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Broad-billed Hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 15, 2025 09:06 by Caleb P.
- stakeout Painted Bunting (Carpinteria Sanitary District, 2023-2024), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.517327&<ll...>,-119.517327 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S213562581 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing female in willows west of sanitary district offices. Distinct white stripe above and behind eye, orangish lower mandible, and green back with some blue on tail feathers."
Broad-billed Hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 15, 2025 07:48 by John Callender
- stakeout Painted Bunting (Carpinteria Sanitary District, 2023-2024), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.517327&<ll...>,-119.517327 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S213513334 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing. Found today by Curtis Marantz by its Ruby-crowned Kinglet–like call, in the willows west of the Sanitary District offices. Through binoculars I had a brief glimpse of a relatively large (for a hummingbird) hummingbird with a strongly decurved beak, a dark auricular patch, and a blue-green tail. My out-of-focus photo more or less shows those features."
Greater Pewee (Contopus pertinax) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 15, 2025 09:11 by David Compton
- Ennisbrook Open Space, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.6226395&<ll...>,-119.6226395 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S213564977 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Present for an hour and a half in a clear area along the creek, in sycamores, including more than a half hour continually in the same tree. It was mostly backlit during this time, but we saw it in decent light at times. It was not very active, so we got to study it pretty well in each view, but it took a while to see all parts of the bird well. Medium sized flycatcher with distinctly peaky crest, grayish overall appearance, but with narrow and vaguely pale yellow area on the belly, coming to a peak at the bottom of the breast, whitish edges to the tertials, pale throat, vague and pale wing bars, and vague olive cast to the mantle when the bird was facing away.. Also, a very narrow white ring was visible around the eye as seen through the scope. The bill looked narrow from the side and entirely pale on the underside. When the bird faced toward us the bill looked reasonably broad at the base, narrowing toward the tip, and there appeared to be a small dark area at the tip. Both wings and tail were fairly long, and the tail was all dark on the underside."
Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 15, 2025 09:39 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/S213597943 - Comments: "Continuing at Whittier Pond. Light gray head with a darker ear patch, long heavy black bill, a bright yellow belly with the yellow extending up to the throat, and a long notched tail."
Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 15, 2025 11:54 by Lori Gaskin
- 6th and Walnut Carpinteria US-CA, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.519423&<ll...>,-119.519423 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S213596557 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing. SE corner of 6th and Walnut (business park corner). Flew off to the east toward Palm before I could get a picture. Prominent rufous crown and yellowish/white eyebrows. Light chest with brown streaks. Came back to same location about 40 minutes later and refound bird. Able to get photos."
Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 15, 2025 11:54 by Rick Boyer
- 6th and Walnut Carpinteria US-CA, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.519423&<ll...>,-119.519423 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S213616040 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing. SE corner of 6th and Walnut (business park corner). Flew off to the east toward Palm before I could get a picture. Prominent rufous crown and yellowish/white eyebrows. Light chest with brown streaks. Came back to same location about 40 minutes later and refound bird. Able to get photos."
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