By popular demand, here is this season's Christmas Bird Count map for Santa Barbara County: https://bit.ly/2OToquo This map shows, to the best of my knowledge, the circles and dates of the CBCs of Cac

All: To add to my huge numbers of Greater Yellowlegs at the soccer field on College in Santa Maria, I had 126 Ring Necked Ducks at the Santa Maria Mesa Road Ponds this morning. There were 96 on the so

Two Short-eared Owls continue on San Marcos Foothills Preserve this morning, along with Northern Harrier and White-tailed Kite. The burned grasses have revealed a landscape completely riddled with rod

All If you are in Santa Maria, it may be worth a stop at the soccer field at Southside Parkway and College. I just counted 70 Greater Yellowlegs, 8 dowitchers and over 60 Mallards. A few other species

Been waiting for my Fox Spartow to return, almost gave up on him… got home from 3 days in LA and there he was, he seemed pretty aggressive and hungry. David -- David Levasheff Santa Barbara

Today, Friday, November 29, I birded from Campus Point, at the UCSB Lagoon, Devereux, and a bit at Lake Los Carneros. Campus Pt: Seeing the winds were from the southwest when I left the house, I thoug

Two on the burned area of San Marcos Foothills Reserve along with a Norther Harrier. Ash on the ground, snow on the mountains.

I saw a Prairie Falcon at NCOS this morning. Water levels are still rising as Devereux Creek is still flowing. Very wet along the Ellwood Trails. -- Nick Lethaby Goleta, CA

In between heavy rains that left nearly an inch of slush on San Marcos Pass summit, I scoped the bay at the mouth of DeVaul Canyon. I saw a Horned Grebe, the first I've seen on the lake in nearly 2 de

All: Remember when you were excited to see a Scaly Breasted Munia? I've got a flock of 20-30 on my feeders almost continuously over the last few weeks. Of more interest is a White Throated Sparrow who

Was already out and about so ran out Santa Rosa Road outside of Buellton to check some vineyard ponds. Birds were not there earlier in the week but had a pair of Hooded Merganser, pair of Ring-necked

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I set out to check Basin K of Goleta Slough, to see if there was any water after the rains, and found no standing water there are all. So, I ended up birding around the St

The tipu trees at the Music Academy were deathly quiet at 1:15 (usually there are at least many YRs chipping). In the trees on the east side, facing Butterfly Lane, there were a b&w, an o c, and a Tow

I took a look at Laguna Blanca late this afternoon, sans scope. There are pretty good numbers of waterfowl out there. Ruddy Ducks were most numerous, followed by Bufflehead (20+), with smaller numbers

All, Sorry to keep up the doom and gloom on ducks, but I wanted to find out if folks have seen any Redheads on the south coast in the last week or so. Ebird shows that 10-15 birds arrived around Nov 1

In spite of the weather a small group of our Wednesday birders worked around the downpours and found 43 species. A decent count despite being limited to the area around the ranch buildings. Best birds

All, We had an inch of rain in Goleta last night and Devereux has filled up considerably to very bird-friendly level. Already there were quite a few ducks using it this morning, mostly mallards. Shove

Lisa Nelms, Elaine Tan, and I boated on Cachuma on Monday, 25 Nov. Highlights were 1 Snow Goose, 5 Greater White-fronted Geese, 2 Peregrines, 1 Lewis Woodpecker, and end-of-breeding breeding evidence

This morning I came across a Warbling Vireo in Bohnett Park on Santa Barbara's Westside. Presumably this is the returning bird, now back for its SEVENTH winter. I missed the bird last winter despite c

I've been wondering what the Pied-billed Grebes at the Whittier Pond (east end of NCOS) have been eating and this am I was lucky enough to see at least one item that's on their 'menu'! Adrian O'Loghle