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Brewer's Sparrow (Spizella breweri) (3)
- Reported Sep 30, 2025 08:53 by Matt Brady
- 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/S276584294 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Photos. Spizellas with weak face pattern lacking dark in the lores. Small bill, thin complete eye-ring. One below the first campground and two at the upper campground with a white-crowned sparrow flock."
Brewer's Sparrow (Spizella breweri) (3)
- Reported Sep 30, 2025 08:53 by Lucas Gaede
- 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/S276578709 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Photos. Spizellas with weak face pattern lacking dark in the lores. Small bill, thin complete eye-ring. One below the first campground and two at the upper campground with a white-crowned sparrow flock."
Brewer's Sparrow (Spizella breweri) (3)
- Reported Sep 30, 2025 08:53 by Spencer Seale
- 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/S276584271 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Photos. Spizellas with weak face pattern lacking dark in the lores. Small bill, thin complete eye-ring. One below the first campground and two at the upper campground with a white-crowned sparrow flock."
Brewer's Sparrow (Spizella breweri) (3)
- Reported Sep 30, 2025 08:53 by Peter Gaede
- 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/S276575611 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Photos. Spizellas with weak face pattern lacking dark in the lores. Small bill, thin complete eye-ring. One below the first campground and two at the upper campground with a white-crowned sparrow flock."
American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 30, 2025 10:49 by Conor McMahon
- San Jose Creek--North of Cathedral Oaks, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8107304&<ll...>,-119.8107304 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S276583127 - Comments: "Spiffy male (34.454473,-119.812109). Unmistakable, seen mostly from below overhead in canopy. Black above, mostly white below with orange on armpits/flanks and edges of tail. Silent. Tried unsuccessfully to digiscope."
Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 30, 2025 09:58 by Mark Holmgren
- Cachuma Lake - Jackrabbit Flat, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.94765&<ll...>,-119.94765 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S276554132 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Butt-bobbing warbler that spent much time on the ground and in low vegetation. I saw a gray-brown back and crown. White crescents above and below the eye. Dingy white superciliary line. White throat, dark streaks across a paler breast, belly whitish tinged with yellow. Undertail coverts yellow."
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