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Broad-billed Hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris) (1)
- Reported Feb 16, 2025 07:51 by Peter Gaede
- 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/S213907802 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Heard calling several times at different locations prior to getting a visual. Rapid ticking calls, similar but faster than a ruby-crowned kinglet. Very active, seen mostly in flight zipping around the dense willows north of 6th street west of the Carpinteria Sanitary District offices located at 5300 6th Street. Perched briefly on two occasions but not for long. Female with dark patch behind eye bordered white above and below. Somewhat long, down-curved bill, dark with orange at base. Tail broad and V shaped."
Broad-billed Hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris) (1)
- Reported Feb 16, 2025 07:46 by R. S.
- 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/S213941531 - Comments: "Heard call a few times throughout the time we were there. Eventually saw the bird quickly moving in and out of the willows on the far side from the sanitary district offices."
Broad-billed Hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris) (1)
- Reported Feb 16, 2025 07:46 by TJ Hastings
- 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/S213941530 - Comments: "Heard call a few times throughout the time we were there. Eventually saw the bird quickly moving in and out of the willows on the far side from the sanitary district offices."
Green-tailed Towhee (Pipilo chlorurus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 16, 2025 10:15 by Eunice Schroeder
- Carpinteria State Beach, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.5230103&<ll...>,-119.5230103 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S213944340 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing in the campground, on the ground by the hedge to the left of the entrance circle at the end of Palm Ave. Mostly gray, with rufous crown, yellow-greenish wings and tail, white throat with black throat stripe. Photo."
Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 16, 2025 16:02 by Eve Martin
- 6th & Palm Avenue, Carpinteria, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.5188865&<ll...>,-119.5188865 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S213951465 - Comments: "Continuing rarity. A busy bird. When I walked up he was sitting in the chain link fence at the street sign corner of 6th and Palm Avenue. While I fumbled for my cell phone camera, he crossed Palm Avenue to one of the yards for several minutes and, before I crossed, he was back in the chain link fence again. I next spotted him feeding on the ground among the ivy at the red and black "FIRE" labeled water pipes close to the Walnut & 6th corner and spending some time in the tree directly above. Chipping much of the time while foraging. A tail-bobbing warbler with a rufous crown, a dark eyeline and bright yellow undertail coverts. I don't think there was any color on the breast and belly of the bird, just some light streaking on the upper breast and partly down the sides."
Palm Warbler (Western) (Setophaga palmarum palmarum) (1)
- Reported Feb 16, 2025 08:50 by Peter Gaede
- Walnut Ave x Sixth Street, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.519572&<ll...>,-119.519572 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S213907690 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing bird, seen at the intersection of Walnut Ave and 6th Street, moving to vegetated areas at each of the four street corners. Cap distinctly reddish, with long pale supercilium contrasting with a dark cheek. Tail wagging. Yellow undertail coverts. Photo."
Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum) (1)
- Reported Feb 16, 2025 08:05 by David Blue
- 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/S213947701 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "A wintering bird here since fall 2023. Seen today foraging on both the SE and the NE corner of 6th Street and Walnut Avenue. A dull brown bird with a bright brown cap, a dark eyeline, a pale eyebrow, pale arcs above and below the eyes, and a thin bill. It had pale underparts with brown streaks, and the undertail coverts were a pale yellow. Constantly pumped its tail up and down."
Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum) (1)
- Reported Feb 16, 2025 08:05 by Linda Blue
- 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/S213947702 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "A wintering bird here since fall 2023. Seen today foraging on both the SE and the NE corner of 6th Street and Walnut Avenue. A dull brown bird with a bright brown cap, a dark eyeline, a pale eyebrow, pale arcs above and below the eyes, and a thin bill. It had pale underparts with brown streaks, and the undertail coverts were a pale yellow. Constantly pumped its tail up and down."
Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 16, 2025 07:55 by Eunice Schroeder
- 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/S213936451 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing. At corner of 6th and Walnut. Rufous crown, wide pale superciliuim, light streaks on breast, yellow UTC, pumping tail. Photo."
Black-headed Grosbeak (Pheucticus melanocephalus) (1)
- Reported Feb 15, 2025 08:26 by John Deacon
- Deacon Home (Restricted Access), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.432212&<ll...>,-120.432212 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S213967386 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "We first saw the bird on 2-16 in the yard. When I checked the gamecam, I found it at 0826 on this date and periodically throughout the day. Large sparrowish looking bird. Huge beak. Orange breast with light streaking. Broadly striped head."
Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 16, 2025 08:05 by David Blue
- 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/S213947701 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Seen briefly from 8:24 to 8:27 AM in the willows on the west side of the Carpinteria Sanitary District Office about 20 yards north of 6th Street (34.3935504, -119.5177920). An extremely skulking bird staying deep in the dense foliage and affording almost no opportunities for photos. Quick, short views showed an extremely colorful adult male with a brilliant blue head and scarlet eye-ring, a lime green back, and bright red underparts and rump. A continuing wintering bird first found by John Callender on November 19, 2023."
Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 16, 2025 08:05 by Linda Blue
- 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/S213947702 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Seen briefly from 8:24 to 8:27 AM in the willows on the west side of the Carpinteria Sanitary District Office about 20 yards north of 6th Street (34.3935504, -119.5177920). An extremely skulking bird staying deep in the dense foliage and affording almost no opportunities for photos. Quick, short views showed an extremely colorful adult male with a brilliant blue head and scarlet eye-ring, a lime green back, and bright red underparts and rump. A continuing wintering bird first found by John Callender on November 19, 2023."
Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Feb 16, 2025 08:00 by David Compton
- 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/S213849896 - Comments: "First spotted by David Blue and then watched off and on for ten or fifteen minutes; seen mostly deep in the willows, where it would occupy one perch then move to another. There was a stretch of a few minutes where the bird was not in view at all, and it typically was in view for a few seconds to maybe a minute at a time. Very brightly colored song bird, slightly chunky in build with a medium length tail. I didn't see the bill very well. The heard was deep blue, and the there was a red eye ring around the dark eye. The mantle was lime green, and the under parts and rump were red. The wings were mostly greenish, but the wing coverts had a mixture of red and green."
Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) (1)
- Reported Feb 16, 2025 07:55 by Eunice Schroeder
- 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/S213936451 - Comments: "Beautiful continuing bird in willows on west side of the Carpinteria Sanitary District building. Unmistakable, with brilliant blue head, bright lime-green mantle and red underparts and rump."
Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) (1)
- Reported Feb 16, 2025 07:51 by Peter Gaede
- 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/S213907802 - Comments: "Continuing In willows adjacent to the Carpinteria Sanitary District offices, pointed out to me by Dave Compton and others who were on the bird first. It was feeding in the cover of the dense willows for a couple of minutes before disappearing. Male with a distinctive set of solid colors: blue (head), red (throat and underparts), and green (back). Silent."
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