Update Sunday 11/17 Are you are planning to speak at the hearing? If so, please arrive at 9:00 a.m. on Nov. 20! The Strauss FEIR will be first on the hearing agenda. County staff and the project applicant will speak, immediately followed by SBAS. The Commissioners would like all SBAS speakers to present consecutively. Speaker time allotments… Read more »
The Cornell Chronicle reports the nearly 30% of birds in the US & Canada have vanished since 1970. Read the Cornell Chronicle article at this link: http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/09/nearly-30-birds-us-canada-have-vanished-1970
Tired of having to look at the website or email blast about when SBAS events are scheduled? Tired of entering our events into your device or desktop calendar? Well I have discovered there is a way to get our events automatically.
On May 19, volunteers from Baja California up to Washington state participated in the biannual survey of the Brown Pelican. For Santa Barbara County, there were count teams at Santa Barbara Harbor and Santa Maria River Estuary. The Santa Barbara Harbor team of Tom Beland, Joan Kent, Laurel Luby, Libby Patten, and Cathy Peterson counted 272… Read more »
Upon awakening to the alarm at 3 a.m., I wondered out loud what in the heck did I get myself into? Going back several weeks, Dolores had received an interesting proposal from an East Coast birder. Anthony and his wife Nicole were looking to find four species to further complete his list. All could be… Read more »
