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Sage Thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus) (2) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 29, 2024 09:29 by Grigory Heaton
- Santa Cruz Island--Scorpion Canyon Campgrounds, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.5645389&<ll...>,-119.5645389 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196979531 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing, one foraging on the ground in the upper campground, another one later with sparrows near the kayak rental camp. Small streaky thrashers with short bills and orange eyes. Photos"
Brief views of it in a dense oak (34.434559, -119.860976), just to the left of where it's been seen over the last view sightings. Best view was of its back half, showing grey above, yellow below with black streaks. Briefly saw it from the outside of the tree (and got a very overexposed photo...) showing the white eyering. I think we saw it head over the creek a few minutes after this (~5:27), and it was pretty silent after that.
Waited for another hour but it didn't show back up. Seems to like this area, but maybe only as part of a larger circuit."
Dickcissel (Spiza americana) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 29, 2024 15:50 by Diego Perez
- Maria Ygnacio Creek--north of US 101, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8033118&<ll...>,-119.8033118 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196973411 - Comments: "great find by ryan s. was out foraging when i arrived and was super cooperative. subtly beautiful with a thick bill, mostly brown with streaking on the back, white throat bordered by dark grey lines, just the slightest amount of yellow on the breast and a very subtle peachy patch on the median coverts."
Dickcissel (Spiza americana) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 29, 2024 15:24 by David Blue
- Maria Ygnacio Creek--north of US 101, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8033118&<ll...>,-119.8033118 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196989062 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Great find this afternoon by Ryan Seppala! Large chunky, sparrow-like bird with a large conical bill, rusty shoulders, and a pale yellow eyebrow and submoustachial stripe. The breast and flanks were lightly streaked, and there was a pale yellow vertical stripe on the center of the breast. There were dark streaks on the upper back."
Dickcissel (Spiza americana) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 29, 2024 15:24 by Linda Blue
- Maria Ygnacio Creek--north of US 101, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8033118&<ll...>,-119.8033118 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196989063 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Great find this afternoon by Ryan Seppala! Large chunky, sparrow-like bird with a large conical bill, rusty shoulders, and a pale yellow eyebrow and submoustachial stripe. The breast and flanks were lightly streaked, and there was a pale yellow vertical stripe on the center of the breast. There were dark streaks on the upper back."
Dickcissel (Spiza americana) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 29, 2024 15:00 by Eunice Schroeder
- Maria Ygnacio Creek--north of US 101, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8033118&<ll...>,-119.8033118 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196983682 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Great find by Ryan Seppala earlier this afternoon. Immature, showing fine streaks and yellow tinge on chest, and streaking on lower flanks; also heavy conical bill, some yellow on eyebrow and malar, touch of rufous on shoulders and dark streaks on back. Photos."
Dickcissel (Spiza americana) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 29, 2024 13:19 by Ryan Seppala
- Maria Ygnacio Creek--north of US 101, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8033118&<ll...>,-119.8033118 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196976685 - Comments: "Feeding in the grass initially under the fig tree, here: (34.4461102, -119.8035683). I was tracking a bunting and noticed a bird next to it with a streaked mantle, and it turned out to be a beautiful DICK! In addition to a streaked mantle, the bird had fine streaking on the breast with a yellow wash, some yellow on what were predominantly a white supercilium and submoustachial stripe, a dark malar stripe, a large fleshy bill with a decurved upper mandible, streaking on the lower flanks, and hints of chestnut on the wingbars. Primaries, secondaries, and coverts were predominantly black at the base. The bird moved around for the next few hours, usually near the fig but sometimes along the southern boundary of the open space. Photos later."
Dickcissel (Spiza americana) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 29, 2024 15:30 by Sue Cook
- Patterson Open Space, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.903097&<ll...>,-119.903097 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196976367 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "First reported by Ryan Seppala. Dark cap, large bill, gray cheeks and nape, buffy eye line and throat, buffy upper chest with light streaks, gray belly with faint streaks, small yellow spot above the eye, yellow spot on the chest, brown patterned back."
Dickcissel (Spiza americana) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 29, 2024 15:00 by Pamela Viale
- Patterson Open Space, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8034153&<ll...>,-119.8034153 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196984486 - Media: 8 Photos
- Comments: "Medium sized bird with brown striped back and gray head. White bib, Dark lines on either side of bib, face with yellow eye stripes and yellow breast. First found by Ryan Seppala today. Seen with many other birders."
Dickcissel (Spiza americana) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 29, 2024 15:00 by Adrian O'Loghlen
- Patterson Open Space, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8034153&<ll...>,-119.8034153 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196985638 - Media: 8 Photos
- Comments: "Medium sized bird with brown striped back and gray head. White bib, Dark lines on either side of bib, face with yellow eye stripes and yellow breast. First found by Ryan Seppala today. Seen with many other birders."
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