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Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jan 13, 2025 11:11 by Diego Perez
- Stow Grove Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.846034&<ll...>,-119.846034 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209182169 - Comments: "Continuing. First seen around 11:11am picking around the base of the bottlebrush hedge near the beach volleyball courts in NW corner of park. Yellow eye, brown/rufous back, long slender bill."
Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jan 13, 2025 09:51 by Mark Holmgren
- Stow Grove Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.846034&<ll...>,-119.846034 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209200106 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Steve has photos. Seen since 3 January 2025. The bird was always under the row of shrubs outside the park fence along La Patera Road. It never got closer than 20 meters from Cathedral Oaks Road. Rufous-brown back with white wingbars, Yellow iris, decurved bill, chevrons marked an otherwise plain white breast and belly."
Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jan 13, 2025 09:51 by Steve Colwell
- Stow Grove Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.846034&<ll...>,-119.846034 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209203326 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Seen since sometime prior to Jan 4. The bird was always under the row of shrubs outside the park fence along La Patera Road. It never got closer than 20 meters from Cathedral Oaks Road. Rufous-brown back, Yellow iris, decurved bill, chevrons marked an otherwise plain white breast and belly."
Lark Bunting (Calamospiza melanocorys) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jan 13, 2025 12:34 by Mark Holmgren
- Devereux Slough, North Finger, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8718544&<ll...>,-119.8718544 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209200142 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "This bird was found during the Santa Barbara CBC on 4 January 2025 by Max Laubstein and Alex Castelein. Re-found it today by waiting for the WcSp flock to appear in one of the horse stalls in the horse corral."
Orchard Oriole (Icterus spurius) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jan 13, 2025 09:34 by Spencer Seale
- CVWD yard, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.527137&<ll...>,-119.527137 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209166994 - Comments: "Adult male caught my eye as it landed in a eucalyptus tree at the northern edge of District parking lot (34.40535, -119.52714). Smaller Oriole with distinct chestnut-colored body and black hood. It came in from the west (Santa Monica Creek), and continued to move east towards Memorial Park."
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