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Common Poorwill (Phalaenoptilus nuttallii) (1)
- Reported Dec 28, 2025 19:00 by Cachuma CBC
- My driveway, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.05322&<ll...>,-120.05322 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S291012218 - Comments: "Continuing. Small, cryptic, checked body, looks like a stone. Two birds that visit my driveway each winter. Crouched on the drive as the car approaches, each flutters up at the last second."
Common Poorwill (Phalaenoptilus nuttallii) (1)
- Reported Dec 28, 2025 19:00 by Laura Baldwin
- My driveway, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.05322&<ll...>,-120.05322 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S291010805 - Comments: "Continuing. Small, cryptic, checked body, looks like a stone. Two birds that visit my driveway each winter. Crouched on the drive as the car approaches, each flutters up at the last second."
Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) (1)
- Reported Dec 28, 2025 09:00 by Bruce Hollingworth
- Guadalupe Waste water Plant, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.590299&<ll...>,-120.590299 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S290885502 - Comments: "At least 1 Vermillion Flycatcher regularly winters at Jack O'Connell Park/Guadalupe Wastewater Treatment Plant every year for several years. Too much activity at Jack O'Connell Park today so it was found across the fence at the WTP."
Swinhoe's White-eye (Zosterops simplex) (Exotic: Provisional) (1)
- Reported Dec 28, 2025 10:05 by Roger McWilliams
- Ennisbrook Open Space, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.6226395&<ll...>,-119.6226395 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S290859643 - Comments: "First observation here for me. My home at UC Irvine has had them many years, approximately since Chinese students started attending and perhaps cage-released."
Tennessee Warbler (Leiothlypis peregrina) (1)
- Reported Dec 27, 2025 07:49 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/S290999232 - Comments: "Continuing at the peanut butter feeder and also foraging in the tangerine tree. . Small warbler with gray green head, white eye brow and dark eyeliner, gray green uppers, whitish underparts and under tail."
Tennessee Warbler (Leiothlypis peregrina) (1)
- Reported Dec 27, 2025 07:49 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/S291008474 - Comments: "Continuing at the peanut butter feeder and also foraging in the tangerine tree. . Small warbler with gray green head, white eye brow and dark eyeliner, gray green uppers, whitish underparts and under tail."
Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra) (1)
- Reported Dec 28, 2025 11:58 by David Compton
- 6515 Pardall Rd, Goleta US-CA (34.4131,-119.8543), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.854342&<ll...>,-119.854342 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S290855938 - Comments: "Female type—all a slightly orangey yellow, with no wing bars and with a large, pale bill. First detected by voice. In iron bark eucalyptus at the IV/campus boundary."
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