For this month’s group outing we’ll put our warbler-ID skills to use by visiting a famous local warbler-watching site: the 8th Street footbridge over Carpinteria Creek. Join us for a fun, low-energy outing to see what warblers (and other birds) we can see and hear. Location: 8th Street footbridge in Carpinteria Date/time: Saturday, August 20,…

You’ll recall that in last May’s meeting we talked about the nine most-common warbler species in Santa Barbara county. This month we’ll cover a dozen more species you can see locally if you play your cards right: rarities. Join us at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 18, 2022 via Zoom or YouTube livestream for a…

Just a quick note to mention that due to a combination of people being on vacation and me (John) being sick (though I’m getting better), we will not have an official Carpinteria Birdwatchers group outing this month. Look for an update in the blog as to our next group outing, which should take place in…

This month’s Carpinteria Birdwatchers Zoom meeting will take place a little later in the month than we’ve been having them. The meeting will be on the evening of Thursday, July 28, 2022, at 6:30 pm Pacific, and will feature special guest Jenny Slaughter. Jenny will talk about two topics: An update on the status of…

For this month’s meeting we’ll visit Franklin Park in Carpinteria. This small city park features a variety of trees and other vegetation, and is very popular with birds. When I looked in eBird I saw that there has never been a checklist submitted from the park during the month of June. We’ll fix that! 🙂…

At this month’s Carpinteria Birdwatchers Zoom meeting we’ll cover two topics: the latest news on the historic nesting of snowy plovers at Carpinteria State Beach, and an overview of Santa Barbara County’s wrens. As part of the wren discussion we’ll also have a brief tutorial on Merlin Sound ID, a wonderful tool for identifying bird…

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,…