December 5 The GRAY HAWK was seen hunting the vacant lot from the Paul Franz Construction building (west side) along Santa Clause Ln. today between 2:55 - 3:10pm when I had to leave. Larry Ballard reports he saw the bird at 3:30pm atop the "no trespassing" sign here. Driving back into Carpinteria at 4:45pm I stopped back at this location and the hawk was still hunting from the roof I had it around 3pm. Both Larry and I saw the hawk go to the ground here after prey. At around 2pm, while looking for the hawk from the train tracks behind Padaro Beach Grill I had four AMER. WHITE PELICAN flying east in line formation over the flower nursery's across the highway to the north. The pelicans briefly joined two Turkey Vulture in catching a thermal and kettling before continuing east. Eric Culbertson Carpinteria |
v1.35 - 11/22/22 - Finally rewrote code to handle new Groups.IO web structure v1.30 - 01/05/16 - Revamped cloud logic, optimized database queries, linked to eBird rarities. v1.23 - 12/08/11 - Added direct link to CBRC records. v1.22 - 12/03/11 - Corrected GMT offsets on dates. Added last 5 posts at top. v1.21 - 11/24/11 - Added direct link to range map for NA birds. v1.2 - 11/23/11 - Greatly improved graphing technology - separates month vs. year by posts. Added species auto-complete functionality. v1.14 - 11/22/11 - Added cloud bubble for common thread topics. v1.13 - 11/22/11 - Added integrated photos where available. v1.12 - 11/22/11 - Added multiple input boxes for additional refinement, negative search criteria (eg. -keyword). v1.11 - 11/22/11 - Added banding code, species look-up. Also direct link to recent eBird observations. v1.1 - 11/22/11 - Added 'date' functionality. Shows top 'month/year' combinations for a query. Restrict results to that 'month/year'. v1.0 - 11/21/11 - Initial version coded. Currently archiving 'lacobirds' and 'calbirds'.