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*** Species Summary:

- Black-chinned Hummingbird (2 reports)
- Costa's Hummingbird (2 reports)
- Solitary Sandpiper (1 report)
- Craveri's Murrelet (2 reports)
- Vermilion Flycatcher (1 report)
- Eastern Kingbird (4 reports)
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (1 report)
- Golden-crowned Sparrow (3 reports)

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Black-chinned Hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) (1)
- Reported Sep 09, 2022 07:07 by Noah Gaines
- Noah's House near LLC, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.4425134 ,-119.8438311&ll=34.4425134,-119.8438311
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S118381253
- Comments: "Low mellow chip note. More slender than Annas with clean undersides and frequent tail pumping."

Black-chinned Hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) (3)
- Reported Sep 08, 2022 17:48 by Noah Gaines
- Noah's House near LLC, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.4425134 ,-119.8438311&ll=34.4425134,-119.8438311
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S118362468
- Comments: "Initially IDd but lower chip note. Two female and an immature male. Cleaner White below and More slender than Annas with distinctive tail bob/spread."

Costa's Hummingbird (Calypte costae) (1)
- Reported Sep 09, 2022 07:07 by Noah Gaines
- Noah's House near LLC, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.4425134 ,-119.8438311&ll=34.4425134,-119.8438311
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S118381253
- Comments: "continuing bird heard and seen. Small green and gray HB with short tail. Purple gorget growing in"

Costa's Hummingbird (Calypte costae) (1)
- Reported Sep 08, 2022 17:48 by Noah Gaines
- Noah's House near LLC, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.4425134 ,-119.8438311&ll=34.4425134,-119.8438311
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S118362468
- Comments: "Continuing immature male at feeders attempting to drive away other birds from his favorite spot. Small green and gray HB with short tail and growing in purple gorget."

Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria) (1)
- Reported Sep 09, 2022 08:35 by margeNdon thornton
- Lake Los Carneros Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.44322 ,-119.84975&ll=34.44322,-119.84975
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S118401009
- Comments: "Wading bird somewhat smaller that the Greater Yellowlegs, legs shorter and not as yellow as the Yellowlegs, but longer than a Spotted Sandpiper. Definite round white eyering."

Craveri's Murrelet (Synthliboramphus craveri) (2)
- Reported Sep 08, 2022 16:39 by Pat Dwyer
- Santa Barbara Channel (birds at sea only), Channel Islands National Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.1179353 ,-119.5191479&ll=34.1179353,-119.5191479
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S118359871
- Comments: "Reported by the Captian Joel. Captain thinks they have been pushed North because of the Pacific Storm approaching the San Diego cost. Excellent view with Binos flying low across the wave tops."

Craveri's Murrelet (Synthliboramphus craveri) (2)
- Reported Sep 08, 2022 16:37 by Joel Barrett
- Santa Barbara Channel (birds at sea only), Channel Islands National Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.1179353 ,-119.5191479&ll=34.1179353,-119.5191479
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S118385406
- Comments: "Similar to more common in winter Scrippss Murrelet. These had a much darker face with the black extending down below the eye to the base of the bill. There was no noticeable white feathers indenting before the eye. They sat as a pair with their tails cocked up reveling the bright white underside. When they flew it was directly away so underwing views were not possible."

Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) (1)
- Reported Sep 07, 2022 10:24 by Pat Dwyer
- Santa Cruz Island--Scorpion Harbor, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.0489615 ,-119.5560551&ll=34.0489615,-119.5560551
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S118390359
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Seen upon arrival to the Ranch House visitor center first impression was a VEFL. Took multiple photos as it flew around the farm equipment display. Compared it to a Pacific Slope Flycatcher in Merlin app but it never appeared to be accurate. Merlin Id it as a tropical kingbird but it was to small."

Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus) (1)
- Reported Sep 09, 2022 08:35 by margeNdon thornton
- Lake Los Carneros Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.44322 ,-119.84975&ll=34.44322,-119.84975
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S118401009
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "flycatcher with the black top sharply delineated from the white underside. There was a pair in a willow snag on the west side of the lake."

Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus) (1)
- Reported Sep 09, 2022 07:35 by David Blue
- Lake Los Carneros Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.44322 ,-119.84975&ll=34.44322,-119.84975
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S118401413
- Comments: "Continuing bird first photographed by Richard Block four days ago on September 5. Mostly seen perched 4 feet up in the reeds above the western edge of the beach in the north part of the lake. Best viewed from the short trail running south from above the beach on the northern edge of the lake. A large flycatcher with a large stout black bill, white underparts, dark gray upperparts with a blacker head down to below the eyes, and showing a broad white tip to the tail even from a distance."

Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus) (1)
- Reported Sep 09, 2022 07:32 by Noah Gaines
- Lake Los Carneros Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.44322 ,-119.84975&ll=34.44322,-119.84975
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S118379324
- Comments: "Kingbird with dark gray hood and dark grayish auricular patch clean white below with light gray on upper breast. two white wing bars and black tail with a white distal tip. Perched 6 feet above water and reeds seen from the eastern side of the lake looking west near the northern beach. Dark blunt thick Bill short for a Kingbird."

Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus) (1)
- Reported Sep 09, 2022 06:21 by John Callender
- Lake Los Carneros Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.44322 ,-119.84975&ll=34.44322,-119.84975
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S118392364
- Comments: "Continuing bird discovered in Richard Blocks photos from last Monday. In the large willows on the west shore of the lake. Later it flew down and perched in reeds at the western end of the beach at the northwest corner of the lake. Large flycatcher, black above, white below, with the white extending up into the lower half of the face. Broad white terminal tail band seen when the bird flew. Distant photos."

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus forficatus) (1)
- Reported Sep 07, 2022 10:24 by Pat Dwyer
- Santa Cruz Island--Scorpion Harbor, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.0489615 ,-119.5560551&ll=34.0489615,-119.5560551
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S118390359
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Seen in the vicinity of the Ranch House. Thought it was a Western Kingbird until I viewed the photo. Merlin Id is STFL which I agree with."

Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla) (1)
- Reported Sep 09, 2022 07:35 by David Blue
- Lake Los Carneros Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.44322 ,-119.84975&ll=34.44322,-119.84975
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S118401413
- Comments: "Continuing bird"

Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla) (1)
- Reported Sep 09, 2022 06:21 by John Callender
- Lake Los Carneros Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.44322 ,-119.84975&ll=34.44322,-119.84975
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S118392364
- Comments: "Continuing east of the dam. Photos."

Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla) (1)
- Reported Sep 08, 2022 07:55 by Susanne Meyer
- Lake Los Carneros Park, Santa Barbara, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=34.44322 ,-119.84975&ll=34.44322,-119.84975
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S118363227
- Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing bird foraging along the path East of the dam."

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