Photos by Hugh Ranson (left to right) — Broad-billed Hummingbird, LeConte’s Sparrow, and Northern Shoveler. Birds observed just before 118th CBC
Greetings birders,
What a CBC day (12/30/23) we just had! It started out quite rainy, so the “owlers” had a tough time but cleared by early morning and gave us glorious weather the rest of the day. We were disappointed to cancel the boat for counting pelagic species but safety mandated this because of ocean swells and dangerous debris. Even with that, our preliminary count was 195. As the data are fully analyzed, this number could go up or down, but we are so grateful for all the intrepid and enthusiastic birders who made this count as successful as possible!
Thanks for your interest,
Libby Patten, Liz Muraoka, Glenn Kincaid, Conor McMahon, Linus Blomqvist and Mark Holmgren
SB CBC Coordinators
All CBC pages, with one exception, have not been updated for the 123rd (Dec 2022) Christmas Bird Count. The ‘County CBC’s’ page is partially updated.
However, much of the information is still relevant.
The 124th Audubon Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is just around the corner! The Santa Barbara CBC will be held on Saturday, December 30, 2023. We hope you’ll join us in making this another successful count. Fingers crossed for more rain but hoping for nice weather on count day.
The cutoff date for contacting us to join a CBC team is December 16th. After that you are welcome to bird on your own.
The evening compilation event will be 7:00 – 9:00 pm at the Unitarian Society (details here).
For information on how to conduct your count, please see the Reminders and Instruction pages
Thanks for your interest,
Liz Muraoka, Libby Patten and Glenn Kincaid, Mark Holmgren, Linus Blomqvist, Conor McMahon and Steve Hovey
SB CBC Coordinators
