Date: 9/2/25 7:57 pm From: Nick Lethaby via groups.io <nlethaby...> Subject: [sbcobirding] North County
All,
To escape the "groundhog day" shorebirding at COPR, I headed up to N county today. At Ocean Park, I managed to eventually see the continuing Baird's Sandpipers and Red Knot. This the first time we have have heavily flooded saltmarsh at this location prior to winter and we may get really big numbers of dabbling ducks this winter at the SYRE. I already had 23 Pintails today. There were a few hundred Barn and Tree Swallows present early in the morning giving good looks but no Bank Swallows.
At the corral at the turn off into Ocean Park, there was a White-winged Dove.
Next up was the Santa Maria River Mouth. The main highlight here was a minimum of 11 Common Terns, a very high on-shore count these days. There were a couple of Eared Grebe pairs with young. A Wandering Tattler was out of place, hanging out with a Ruddy Turnstone.
Nick Lethaby Goleta, CA <nlethaby...> +1 805 284 6200
