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Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii) (1)
- Reported May 07, 2025 09:59 by David Blue
- UCSB North Campus Open Space (formerly Ocean Meadows Golf Course), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8792197&<ll...>,-119.8792197 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S234351110 - Comments: "A small brownish empid with essentially no eye-ring. Seen just beyond the west end of the Marsh Trail at the Devereux Creek Trailhead where the trail heads south up the hill."
Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii) (1)
- Reported May 07, 2025 09:59 by Linda Blue
- UCSB North Campus Open Space (formerly Ocean Meadows Golf Course), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8792197&<ll...>,-119.8792197 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S234351111 - Comments: "A small brownish empid with essentially no eye-ring. Seen just beyond the west end of the Marsh Trail at the Devereux Creek Trailhead where the trail heads south up the hill."
Sage Thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus) (1)
- Reported May 07, 2025 09:59 by David Blue
- UCSB North Campus Open Space (formerly Ocean Meadows Golf Course), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8792197&<ll...>,-119.8792197 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S234351110 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "First observed here by Lynn Scarlett earlier this morning. Compared to a California Thrasher, this was a smaller thrasher, with a much shorter, thinner, and slightly down-curved bill. The upperparts were grayish brown with thin white wingbars, and the underparts had black streaking on the throat, breast, and flanks with a buffy wash on the belly and sides. Seen on the fence and the ground at the east side of the mesa where the trail splits near here: (34.4188742, -119.8785884)"
Sage Thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus) (1)
- Reported May 07, 2025 09:59 by Linda Blue
- UCSB North Campus Open Space (formerly Ocean Meadows Golf Course), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8792197&<ll...>,-119.8792197 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S234351111 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "First observed here by Lynn Scarlett earlier this morning. Compared to a California Thrasher, this was a smaller thrasher, with a much shorter, thinner, and slightly down-curved bill. The upperparts were grayish brown with thin white wingbars, and the underparts had black streaking on the throat, breast, and flanks with a buffy wash on the belly and sides. Seen on the fence and the ground at the east side of the mesa where the trail splits near here: (34.4188742, -119.8785884)"
Sage Thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus) (1)
- Reported May 07, 2025 07:45 by Lynn Scarlett
- UCSB North Campus Open Space (formerly Ocean Meadows Golf Course), Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8792197&<ll...>,-119.8792197 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S234315484 - Media: 6 Photos
- Comments: "on wood chip road running through meadow above the estuary and where the burrowing owl was released; upright posture, straight, fairly short bill, grayish back, streaky breast, yellow-orange eye (see photos)"
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