For our January outing we’ll visit what I’m calling the Lagunitas Bluffs Trail, a birdy section of the California Coastal Trail that connects Viola Fields at the Carpinteria Bluffs (where we’ll start and end our walk) with the coastal sage scrub habitat of the Rincon Nature Preserve to the east. It should be a lot…

Greetings Carpinteria birdwatchers! I hope you had a great holiday season. For our next online meeting I thought we’d do some sharing: what were your favorite birds or birding memories from 2022, and what are you looking forward to for birding in 2023? I’ll come prepared to talk about my own year behind and ahead,…

The 2022 Carpinteria Christmas Bird count is in the books, and what a count it was! More than 60 participants fanned out across our circle, and by the time we were done we had submitted more than 92 checklists and seen a preliminary total of 162 species, 4 more than the previous record. We had…

With less than a week to go I’m getting excited about next Saturday’s Carpinteria CBC. Some of the things I’m excited about: The weather forecast — Current predictions are for relatively good weather on count day, with light winds and a chance of some light rain moving in later in the day. Fingers crossed the…

Thank you for participating in the Carpinteria Christmas Bird Count (CBC). This year the Carpinteria CBC will take place on Saturday, December 17, 2022. Instructions for everyone Know your assignment — You should have been assigned an area to cover by the count’s organizers. If you’re unclear on where you’ll be birding on count day, or…

This year’s Carpinteria Christmas Bird Count (CBC) will take place on Saturday, December 17, 2022. If you’ve participated before and would like to do so again, or if you’re new to the count and want to give it a try, that’s great! You can sign up using the sign-up link below: Carpinteria Christmas Bird Count…

Apologies for the late notice, but with the holidays and the Christmas Bird Count season upon us I’ve fallen behind on organizing the regular meetings and outings of Carpinteria Birdwatchers. As a result I’ve decided to cancel the monthly Carpinteria Birdwatchers meeting and group outing for November and December, and concentrate instead on preparing for…

For our October outing we’ll visit Monte Vista Park, a fun city park with a variety of bird habitat in the northeast part of Carpinteria, north of the 101 freeway on Bailard Avenue. Details: Location: Monte Vista Park on Bailard Avenue in eastern CarpinteriaDate/time: Saturday, October 22, 2022, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.Details: Park on Bailard Avenue and…

For our next Carpinteria Birdwatchers meeting, special guest Linus Blomqvist will tell us about a project he’s recently been involved in, monitoring the movement of seabirds (mostly) from the remote and hard-to-reach Point Conception, the prominent headland that divides the waters of Southern California from the coastline to the north. Update: In part 2 of…

Those who have been following the saga of the Carpinteria snowy plovers know that they had a big year in 2022, with nine separate nesting attempts at the site just east of the mouth of Carpinteria Creek. State Park employees, lifeguards, campers, and volunteer snowy plover docents all helped out, keeping an eye on the…