For our May outing we’ll revisit a fun and scenic location: the Rincon Bluffs Trail. This is the 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 Bluffs Nature Preserve to the east. Details:…

We’re delighted to announce that the next meeting of Carpinteria Birdwatchers will be a combined in-person and online event, taking place at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 18. Join us at the Carpinteria Community Library meeting room or via Zoom for an exciting session on birding in New Zealand! Our presenters for the evening will…

Our next group outing will be a return to Toro Canyon Park. Spring is in the air, so should be a great time to hear oak and chaparral birds singing in this quiet setting. As always, Carpinteria Birdwatcher outings are free and open to all ages and ability levels. Hope to see you there!

I’m very excited to announce that for the next meeting of Carpinteria Birdwatchers we will be returning to an in-person meeting format at the Carpinteria Community Library. The meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 20. Thank you to Tom Beland and Carpinteria Librarian Jody Thomas for making this possible. I’m very…

For this month’s outing I thought we’d head back to a place we’ve visited a few times before: The mouth of Carpinteria Creek in the Carpinteria State Beach campground. I’m especially hoping to look for Snowy Plovers on this outing. Yesterday (Saturday, February 11), in response to a report from Carpinteria Birdwatchers member Sally Gundlach,…

For our next online meeting we’ll focus on an adorably cute local species: Short-billed Gull (formerly known as Mew Gull). It’s not a bird that’s especially common in our area, but if you know what to look for it’s pretty easy to pick out from the others around it. I thought we’d start the meeting…

For our January outing we’ll visit the Rincon Bluffs Trail, a 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 Bluffs Nature Preserve to the east. It should be a lot of fun! Details:…

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…