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Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) (1)
- Reported Sep 14, 2025 08:30 by Lynn Scarlett
- Coal Oil Point, Devereux Beach, Sands Beach, and bluff trails, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8783064&<ll...>,-119.8783064 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S273433848 - Media: 12 Photos
- Comments: "smallish tern, black patch over eye extending to and connecting with black on nape; dark charcoal/black carpal bar on wings, dark bill with slight bit of orange at base; see photos; seen along with Mark Holmgren and 3 others"
Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 10, 2025 10:10 by Linda Blue
- Coal Oil Point, Devereux Beach, Sands Beach, and bluff trails, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8783064&<ll...>,-119.8783064 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S273478291 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing, on beach with flock of Elegant Tern. Smaller than Elegants, white forehead with black hindcrown and black around eye, mostly black bill with some orange at the base, orange legs, dark carpal bar. Photos."
American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) (1)
- Reported Sep 13, 2025 10:23 by Keri Dearborn
- 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/S273432237 - Comments: "Small fast moving insect-hunting warbler in the eucalyptus trees beside the restroom located between the kayak concession and the lower campground. Very specific pale gray head and chest with darker wings and yellow at the base of wing. Long tail with black band at the end, black down the center and sided with bright yellow. Two of us saw the female American redstart at Sepulveda Basin in the recent past and both ID'd independently that this bird was also a female Am. redstart. Very surprised to see it on the island. Tried to get a photo, but we weren't the group with the photographers."
American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) (1)
- Reported Sep 13, 2025 10:23 by William Mandel
- 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/S273486567 - Comments: "Small fast moving insect-hunting warbler in the eucalyptus trees beside the restroom located between the kayak concession and the lower campground. Very specific pale gray head and chest with darker wings and yellow at the base of wing. Long tail with black band at the end, black down the center and sided with bright yellow. Two of us saw the female American redstart at Sepulveda Basin in the recent past and both ID'd independently that this bird was also a female Am. redstart. Very surprised to see it on the island. Tried to get a photo, but we weren't the group with the photographers."
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