Month: May 2022

Over the past week birdwatchers in the area have been noticing brown pelicans showing up in places they aren’t normally seen, like inland lakes. Now the following message has been sent out by the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network: Over the weekend, SBWCN experienced an unusually large influx of brown pelican patients. In just two…

For this month’s meeting we’ll visit the breeding snowy plovers at Carpinteria State Beach. This year there have been no fewer than five nesting attempts (so far), so there should be plenty of fun plover action. Location: Carpinteria State Beach, including the snowy plover nest site east of Carpinteria Creek Date/time: Saturday, May 21, 2022, 8:00 a.m….

Exciting things have been happening with the snowy plovers at Carpinteria State Beach. I’m going to do my best to summarize the current situation, but I haven’t visited the beach as often as I did for last summer’s nesting, so I’m a little fuzzy on some of the details. I’ll do my best to tighten…

I was surprised when I realized we’ve never had a meeting specifically on warblers. We’ve talked about individual species a few times, but never covered them as a group. For this month’s meeting we’ll correct that by discussing 9 of the most commonly seen warbler species in Santa Barbara County. (Part two, covering rarer warblers,…