Annual Bird Counting in SB County and Carpinteria

Carpinteria held its 15^th Annual Christmas Bird Count on December 14. Within their prescribed 15-mile radius area and their allotted 24-hour period, the group counted 170 different bird species, including shore birds. The bird count is all volunteers; they had 60 people counting this year.

Look for MJ’snews correspondentJoanne A Calitri’s annual SB County Christmas Bird Count coming up! This year was their 125^th year doing the count, held January 4 through January 7. Count coordinators are Libby Patten, Glenn Kincaid, Linus Blomqvist, Conor McMahon, Steve Hovey, Andy McGrath,and Wim van Dam. They were specifically looking for the following birds: Ross’s goose, greater scaup, common merganser, northern pygmy-owl, northern saw-whet owl, red-naped sapsucker, mountain chickadee, violet-green swallow, northern rough-winged swallow, mountain bluebird, Cassin’s finch, red crossbill, lark sparrow, vesper sparrow, Baltimore oriole, tricolored blackbird, hermit warbler, rose-breasted grosbeak, and the brown creeper. 

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