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Canada Goose (canadensis Group) (Branta canadensis [canadensis Group]) (1)
- Reported Jan 14, 2025 15:22 by Ann Stockert
- Avila Beach Golf Course Clubhouse/Pavilion and Mulligan’s Bar and Grill, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.736888&<ll...>,-120.736888 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209323407 - Comments: "*Rare. Only the 2nd I’ve (KH) seen in SLO county. One parvipes-type seen in large flock of CANGs here: (35.185567, -120.739274). Small pale-breasted CANG, about 1/2 the size of the moff/max feral stock. Bill smaller than moff/max stock as well, but very much a CANG (as opposed to CAGO) bill. Bill shape slightly more sloped than moff/max stock, like Lesser, so not a runt moff/max. Distant pics tba eventually."
Canada Goose (moffitti/maxima) (Branta canadensis moffitti/maxima) (68)
- Reported Jan 14, 2025 15:22 by Ann Stockert
- Avila Beach Golf Course Clubhouse/Pavilion and Mulligan’s Bar and Grill, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.736888&<ll...>,-120.736888 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209323407 - Comments: "*Expected. The feral genetically-murky moff/max CANG found widely across CA. In large goose flock."
Eurasian x American Wigeon (hybrid) (Mareca penelope x americana) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jan 14, 2025 10:00 by Nick & Jane
- Morro Bay Estuary (35.347, -120.826), San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8259092&<ll...>,-120.8259092 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209329407 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Continued male with red head and cream colored crown stripe. Cream coloration continued into lores a below front of eye and reddish-pink breast extended back into flanks. Presuming this is a hybrid and not an abnormal plumaged first winter male Eurasian Wigeon. (Photos)"
Eurasian x American Wigeon (hybrid) (Mareca penelope x americana) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jan 14, 2025 10:00 by Tom Edell
- Morro Bay Estuary (35.347, -120.826), San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8259092&<ll...>,-120.8259092 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209309718 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Continued male with red head and cream colored crown stripe. Cream coloration continued into lores a below front of eye and reddish-pink breast extended back into flanks. Presuming this is a hybrid and not an abnormal plumaged first winter male Eurasian Wigeon. (Photos)"
Barrow's Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) (1)
- Reported Jan 14, 2025 14:35 by Nick & Jane
- San Luis Obispo Creek Lagoon, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.7364416&<ll...>,-120.7364416 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209326203 - Media: 8 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing. Found yesterday by two birders. Went to the lagoon and spotted several goldeneyes diving out near golf bridge (viewed from street bridge at south end of lagoon). The duck had a small yellow-orange bill with a dark brownish tip and light brown wash on base of bill. Its head was steeper than surrounding goldeneyes. Photos."
Barrow's Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) (1)
- Reported Jan 14, 2025 12:40 by Mike Bush
- San Luis Obispo Creek Lagoon, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.7364416&<ll...>,-120.7364416 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209301186 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Seen from the roadway bridge with two Common Goldeneyes in the distance under the golf cart bridge.
All-yellow bill differed from yellow tip and black bill of the two Common Goldeneyes nearby. Poor distant photos."
Barrow's Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jan 14, 2025 12:35 by The Spotting Twohees
- San Luis Obispo Creek Lagoon, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.7364416&<ll...>,-120.7364416 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209310446 - Media: 8 Photos
- Comments: "Seen just downstream from the golfcart only bridge. This bird was diving and in a smaller looser goldeneye group of 4 than the main group of 11 that stayed together. Mostly yellow bill, steep forehead. Photos taken from the grassy area behind Mulligans along creek."
Barrow's Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jan 13, 2025 08:53 by Virginia Langdon-Lassagne
- San Luis Obispo Creek Lagoon, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.7364416&<ll...>,-120.7364416 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209308642 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Steep forehead, short bill all yellow. Hanging out with Common Goldeneyes. I believe all these photos are of the same individual. Photos taken from the bridge on Avila Beach Drive, 35.179889, -120.737167"
Barrow's Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jan 13, 2025 08:53 by Barry Langdon-Lassagne
- San Luis Obispo Creek Lagoon, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.7364416&<ll...>,-120.7364416 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209165363 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Steep forehead, short bill all yellow. Hanging out with Common Goldeneyes. I believe all these photos are of the same individual. Photos taken from the bridge on Avila Beach Drive, 35.179889, -120.737167"
Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger) (3) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jan 14, 2025 08:45 by marlin harms
- 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/S209300924 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "I first saw them flying low over the bay and skimming at a distance between the boardwalk and the sand spit. As the tide got very high the skimmers eventually flew closer to the boardwalk."
Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger) (3)
- Reported Jan 14, 2025 07:40 by Gregory Smith
- 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/S209329373 - Comments: "Black dorsal side, white on the underside with oversized orange bill. First seen flying in from Los Osos to the boardwalk walk and then turned east paralleling the boardwalk. Did a little skimming but more just flying low over the water. Seen again later on the east side of the boardwalk."
American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jan 13, 2025 09:45 by Petra Clayton
- Oso Flaco Lake (not for beach/ocean), San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6207848&<ll...>,-120.6207848 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209214369 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Observed flying across the small lake, from the side next to the trail (just before the start of the lake board walk) to the opposite side and soon disappearing into the reeds.
In flight: Dark flight feathers, pale coverts and yellow legs. In the reeds: Dark brown back, buffy head, neck and flanks; neck extended upward with long pointed bill."
Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jan 11, 2025 12:35 by Terri Osborn
- Laguna Lake, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6903817&<ll...>,-120.6903817 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209222949 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing bird flycatching from a tree along the road just before the first dock. Bird has a gray head with a smudged eye line, large black bill, whitish chin and throat, pale yellow chest, bright yellow stomach, and a grayish green back."
Sagebrush Sparrow (Artemisiospiza nevadensis) (2) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jan 13, 2025 08:33 by Janet Rayner
- stakeout Sagebrush Sparrow -- Elkhorn/Simmler Rd Intersection (2025), San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.8400327&<ll...>,-119.8400327 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S209220869 - Media: 13 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing in exactly the same location as we had it yesterday and others have had them over the last few weeks. Intersection of Elkhorn and Simmler Rd. Photos"
Savannah Sparrow (Large-billed) (Passerculus sandwichensis rostratus/atratus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jan 14, 2025 09:08 by Tom Edell
- 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/S209309848 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "one of three recently reported. Identified by the large bill size compared to the other Savannah Sparrows present, but also the pale plumaged with grays and browns. Breast streaks brown with a touch of rust color. No obvious yellow in lores Photo"
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