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American Wigeon x Mallard (hybrid) (Mareca americana x Anas platyrhynchos) (1)
- Reported Oct 26, 2024 12:29 by Michael I Christie
- Jack O'Connell Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.5904007&<ll...>,-120.5904007 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S200541022 - Comments: "A male amongst other Mallards: mallard type body pattern and size; distinctly 'widgeon' head: dull greenish crown and pale face; short bluish bill with dark tip. I saw it well, but unfortunately through the wire fencing, so could not get the camera to focus before it slipped down to the pond, out of sight. I waited for 30+ minutes but no show. Also stopped by on return from Guada Dunes, about 17:30 but all Mallards were gone, zero.
(only Shovelers, Ruddy and Coots left)."
Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) (1)
- Reported Oct 26, 2024 12:29 by Michael I Christie
- Jack O'Connell Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.5904007&<ll...>,-120.5904007 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S200541022 - Comments: "a female sallying from fences and other perches in SE corner of WTP, will add pics. (smallish flycatcher, brown above with faint whit wing-bars, whitish streaked breast, and pinkish belly; tail bobbing and sallying in air and to ground)."
Clay-colored Sparrow (Spizella pallida) (4)
- Reported Oct 25, 2024 11:00 by Ron Burkert
- 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/S200558914 - Comments: "Continuing. Photos at lower end of first campground before small falcon buzzed the feeding sparrow group by the old equipment. Verify only WCSPs and CCSPs from photos."
Tennessee Warbler (Leiothlypis peregrina) (2)
- Reported Oct 27, 2024 10:59 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/S200531121 - Comments: "Green wings, mantle, and head with a pale supercilium. White belly and undertail coverts. Relatively slow-moving birds initially spotted together in some low trees on the north end of the basketball court, and then flew up into the tipus on the opposite side. Perhaps a third bird was seen later in the day in the northern parking lot. Photos soon."
Northern Parula (Setophaga americana) (1)
- Reported Oct 27, 2024 16:00 by Adrian O'Loghlen
- 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/S200547593 - Media: 7 Photos
- Comments: "Small, very active warbler with distinctive olive green patch on back, blue gray upperparts. Bright yellow throat and breast with rusty brown breast band. White belly. Slight greenish tinge to head cap. Bill bicolored. Divided eyering."
Northern Parula (Setophaga americana) (1)
- Reported Oct 27, 2024 16:00 by Pamela Viale
- 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/S200547280 - Media: 7 Photos
- Comments: "Small, very active warbler with distinctive olive green patch on back, blue gray upperparts. Bright yellow throat and breast with rusty brown breast band. White belly. Slight greenish tinge to head cap. Bill bicolored. Divided eyering. First found by the intrepid Hovey duo."
Northern Parula (Setophaga americana) (1)
- Reported Oct 27, 2024 15:13 by Dawn Hovey
- 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/S200550143 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Warbler with blue-grey head, white eye arcs, yellow throat, yellow chest, chestnut markings on chest and sides. Seen in the tipu in the northeast corner of the western parking lot. Moved around a lot (with one short rest period) but stayed in the same tree. We watched it for around 30 minutes and it was still there when we left. See photos."
Northern Parula (Setophaga americana) (1)
- Reported Oct 27, 2024 15:13 by Steve Hovey
- 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/S200550166 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Warbler with blue-grey head, white eye arcs, yellow throat, yellow chest, chestnut markings on chest and sides. Seen in the tipu in the northeast corner of the western parking lot. Moved around a lot (with one short rest period) but stayed in the same tree. We watched it for around 30 minutes and it was still there when we left. See photos."
Blackburnian Warbler (Setophaga fusca) (1)
- Reported Oct 27, 2024 08:18 by Conor McMahon
- Franceschi Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.6943927&<ll...>,-119.6943927 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S200535173 - Media: 8 Photos
- Comments: "Seen for a couple seconds very early in my visit in a lerpy red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) immediately next to the parking lot. I snapped a couple terrible photos, then the bird flew and I didn't see it again during the rest of the visit despite spending most of the next ~ 2.5 hrs looking at red gums. Visitors should be advised that while the area visible from the parking lot has a few red gum trees, there's actually a much more extensive area of red gums which continues west and north and which is accessible on foot through some (at times very steep) dirt trails. Warbler flocks were moving around a lot between lerpy areas.
Photos show a warbler with two strong wing bars, yellowish wash anteriorly to orangish on throat, dark auriculars in a distinctive triangular pattern which extends sharply down at lower rear end and points up at upper rear end, strong supercilium, possibly some faint flank streaking, faint light-colored 'braces' on back."
Pine Warbler (Setophaga pinus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 27, 2024 08:24 by Ann Stockert
- Allan Hancock College, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.4205418&<ll...>,-120.4205418 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S200502343 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "*Rare but likely regular in Santa Maria. Continuing nice bright yellow male found by Todd Easterla yesterday. Seen in pines and on ground in same area Todd saw it the other day. Stater for Ann🥳 Pics."
Hepatic Tanager (Piranga flava) (1)
- Reported Oct 21, 2024 10:21 by Tom Edell
- Evergreen Open Space, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8909131&<ll...>,-119.8909131 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S199816588 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Seen from paved trail by the gray trash can and orange cone (34.4369840, -119.8874122). Perched in two different eucs before flying off west; never saw it again over the next 50 minutes. Very poor view due to sun direction and bird perched partially in shade among branches. Photos lightened (more than preferred) and show the grayish cheek and bill with dark upper mandible and blue-gray lower mandible, red crown and underparts."
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