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Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 20, 2024 10:45 by Pamela Viale
- Coal Oil Point Reserve--Dune Pond, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.881839&<ll...>,-119.881839 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S199690030 - Media: 7 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing bird. Medium sized with brown upperparts and gray flanks. White line along flank, and white patch on vent. Yellow green legs and feet. Slightly curved gray beak."
Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1)
- Reported Oct 20, 2024 14:28 by Gjon Hazard
- Gaviota State Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.228442&<ll...>,-120.228442 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S199709239 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "34.472613 -120.227913. On cable fence between the campground and the stream. Loosely associated with Cassin’s Kingbirds. Bright yellow undersides extending up onto breast (more so than a Western Kingbird), transitioning quickly to whitish throat without gray on breast of Cassin’s. Brownish tail without white outer tail feathers and without pale tail tip; tail slightly forked. Bill much larger than other expected kingbirds, but not bulbous like the far less expected Couch’s Kingbird. The bird was silent. To my knowledge, this is the first report of this species at this location this year."
Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1)
- Reported Oct 21, 2024 08:08 by R Dennis Ringer
- UCSB North Campus Open Space (formerly Ocean Meadows Golf Course), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8792197&<ll...>,-119.8792197 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S199788194 - Comments: "Continuing here, at Whittier Pond interacting with Cassin’s Kingbirds. Slightly larger, yellow from belly all the way up to upper breast. Notched tail. Twittering call."
Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1)
- Reported Oct 21, 2024 08:08 by Rebecca Coulter
- UCSB North Campus Open Space (formerly Ocean Meadows Golf Course), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8792197&<ll...>,-119.8792197 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S199786198 - Comments: "Continuing here, at Whittier Pond interacting with Cassin’s Kingbirds. Slightly larger, yellow from belly all the way up to upper breast. Notched tail. Twittering call."
Swinhoe's White-eye (Zosterops simplex) (Exotic: Provisional) (1)
- Reported Oct 21, 2024 08:10 by David Blue
- UCSB North Campus Open Space (formerly Ocean Meadows Golf Course), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8792197&<ll...>,-119.8792197 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S199765245 - Comments: "Bright yellow head with a large distinctive eyering, gray underparts with bright yellow undertail coverts, and olive back. Seen at the Phelps Creek Bridge."
Clay-colored Sparrow (Spizella pallida) (4) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 19, 2024 08:34 by Lucas Gaede
- 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/S199706718 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing; photos. Three together at one time. Boldly marked spizellas with buff wash, dark moustachial stripe, white central crown stripe."
Lucy's Warbler (Leiothlypis luciae) (1)
- Reported Oct 20, 2024 13:23 by Dane St George
- 7402 - 7418 Hollister Ave (Tech Park), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8908561&<ll...>,-119.8908561 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S199803079 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Seen in the canopy of tipu trees at 34.43057, -119.89049. Small pale-gray warbler working slowly and deliberately through crown of canopy. Noticeably smaller than nearby YRWAs and closer in size to bushtits. Whitish eyering, white undertail coverts, and short tail. Likely an immature/bird with no noticeable brown on rump. Was able to get one poor photo."
Blackburnian Warbler (Setophaga fusca) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 20, 2024 15:00 by Steve Hovey
- business park at Mentor Dr, Goleta (restricted access), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8124367&<ll...>,-119.8124367 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S199694428 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Small warbler found by Ryan Seppala in the extreme north-east corner of the Mentor parking lot, with bright yellow breast and neck, two distinct white wing-bars, white underparts with dark streaks on sides and flanks, a large broken eye-ring and light eyebrow."
Blackburnian Warbler (Setophaga fusca) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 20, 2024 15:00 by Dawn Hovey
- business park at Mentor Dr, Goleta (restricted access), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8124367&<ll...>,-119.8124367 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S199695163 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Small warbler found by Ryan Seppala in the extreme north-east corner of the Mentor parking lot, with bright yellow breast and neck, two distinct white wing-bars, white underparts with dark streaks on sides and flanks, a large broken eye-ring and light eyebrow."
Blackburnian Warbler (Setophaga fusca) (1)
- Reported Oct 20, 2024 14:45 by Caleb P.
- business park at Mentor Dr, Goleta (restricted access), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8124367&<ll...>,-119.8124367 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S199711701 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Found by Ryan S. in far NE corner of north lot tipus. Female/immature male type. Yellowish throat extending to breast, otherwise a mostly white underside. Two white wingbars on dark wings with lighter gray markings on face and a few gray streaks on flanks."
Blackburnian Warbler (Setophaga fusca) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 20, 2024 13:25 by Eunice Schroeder
- business park at Mentor Dr, Goleta (restricted access), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8124367&<ll...>,-119.8124367 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S199697557 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Femle/immature found by Ryan Seppala earlier today. Seen wiith other birders in tipus on far northeast side by Hollister. Yellow throat and breast, white belly and undertail, light grayish-brown auriculars, pale crescent under eye, pale supercilium, streaking on mantle, smudgy streaks on flanks and partially on belly, two white wingbars. Photos."
Blackburnian Warbler (Setophaga fusca) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 20, 2024 11:15 by Ryan Seppala
- business park at Mentor Dr, Goleta (restricted access), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8124367&<ll...>,-119.8124367 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S199690006 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Found in the north lot tipus, initially right up against Hollister and immediately east of the exit, and later in the northeast corner of the same lot. I thought this was on the brighter end for fall birds, so I would assume a bright adult female or an immature male. Wings were slate gray with two white wingbars. The mantle was streaked, while the nape and crown appeared uniformly gray. The auriculars were gray as well, with a pale crescent under the eyes and a pale yellow eyestripe. The throat and breast were also yellow, while the belly and undertail coverts were predominantly white. There was streaking on the flanks that fed somewhat onto the sides of the belly. The tail appeared somewhat broad, and the undertail, when folded, was white at the base and black on the edges. The bill was quite thin, and I thought average or possibly slightly above average length for a warbler. The lower mandible was pale at the base with a black tip.
This bird foraged in the mid to upper canopy of the tipus. It did not appear particularly energetic for a warbler, and rarely if ever interacted with the other birds, although it did seem to be moving in correspondence with a mixed flock that included (though perhaps not always at once) TOWA, YEWA, OCWA, and YRWA."
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