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Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1)
- Reported Dec 14, 2025 10:45 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/S288634905 - Comments: "very light throat, yellow breast to throat, no gray, large dark bill, making Tropical kingbird twittery call (Cassin's was right near it making the burry Cassin's sound)"
Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1)
- Reported Dec 14, 2025 15:49 by Eric Culbertson
- Padaro Lane, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.5743942&<ll...>,-119.5743942 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S288654809 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Found in sycamore across from entrance to loon point public beach access parking lot entrance at 4:18pm. It remained here mostly preening. Made some forays at 4:38, 4:40 to opposite side of Padaro Lane. But returned to this spot and looked like it was going to go to roost here. Defended the area from a Cassin’s kingbird, twittered several times and flew east at 4:49pm. A large kingbird, brilliant yellow below, white in chin, dark above that in face crown. Large bill. Slightly forked tail. High twittering call heard. The bird was heard calling from this area around 8:15am this morning and flew through the area headed northwest at 8:35am."
Grace's Warbler (Setophaga graciae) (1)
- Reported Dec 14, 2025 16:17 by Craig Murray
- 4414 Catlin Cir, Carpinteria US-CA (34.4065,-119.5275), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.527545&<ll...>,-119.527545 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S288651405 - Comments: "Continuing bird found by John Callender. Small warbler with yellow throat and chest. Yellow eyebrow over dark eyestripe. Good look in binos but was camera shy for me. With yellow rumps in pine tree NW corner of Catlin Circle."
Grace's Warbler (Setophaga graciae) (1)
- Reported Dec 15, 2025 07:09 by Spencer Seale
- 4430 Catlin Cir, Carpinteria US-CA (34.4053,-119.5265), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.526521&<ll...>,-119.526521 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S288714875 - Comments: "Continuing bird found by John Callender on 12/12. Found with a large Yellow-rumped Warbler flock in a mature pine adjacent to the Water District along Santa Ynez Ave (34.40527, -119.52652). Warbler showed a yellow throat and supraloral area, slaty-gray upperparts, two white wing bars, and whitish underparts with streaked flanks. Silent during observation. Photo to add."
Grace's Warbler (Setophaga graciae) (1)
- Reported Dec 14, 2025 11:45 by Daniel Farrar
- Carpinteria Valley Memorial Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.525857&<ll...>,-119.525857 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S288656192 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing. Initially I came across the bird in the pines in the apartment complex here: 34.4060228, -119.5273618. It flew to the pine at the end of Caitlin here: 34.4066178, -119.5276059. Gray back, bright yellow throat and supraloral, two wing bars. Photos."
Grace's Warbler (Setophaga graciae) (1)
- Reported Dec 14, 2025 14:00 by Eunice Schroeder
- Catlin Circle, Carpinteria, CA, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.5274413&<ll...>,-119.5274413 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S288646751 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing, found by John Callender on Fri 12/12/25. Actively foraging in the canopy of the large pine at the northwest corner of Catlin Circle. Bright yellow throat and upper breast, broad yellow supraloral, gray uppers, black streaking on flanks, two white wingbars. Photos."
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