Date: 11/8/24 10:36 am From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...> Subject: [slocobirding] [eBird Alert] San Luis Obispo County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:
- Common Gallinule (1 report)
- Pectoral Sandpiper (1 report)
- Black Skimmer (1 report)
- Chipping Sparrow (6 reports)
- Fox Sparrow (Thick-billed) (1 report)
- Fox Sparrow (Slate-colored) (1 report)
- Pine Warbler (7 reports)
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Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger) (4) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 07, 2024 10:00 by Robbie & Bob Revel
- Morro Bay Estuary (use more specific location(s) when possible), San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8501072&<ll...>,-120.8501072 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S201713704 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "4 flying in formation near oyster farms, south of Grassy Island. Seen from Sub Sea Tours, Dos Osos. Photos to be added."
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 07, 2024 09:35 by Petra Clayton
- Mentone Basin Park, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6132531&<ll...>,-120.6132531 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S201721699 - Media: 8 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing since 11/6/24 (K.H.)
Finely streaked brown crown; gray face with pale supercilium, black line through the eye; unmarked underparts; buff-colored back with dark streaks; white wing bar; small pink bill; pink legs."
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) (1)
- Reported Nov 07, 2024 06:49 by Pair of Wing-Nuts
- Mentone Basin Park, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6132531&<ll...>,-120.6132531 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S201727767 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing bird (11.06.2024) had brown crown with faint, pale streaking, pale gray supercilium and cheeks, brown eye-line from bill to nape that bisected white eye-arcs, with pink bill, faint mustache bordering white throat and was gray underneath from breast to undertail, streaked brown above with pink legs and feet. Observed at eye level in pines in SE corner of park along Mentone Avenue."
Fox Sparrow (Thick-billed) (Passerella iliaca [megarhyncha Group]) (1)
- Reported Nov 07, 2024 09:55 by Jay Carroll
- West Cuesta Ridge, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.661226&<ll...>,-120.661226 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S201788405 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Gray head and back contrasting with reddish-brown wings and tail, large conical bill; call note “chirpier” than the flat “smack” typical of Sooty group; photos."
Fox Sparrow (Slate-colored) (Passerella iliaca [schistacea Group]) (1)
- Reported Nov 07, 2024 09:55 by Jay Carroll
- West Cuesta Ridge, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.661226&<ll...>,-120.661226 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S201788405 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Gray head and back contrasting with brown wings and tail, diffuse triangular spotting on breast and sides, conical bill noticeably smaller than “Thick-billed” group and showing yellowish base on lower mandible; photos."
Pine Warbler (Setophaga pinus) (1)
- Reported Nov 07, 2024 14:30 by Reef Comer
- Mentone Basin Park, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6132531&<ll...>,-120.6132531 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S201730587 - Comments: "Fantastic find by KH! Thankfully Owen Slater got me on the drabber of the two birds not long after I arrived. Associating with yellow rumps in pines at NE section of park. Might have seen the brighter individual once very briefly, but couldn’t confirm. Fairly large, stout billed warbler with weak lemon yellow on throat and most of underside, yellow spectacles, greenish face, back, and crown, 2 bold white wingbars, and whitish belly and undertail coverts. White tail corners seen well in flight. Great looks at this bird, but eventually disappeared into pines and unable to relocate, despite thoroughly searching every tree multiple times. State bird!"
Pine Warbler (Setophaga pinus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 07, 2024 09:35 by Petra Clayton
- Mentone Basin Park, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6132531&<ll...>,-120.6132531 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S201721699 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing since 11/6/24 (K.H.)
First observed by the group at 9:36 a.m.(photo #1) in the southeastern corner of the park in a mixed flock, agitated by a Bluetooth speaker hanging in a pine tree, amplifying a prolonged mobbing call.
After the group left, the bird was relocated at 10:41 a.m. in a pine tree across the basin in the northeastern corner of the park. (No playback was used). (Photos #2, 3, 4).
Yellow throat, breast and belly; whitish undertail; olive wash on the flanks; olive crown, cheeks, nape and wings; two white wingbars; white eye arcs."
Pine Warbler (Setophaga pinus) (2) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 07, 2024 07:05 by The Spotting Twohees
- Mentone Basin Park, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6132531&<ll...>,-120.6132531 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S201693585 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Both birds seen mid level to higher in the pines in the SE corner of the park. Very active and moving around. Good views with binoculars but hard to photograph. Bright yellow throat and duller yellow chest. White undertail coverts and white under tail. Top of head looked greenish. Wings were darker with two white wing bars. Second bird not as bright yellow as bird #1."
Pine Warbler (Setophaga pinus) (1)
- Reported Nov 07, 2024 06:49 by Pair of Wing-Nuts
- Mentone Basin Park, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6132531&<ll...>,-120.6132531 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S201727767 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing bird (11.06.2024) was dull olive/yellow on back, nape, head, face, breast and sides, bright yellow on throat, with white belly and undertail coverts and outer black under-tail tips. This bird had faint, blurry streaking on breast and sides, a dark eye-line extending from from bill to behind eye bisecting yellow eye arcs, dark auriculars, grayish wings with bold, white pairs of wing-bars and yellowish bottoms to the feet. Observed in mid to high pine canopy in SE corner of park along Mentone Avenue."
Pine Warbler (Setophaga pinus) (2) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 06, 2024 08:38 by Herb Elliott
- Mentone Basin Park, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6132531&<ll...>,-120.6132531 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S201634198 - Media: 6 Photos
- Comments: "Both birds had unstreaked upperparts, two pale wing-bars, dark legs, relatively stout bills; dark streaking on breast and flanks, and white from lower belly through undertail-coverts.
The first bird I saw looked similar to the nearby Yellow-rumped Warblers without the patch of yellow on rump and sides of upper breast, and no streaking on back.
The second bird had olive-green upperparts, yellow throat with more contrastingly darker streaking on breast and flanks.
Both birds were found earlier this morning by K.H. - great find!"
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