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Where to find Bufflehead in January
within 25 miles of Santa Barbara County, CA, USA

This page shows which locations in the selected region historically had the highest probability of a checklist including Bufflehead in January. Because some locations may be undersampled, the results are sorted based on a confidence score which takes into account how many samples are available. The bar chart shows how the probability of observing this species varies over the year.

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Rank	Map	Pics	Location	Distance	Observed	Sampled	Frequency	Confidence
1			Santa Maria Mesa Road Ponds	10.6	32	35	91.4%	77.6%
2			Mission Hills WTP	11.0	9	9	100.0%	70.1%
3			Pismo Creek mouth	22.5	65	95	68.4%	58.5%
4			Lopez Lake	23.9	47	68	69.1%	57.4%
5			Vandenberg Village--golf course The Mission Club (restricted)	9.1	8	9	88.9%	56.5%
6			Oso Flaco Lake (not for beach/ocean)	15.8	216	356	60.7%	55.5%
7			A St. ponds	5.9	21	30	70.0%	52.1%
8			Ira Lease Park	22.7	4	4	100.0%	51.0%
9			Pier Ave beach entrance	20.5	6	7	85.7%	48.7%
10			Vandenberg Village--Moonglow Rd. Basin	10.8	14	21	66.7%	45.4%
11			Santa Maria River Estuary (SBA Co.)	13.6	25	50	50.0%	36.6%
12			Ocean Beach County Park	13.3	64	146	43.8%	36.0%
13			Arroyo Grande Creek mouth	20.1	8	15	53.3%	30.1%
14			Pismo Beach Golf Course (Restricted Access)	21.9	8	16	50.0%	28.0%
15			Guadalupe Pasture (restricted access)	11.2	8	18	44.4%	24.6%
16			Santa Maria Country Club (restricted access)	4.4	12	34	35.3%	21.5%
17			Chumash Park--Pismo Beach	22.3	2	3	66.7%	20.8%
18			Punchbowl Pond (restricted access)	6.4	1	1	100.0%	20.7%
19			Pismo SB--Oceano Campground	20.6	46	209	22.0%	16.9%
20			Santa Maria River Estuary (SLO Co.)	13.8	3	7	42.9%	15.8%
21			Fairway Drive x A Street, Santa Maria	4.8	3	7	42.9%	15.8%
22			Mentone Basin Park	20.7	7	24	29.2%	14.9%
23			North Blosser Rd. Flood Control Pond	9.4	4	13	30.8%	12.7%
24			Santa Maria WTP	7.5	6	24	25.0%	12.0%
25			Los Alamos--Wastewater Treatment Plant (8690 Bell Street)	11.3	4	15	26.7%	10.9%
26			Pismo SB--Grand Ave. access	21.7	7	35	20.0%	10.0%
27			Oceano County Park	20.4	12	71	16.9%	9.9%
28			Mesa Road Trilogy	13.5	1	2	50.0%	9.5%
29			Vandenberg Space Force Base (formerly VAFB)--Lake Canyon Ponds (restricted access)	9.3	1	2	50.0%	9.5%
30			Elm Street Park/Soto Sports Complex	20.4	1	2	50.0%	9.5%
31			Jim May Park (fmr River Oaks Park)	9.2	9	56	16.1%	8.7%
32			Santa Ynez River at Santa Rosa Road	22.2	3	13	23.1%	8.2%
33			Pismo Beach Pier	22.9	4	32	12.5%	5.0%
34			River Park (SBA Co.)	13.2	3	28	10.7%	3.7%
35			Meadow Creek/Monarch Butterfly Preserve	22.1	7	102	6.9%	3.4%
36			Pismo SB--North Beach Campground	22.2	3	33	9.1%	3.1%
37			Pismo Beach--town area	23.1	1	6	16.7%	3.0%
38			Jack O'Connell Park	10.9	5	74	6.8%	2.9%
39			Black Road pasture	6.3	2	21	9.5%	2.7%
40			Laguna County Sanitation District--WTP (restricted access)	4.2	1	10	10.0%	1.8%
41			Town Center	21.1	1	15	6.7%	1.2%
42			Oceano Dunes SVRA	18.0	1	16	6.2%	1.1%
43			Pismo Preserve	24.2	1	22	4.5%	0.8%
44			Jalama Beach County Park	23.2	1	29	3.4%	0.6%
45			Zaca Station Rd.	20.4	1	39	2.6%	0.5%
46			Waller Park	4.2	1	131	0.8%	0.1%