riparian strip just north of the Whittier Pond. Also a Sora was in the spot just south of the Phelps Creek Bridge where the V

Birded NCOS from 8:00 to 9:30 this morning. The first pond had three Hooded Merganser (1 male, 2 female). Two left by 8:10 leaving a lone female. There were several Dowitcher in the upper, nearly dry,

What seems to be at a distance a ad. F common goldeneye has been near the first and 3rd platforms. Well marked with dark Bill. Tropical Kingbird also.