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American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 22, 2024 09:00 by Adrian O'Loghlen
- Coal Oil Point Reserve--Devereux Slough, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8756027&<ll...>,-119.8756027 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196155933 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Medium sized sandpiper, with an overall light brown appearance, hanging with other black bellied plovers, speckled brown belly, and broad white eyebrow stripe. Gold highlights on back feathers. Short darkish bill. Seen with other birders, first found by Lynn Scarlet."
American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 22, 2024 09:00 by Pamela Viale
- Coal Oil Point Reserve--Devereux Slough, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8756027&<ll...>,-119.8756027 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196132254 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Medium sized sandpiper, with an overall light brown appearance, hanging with other black bellied plovers, speckled brown belly, and broad white eyebrow stripe. Gold highlights on back feathers. Short darkish bill. Seen with other birders, first found by Lynn Scarlet."
American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica) (1)
- Reported Sep 22, 2024 14:08 by Caleb P.
- Coal Oil Point, Devereux Beach, Sands Beach, and bluff trails, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8783064&<ll...>,-119.8783064 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196175442 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "continuing juv found yesterday by Lynn Scarlett. smaller overall and smaller bill than the BBPLs it was with, as well as darker plumage, which was especially noticeable in flight. dark cap contrasted well with white supercilium."
American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 22, 2024 11:30 by Toby Fowler
- Coal Oil Point, Devereux Beach, Sands Beach, and bluff trails, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8783064&<ll...>,-119.8783064 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196150613 - Comments: "Continuing. Noticeably smaller & darker than nearby black-bellieds. Golden-yellow accents to feathers. Kept nested behind some driftwood with its head tucked.
Moved down to just before 275, where the outflow normally is."
American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 22, 2024 11:22 by Kyle Kusa
- Coal Oil Point, Devereux Beach, Sands Beach, and bluff trails, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8783064&<ll...>,-119.8783064 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196127493 - Comments: "Continuing bird mixed in with Black-bellied plovers. Good looks at the face. White supercillium and grey cheeks. Face was much less golden/yellow compared to Pacific in Sibley’s illustration."
American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 22, 2024 10:04 by Steve Colwell
- Coal Oil Point, Devereux Beach, Sands Beach, and bluff trails, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8783064&<ll...>,-119.8783064 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196137773 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing bird found by Lynn Scarlett yesterday. Hanging out with flock of Black-bellied Plovers on Sands Beach between 100 yard and 1000 yards west from the Point."
American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 22, 2024 08:47 by Sue Cook
- Coal Oil Point, Devereux Beach, Sands Beach, and bluff trails, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8783064&<ll...>,-119.8783064 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196136712 - Media: 13 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing juvenile first reported by Lynn Scarlett yesterday. First seen on the beach with BBPL around the slough mouth, then flushed nearly to the end of Sands Beach with plover flock. Thereafter the flock gradually made its way eastward on the beach back towards the point. Seen under overcast skies. Gold spangling on back and tertials. Smaller and darker than BBPL, with smaller bill and darker cap contrasting with pale supercilium. Five primaries extending beyond tertials. Photos."
American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 22, 2024 08:15 by David Blue
- Coal Oil Point, Devereux Beach, Sands Beach, and bluff trails, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8783064&<ll...>,-119.8783064 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196145970 - Media: 13 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing juvenile first reported by Lynn Scarlett yesterday. First seen on the beach with BBPL around the slough mouth, then flushed nearly to the end of Sands Beach with plover flock. Thereafter the flock gradually made its way eastward on the beach back towards the point. Seen under overcast skies. Gold spangling on back and tertials. Smaller and darker than BBPL, with smaller bill and darker cap contrasting with pale supercilium. Five primaries extending beyond tertials. Photos."
American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 22, 2024 08:15 by Linda Blue
- Coal Oil Point, Devereux Beach, Sands Beach, and bluff trails, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8783064&<ll...>,-119.8783064 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196139446 - Media: 13 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing juvenile first reported by Lynn Scarlett yesterday. First seen on the beach with BBPL around the slough mouth, then flushed nearly to the end of Sands Beach with plover flock. Thereafter the flock gradually made its way eastward on the beach back towards the point. Seen under overcast skies. Gold spangling on upperparts. Smaller and darker than BBPL, with smaller bill and darker cap contrasting with pale supercilium. Five primaries extending beyond tertials. Photos."
American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 22, 2024 08:15 by Eunice Schroeder
- Coal Oil Point, Devereux Beach, Sands Beach, and bluff trails, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8783064&<ll...>,-119.8783064 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196135595 - Media: 13 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing juvenile first reported by Lynn Scarlett yesterday. First seen on the beach with BBPL around the slough mouth, then flushed nearly to the end of Sands Beach with plover flock. Thereafter the flock gradually made its way eastward on the beach back towards the point. Seen under overcast skies. Gold spangling on back and tertials. Smaller and darker than BBPL, with smaller bill and darker cap contrasting with pale supercilium. Five primaries extending beyond tertials. Photos."
American Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica) (1)
- Reported Sep 22, 2024 08:11 by Noah Gaines
- Coal Oil Point, Devereux Beach, Sands Beach, and bluff trails, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8783064&<ll...>,-119.8783064 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196099681 - Comments: "Like BBPL but with smaller and darker overall and with fine even gold spangling on uppers against a dark gray background. dark spangled gold tail and lacking dark wing pits. . Like PGPL but with darker cap m, blockier head, slightly shorter bill longer primaries and shorter legs. More blocky head. Counted five primaries. Seen twice at med to close range with bins under overcast skies. Hanging with big ground of BBPL"
Sage Thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 19, 2024 10:39 by Libby Patten
- Elings Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.7349691&<ll...>,-119.7349691 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196170359 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Found on 9/18 by Hugh Ranson. In native garden area. Typically on top of tallest coyote brush. Slightly decurved bill, brown upperparts, whitish underparts with brown speckled breast."
Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) (1)
- Reported Sep 22, 2024 11:14 by Lori Gaskin
- Tecolotito Creek, north of Hollister Ave, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8583293&<ll...>,-119.8583293 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196140125 - Comments: "Refound by Jay Bishop along the eucs on the southern edge of the tracks (to the east of the plunge pool). Fleeting views of distinctive yellow head/chest, dark eyes, and gray back."
Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) (1)
- Reported Sep 22, 2024 08:25 by David Compton
- Tecolotito Creek, north of Hollister Ave, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8583293&<ll...>,-119.8583293 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196118024 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing. Plump, short-tailed warbler with bright yellow breast belly, and face; white under tail coverts, white underside of tail with dark tip, dark bluish wings, dark eye."
Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 22, 2024 09:55 by Daniel Farrar
- Village at Los Carneros Open Space, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8612975&<ll...>,-119.8612975 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196170916 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Great find by Andy McGrath. Continuing in Eucs east of favored location yesterday about here (34.4353127, -119.8631764). Vibrant glorious golden yellow head and yellow body with bluish-black wings. Whitish between legs. White under Tail coverts. Tail dark with large white spots in outer rectrices. Tail tipped black. Large dark eye on plain face. Prominent black bill."
Northern Parula (Setophaga americana) (1)
- Reported Sep 22, 2024 09:55 by Daniel Farrar
- Village at Los Carneros Open Space, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8612975&<ll...>,-119.8612975 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196170916 - Comments: "Continuing bird found yesterday by Ryan Sepala. Fairly pale bird. Small warbler with yellow on throat and chest. Pale grayish upper parts with back tinged green and whitish eye arcs"
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