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Broad-billed Hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 16, 2024 13:55 by Alexander Yan
- 182 Cypress Ave, Cayucos (private residence), San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.902578&<ll...>,-120.902578 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S202712899 - Comments: "Continuing at the apartment feeder. Sounds different than Anna’s. Blue chin and tail. Broad orange bill. Otherwise green. Very aggressive and most Anna’s fled at the sight of it"
Broad-billed Hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris) (1)
- Reported Nov 16, 2024 09:19 by Nick & Jane
- Broad-billed Hummingbird feeder location, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.903142&<ll...>,-120.903142 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S202707907 - Comments: "Continuing rarity at upstairs home patio feeder (feeder attached to a stick and viewed from public sidewalk). Flew in briefly before darting off to a pepper tree and possibly another feeder (two other area homes had feeders). Green crown/head, deep blue throat that bled onto chest. Turquoise cheeks, chest, and belly. Green shoulders and back. White lower belly patch, and also white spot behind eye. Red-orange bill with black tip, grey wings. Soft staccato call reminiscent of a quiet Ruby-crowned Kinglet’s typewritery notes. Photos."
Broad-billed Hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 16, 2024 07:40 by Reef Comer
- Cypress Ave, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.9031467&<ll...>,-120.9031467 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S202686834 - Comments: "Found almost immediately upon arrival by hearing its ruby-crowned kinglet-like calls. Brilliant green upperside, sapphire blue throat extending onto breast, bright red broad-based bill, pale grayish undertail coverts, black wings, and dark broad tail. Thought I saw it flick its tail a few times in flight. Perched in pepper tree when I left. Didn’t want to hang around too long. Beauty!"
Savannah Sparrow (Large-billed) (Passerculus sandwichensis rostratus/atratus) (2)
- Reported Nov 16, 2024 09:48 by Nick & Jane
- Morro Bay SP--Marina/Boardwalk Trail, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8418006&<ll...>,-120.8418006 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S202705035 - Comments: "Continuing. Darker, streaker, almost blurry-looking streaks on back, pale supercilium, large pink bill. One appeared to have a slightly larger bill and more yellow on the lore. Photos"
Hooded Oriole (Icterus cucullatus) (1)
- Reported Nov 16, 2024 11:00 by Kaaren Perry
- Morro Bay yard, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.844846&<ll...>,-120.844846 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S202697993 - Comments: "Observed flying from hummingbird feeder and then perched atop a nearby flowering small tree. Long decurved bill, underparts entirely yellow, upper parts olive, wings a bit darker showing two thin white wing bars. Long dark tail. This bird has been playing peekaboo with me for the past few weeks while briefly visiting our hummingbird feeder. Today was the first chance I had to observe the entire bird in full view."
Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia) (2)
- Reported Nov 16, 2024 09:03 by Pair of Wing-Nuts
- San Simeon SP, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-121.1235286&<ll...>,-121.1235286 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S202737997 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Both birds observed at the same time from the camp road that runs behind campsite #90 were males with bold black and patterning above, white supercilum, dark lores, back auriculars, lower white eye-arcs, long, slightly curved, sharp-tipped bill, streaked/black throat patch, black streaking on sides, white belly, and black-spotted untertail. Only one of the two birds vocalized."
Tennessee Warbler (Leiothlypis peregrina) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 14, 2024 09:58 by Tom Edell
- Morro Bay SP--Campground, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8387738&<ll...>,-120.8387738 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S202700597 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Fall bird in bottlebrush and oaks here: (35.347399, -120.836668). Very skulky and active, never sat still. Calling every once in a while. The warbler had a grayish neck and crown with contrasting bright olive green above and yellowish underparts with whitish undertail coverts.
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Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum) (1)
- Reported Nov 16, 2024 09:03 by Pair of Wing-Nuts
- San Simeon SP, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-121.1235286&<ll...>,-121.1235286 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S202737997 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Dull plumaged bird with bold supercilium, dark cap, dark lores, pale eye-arcs, dark eye-line, streaking on lower breast and flanks with yellow undertail coverts. Only photo opp was back-lit making for a much-to-be-desired image. Bird was observed on south-side of creek road bridge linking campgrounds not far from where the boardwalk meets the camp road."
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