Date: 11/17/25 2:35 pm From: Benjamin Byerly via groups.io <benbyerly...> Subject: Re: [sbcobirding] Goleta Beach gulls
This afternoon the full flock is pretty much as Dave summarized yesterday.
I couldn’t pull out Thayers. There are at least 20 Bonapartes hanging out
in the surf and wrack. One is injured which I reported to SBWCN although
it’s not easily accessed as it’s on the other side of the slough mouth.
Benjamin L. Byerly
On Sun, Nov 16, 2025 at 15:14 Dave Compton via groups.io <davcompton60=
<gmail.com...> wrote:
> There are a lot of gulls at Goleta Beach today (Sunday, November 16), at
> least by southern SB County standards. The variety was pretty good,
> although at least three of the eight species I saw (Thayer's Iceland Gull,
> Glaucous-winged Gull, and Bonaparte's Gull) were represented by just one
> individual, in each case a 1st-cycle bird. Most of the birds were around
> the slough mouth or farther east. It would be worth checking this location
> periodically for rare birds, as long as the large flock is around.
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> Dave Compton
> Santa Barbara
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