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Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) (1)
- Reported Dec 21, 2025 17:40 by Paul Hughes
- Arroyo Quemada Lane, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.1102317&<ll...>,-120.1102317 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S289729634 - Comments: "Finishing a hike around Baron ranch. so birding was not my primary purpose. Observed approximately here 34.471511, -120.115968 just past the gate for the Baron Ranch trail. The owl was perched on power line and I had a good views as I was wearing a head torch. Medium sized owl, pale heavily streaked breast. Dark eye patches, no visible ear tuffs. Observed for approximately 10 seconds, before the bird made a single rasphy bark and flew to the east."
Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) (1)
- Reported Dec 21, 2025 12:03 by Mark Holmgren
- Ocean Beach County Park and Santa Ynez River Estuary, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6003785&<ll...>,-120.6003785 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S289641082 - Comments: "This bird twice circled over my head. This was at 6:19 AM. I saw only the outline of the bird from about 25 feet while it circled overhead. Medium-sized owl, much like a Long-eared owl in size and shape. The main identifying features were the vehemence of its response to playback and the setting I and the owl were in: estuarine and estuary upland."
Greater Pewee (Contopus pertinax) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Dec 22, 2025 13:00 by Sammy Cowell
- Ennisbrook Open Space, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.6226395&<ll...>,-119.6226395 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S289766673 - Media: 7 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing bird seen foraging in the euc grove approximately here: (34.4359921, -119.6188047). Large Contopus flycatcher with shaggy crest and bright orange mandible. Mostly silent, but did give some soft calls. Got some good photos of it eating a bee/wasp and a Monarch."
Greater Pewee (Contopus pertinax) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Dec 22, 2025 13:00 by Frank DeMartino
- Ennisbrook Open Space, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.6226395&<ll...>,-119.6226395 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S289782439 - Media: 7 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing bird seen foraging in the euc grove approximately here: (34.4359921, -119.6188047). Large Contopus flycatcher with shaggy crest and bright orange mandible. Mostly silent, but did give some soft calls. Got some good photos of it eating a bee/wasp and a Monarch."
Greater Pewee (Contopus pertinax) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Dec 22, 2025 13:00 by Carol Langford
- Ennisbrook Open Space, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.6226395&<ll...>,-119.6226395 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S289779599 - Media: 7 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing bird seen foraging in the euc grove approximately here: (34.4359921, -119.6188047). Large Contopus flycatcher with shaggy crest and bright orange mandible. Mostly silent, but did give some soft calls. Got some good photos of it eating a bee/wasp and a Monarch."
Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Dec 22, 2025 07:22 by Armando Aispuro
- Coal Oil Point, Devereux Beach, Sands Beach, and bluff trails, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8783064&<ll...>,-119.8783064 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S289703626 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "I heard a punctuating triplet chattery call that was unfamiliar around the oaks just inside the white gate to COPR (34.4107792, -119.8775882). I then saw a chunky bird fly to the palm tree above the white gate and got good looks at a female Summer Tanager; uniform dusky-yellow belly, vent and under-tail coverts with back and wings approaching a uniform olivaceous color. The face was also olive-yellow and the bill was large and robust. The color of the bill was dark gray with pale yellow fringes at the gape. It then flew towards the Campbell Mansion and I lost it in some Eucalyptus trees near the mansion. It was calling regularly during my 7 minute observation."
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