Join us on Thursday, August 15, 2024, at 6:30 p.m., for the next meeting of Carpinteria Birdwatchers. This month’s meeting will focus on bird status and distribution, exploring how understanding bird occurrence patterns can make our identifications more accurate. Our special guest for this meeting will be Paul Lehman. Paul is the author of the…

For this month’s group outing we’ll see if we can find some flycatchers (and other birds) at a famous local birding spot: the 8th Street footbridge over Carpinteria Creek. Join us for a fun, low-energy outing to see what we can see and hear. As always, Carpinteria Birdwatchers outings are free and open to all…

Join us at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 18, for the next meeting of Carpinteria Birdwatchers. The meeting will take place online via Zoom and in person at the Carpinteria Library, and will consist of two parts: For more about our special guest Alex you can download the Winter 2023 edition of Santa Barbara Audubon’s…

Apologies for the late notice, but with summer travel upon us I’ve fallen behind on meeting preparation, and have decided not to try to have a Carpinteria Birdwatchers meeting or outing this month. We’ll go back to a regular meeting and outing schedule in July. Thanks everyone! — John Callender

For our May outing Carpinteria Birdwatchers will return to a favorite location: Santa Monica Creek off the west end of El Carro Lane in Carpinteria. The outing will take place Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 8 a.m. I (John Callender) will unfortunately be traveling that day, but Tom Beland has generously agreed to lead the…

Join us on Thursday, May 16, 2024, at 6:30 p.m., at the Carpinteria Library meeting room or online via Zoom for an engaging session on the corvids (crows, jays, and magpies) of Santa Barbara County. This charismatic and diverse group are known for their impressive cognitive abilities and complex social behaviors. Our focus will be…

For our next group outing we’ll return to a favorite spot: the Carpinteria Salt Marsh Nature Park. Join us on Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 8 a.m. to see what’s happening at the marsh. — John Callender As always, Carpinteria Birdwatcher outings are free and open to all ages and ability levels. Hope to see…

For this month’s Carpinteria Birdwatchers meeting we’ll have a discussion of a really neat tool for exploring eBird data: Steve Colwell’s BirdView web application. BirdView lets you drill down into eBird data in a staggering number of ways not directly supported by the eBird app and website, making it an extremely useful tool for finding…

Our next group outing will be a return to Toro Canyon Park. Spring migration is getting started, so it will be a great time to hone our awareness skills and see if we can detect some interesting birds. As always, Carpinteria Birdwatcher outings are free and open to all ages and ability levels. Hope to…

On March 21, 2024, at 6:30 p.m., we invite you to join us at the Carpinteria Library meeting room or online via Zoom for our next meeting, where we will cover two topics. Part one will cover Santa Barbara County birding resources. Special guest Jamie Chavez, creator of sbcobirding.com, administrator of the sbcobirding email list,…