For our next group outing I thought we’d head back to Toro Canyon Park. It’s spring, so the nesting birds are singing and migrants are coming through. It should be a lot of fun. Special note: Due to a schedule conflict this month’s outing will be one week later than usual, on the fourth Saturday…

Join us on Thursday, April 17, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. for the next Carpinteria Birdwatchers meeting. This month, we’ll explore the social dimension of birding. Birding has always been a community activity, but today’s digital tools create new opportunities and challenges, from properly documenting a rarity in eBird to giving clear directions when sharing bird…

Update: You can see the birds we saw (including some lovely photos by Sue Cook) in our eBird checklist. For this month’s outing we have a special treat: Carpinteria Birdwatchers members Sally and Chris Van Der Kar have invited us to join them at their Carpinteria ranch! We’ll have a chance to see their feeders,…

Our next Carpinteria Birdwatchers meeting will be a two-part meeting. In part one we’ll talk about BirdTalk, Steve Colwell’s amazing iPhone app that lets you talk to eBird, recording sightings without taking your hands off your binoculars or your eyes off the bird. In part two we’ll talk about spring migration: What birds are showing…

For this month’s meeting we’ll visit a spot in Carpinteria that’s become very popular with visiting birders in the last few months: The Carpinteria Sanitary District offices on 6th Street, where an adult male Painted Bunting has been seen for the second winter in a row. Join us there on Saturday, February 22, 2025 at…

Because of a schedule crunch at my end there will be no Carpinteria Birdwatchers meeting this month. I apologize for dropping the ball; we’ll resume next month with a meeting on Thursday, March 20. I look forward to seeing you then. — John Callender

This Thursday evening I will be giving a talk about sea-level rise in Carpinteria at the Carpinteria Community Library. The talk is part of the “Wild Things” series sponsored by the library, and will draw on my experience as a former member of the Carpinteria Planning Commission and the city’s General Plan Update Advisory Committee….

Carpinteria Birdwatchers member and Coastal View News columnist Nancy Baron wrote a great piece on our recent CBC: Carpinteria Christmas Bird Count: Celebrating our feathered neighbors. You can read the article at that link, or view the online “e-edition” with all the photos. Thank you to Nancy, the Coastal View News, and all the participants…

Important Update: Because of a schedule conflict I need to change the date for this month’s outing. We’ll still be going to Carpinteria State Beach, but one week later, on Saturday, February 1. We’ll meet at the south end of Linden Avenue at 8 a.m. to look at gulls and whatever else we can find….

For our next Carpinteria Birdwatchers meeting we’ll be returning to one of my favorite topics — gulls! I’ve been thinking lately about how to learn gull identification, and have an idea for a different approach that I think might be fun. Join us and see if you agree! The meeting will be held Thursday, January…