Archive for March, 2020

Online Carpinteria Birdwatchers meeting Thursday, April 2, 2020

Tuesday, March 31st, 2020

Due to public health concerns we at Carpinteria Birdwatchers have temporarily cancelled our in-person meetings and group outings. Instead we will be holding online meetings via Zoom teleconference and YouTube livestream.

The first meeting will take place this Thursday, April 2, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The topic is Ocean Birds: seawatches, pelagic birding, shearwaters, albatrosses, auklets, skuas, and more.

The link to attend the Carpinteria Birdwatchers meeting via Zoom will be sent by E-mail before the meeting. To attend the meeting just follow the link in that E-mail at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 2.

The YouTube livestream of the meeting is here:

More details about viewing options for the meeting are on the following page:

https://www.carpwithoutcars.org/carpinteria-birdwatchers-online-meeting-instructions/

I hope to see you on Thursday. Thanks!

— John Callender

Links for videos I plan to show during the meeting:

https://youtu.be/Hwu7CK9U1J8 - my video from the Island Packers pelagic trip on March 8, 2020

https://youtu.be/5Z63PpF8b-c - Robert Flood’s video of Black-vented Shearwaters

https://youtu.be/_3EWfgmM0J0 - Robert Flood’s video of Pink-footed Shearwaters

https://youtu.be/8Z96pdeFDDY - J Rothe’s video of a Sooty Shearwater

https://youtu.be/557W8YbVlQQ - Erik Bruhnke’s video of a Parasitic Jaeger

https://youtu.be/yG4mLKN6LT0 - channelislandsnps’s video on the black rat eradication program on Anacapa Island