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Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) (1)
- Reported Mar 05, 2025 07:00 by Kevin Zimmer
- KJZ yard, Garcia Rd, Atascadero, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.7064838&<ll...>,-120.7064838 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S216832439 - Comments: "Adult male with full red-orange gorget, white median underparts, cinnamon flanks and 95% rufous upperparts, with only a few scattered metallic green feathers on the crown and back. Photos to follow."
Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) (1)
- Reported Mar 03, 2025 07:00 by Kevin Zimmer
- KJZ yard, Garcia Rd, Atascadero, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.7064838&<ll...>,-120.7064838 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S216833111 - Comments: "Adult male with full red-orange gorget, white median underparts, cinnamon flanks and 95% rufous upperparts, with only a few scattered metallic green feathers on the crown and back. Photos to follow."
Wandering Tattler (Tringa incana) (1)
- Reported Mar 05, 2025 10:04 by Nick & Jane
- Bluff Trail--Montana de Oro SP, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8948396&<ll...>,-120.8948396 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S216793158 - Comments: "Nonbreeding adult/immature grey shorebird bobbing and preening on rocks after bathing in rock pool. Long grey bill, yellowy short legs. Dark flanks and chest—no obvious barring—pale underside. Also, long pale thin eyebrow. Watched bird fly between shoreline rocks. Photo."
Lark Bunting (Calamospiza melanocorys) (1)
- Reported Mar 04, 2025 08:40 by Kevin Zimmer
- Bitterwater Rd. (SLO Co.), San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.0875959&<ll...>,-120.0875959 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S216827242 - Media: 13 Photos
- Comments: "Female, perched on fence line next to multiple White-crowned Sparrows. Similar in size to WCSPs, but shorter-tailed and stockier, with heavy, conical, silvery-blue bill; finely streaked on breast, but with streaks coalesced into a central stickpin; more boldly dark streaked on flanks; otherwise white below and gray-brown above, with bold white panel along leading edge of folded wing; rather muted face pattern, with white eye ring and supercilium, gray-brown auricular outlined darker at border, broad white submustachial framed below by dark malar. Photos to follow."
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