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Red-naped Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus nuchalis) (1)
- Reported Oct 22, 2025 07:14 by Tim Miller
- Sedgwick Reserve (restricted access), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.0405478&<ll...>,-120.0405478 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S280871887 - Comments: "Red on throat, not breast. Red wasn’t bordered on sides with black (as in yellow-bellied). Head not extensively red (as in red-breasted). Seen in afternoon in pepperwood trees by pickleball court"
Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1)
- Reported Oct 22, 2025 08:00 by Barbara Millett
- 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/S280866718 - Comments: "Continuing bird at Whittier Pond. Kingbird with notched tail, bright yellow on belly continuing up to breast. Light gray head. Dark mask through eye, long bill."
Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) (1)
- Reported Oct 22, 2025 08:19 by Eunice Schroeder
- 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/S280835728 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing, first found by Marina Suh on 10/20. From the yard between Stow House and the railroad museum (34.442669,-119.852122) heard mewing call and then saw in the cotoneaster just to the south. Perched on top of the shrub eating fruit, then flew NW to the foliage just east of the museum. Gray with black cap and rufous UTC. Photos."
Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) (1)
- Reported Oct 22, 2025 07:18 by John Callender
- 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/S280826644 - Comments: "Continuing in the area between Stow House and the railroad museum. Seen briefly but well through binoculars at a distance of about 20 feet, a medium-sized slate-gray bird with a black cap and a dark beak that in shape and size was similar to that of a Northern Mockingbird. When I saw it the bird was skulking in thick vegetation near the ground. Then it flew low across the lawn to a new clump of vegetation, from which location I twice heard it give its characteristic "mew" vocalization. I was unable to refind the bird visually or photograph it, unfortunately."
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