Date: 11/15/25 8:21 pm
From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...>
Subject: [sbcobirding] [eBird Alert] Santa Barbara County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:

- Tropical Kingbird (4 reports)
- Vesper Sparrow (1 report)
- Tennessee Warbler (2 reports)

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Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1)
- Reported Nov 15, 2025 15:57 by Madison Moore
- 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/S284670062
- Comments: "Seen on the edge of the water perched on a stick/log. Yellow extending high up into the breast to the bottom of the throat and slight fork in the tail."

Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1)
- Reported Nov 15, 2025 14:47 by Chuhan Li
- 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/S284667199
- Comments: "Photos tba"

Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1)
- Reported Nov 15, 2025 14:47 by Chang Huan
- 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/S284669705
- Comments: "Photos tba"

Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1)
- Reported Nov 15, 2025 12:47 by David Blue
- 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/S284662712
- Comments: "Continuing bird near Whittier Pond. Light gray head with a darker ear patch, long heavy black bill, a bright yellow belly with the yellow extending up to the throat, and a long notched tail."

Vesper Sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus) (1)
- Reported Nov 12, 2025 12:15 by Mike Nelson
- Santa Cruz Island--Smugglers Road, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.557187&<ll...>,-119.557187
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S284611208
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "associating with horned larks on trail. eye ring and chestnut shoulder patch"

Tennessee Warbler (Leiothlypis peregrina) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 15, 2025 07:33 by Tom Beland
- LuBeeland, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.507798&<ll...>,-119.507798
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S284598747
- Comments: "Continuing on peanut butter feeder with Orange-crowns and Townsends. Small warbler with gray head. White eyebrow with black eye line. Olive green uppers and white belly and under tail."

Tennessee Warbler (Leiothlypis peregrina) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 15, 2025 07:33 by Laurel S Luby
- LuBeeland, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.507798&<ll...>,-119.507798
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S284599629
- Comments: "Continuing on peanut butter feeder with Orange-crowns and Townsends. Small warbler with gray head. White eyebrow with black eye line. Olive green uppers and white belly and under tail."

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