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Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria) (1)
- Reported Oct 12, 2025 08:51 by Silvia Echeverria
- 93013, Carpinteria US-CA (34.3924,-119.4772), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.477237&<ll...>,-119.477237 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S279026320 - Comments: "Small white spots on the back all the way to the tail. Yellowish green legs with a slightly streaked breast then white. At the northwest corner of the lake. Bobbing motion up and down."
American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 11, 2025 14:30 by Kelly Krechmer
- Lake Los Carneros Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.84975&<ll...>,-119.84975 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S278795263 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Standing at the spillway, it suddenly popped out from the Reeds across the way it was unseen before and flew into the corner where I don’t have eyes on before I could get a picture. Found and photographed"
American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus) (1)
- Reported Oct 12, 2025 08:40 by William Pate
- Lake Los Carneros, Goleta US-CA 34.44067, -119.84734, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.84734&<ll...>,-119.84734 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S278956448 - Comments: "Like others have observed, saw it by where the fisher was this morning across from the dam around 8:30am. It was brown and looked identical to the pictures."
Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1)
- Reported Oct 12, 2025 09:14 by Alex Harman
- Lake Los Carneros Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.84975&<ll...>,-119.84975 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S278978605 - Comments: "Similar visually to CAKI, identified by call. Will add recordings. Edit: apparently the recordings didn’t save. Its call was a longer trill, in contrast to CAKI’s shorter “ch-beer”"
Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1)
- Reported Oct 12, 2025 11:31 by Alex Harman
- 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/S278989087 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Bright yellow breast compared to CAKI, forked tail. Lacking white outer tail feathers of WEKI. Didn’t vocalize. Photos."
Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis) (1)
- Reported Oct 12, 2025 09:20 by Justin Watts
- Lake Los Carneros Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.84975&<ll...>,-119.84975 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S278980849 - Comments: "(34.4432, -119.8502)
Bobbing along the ground in the mud of the damp lake bed. No photo, but obvious long pink legs and smudged streaking along dusky white belly."
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