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Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis) (1)
- Reported Mar 23, 2025 18:59 by Terri May
- San Simeon Creek Mouth/Beach, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-121.1267052&<ll...>,-121.1267052 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S220406076 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Smaller sized duck with white on the head. Observed just before sunset which didn’t provide optimal viewing of its plumage. Frequently diving, with very little time visible on the surface of the water. Photos to follow."
Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis) (1)
- Reported Mar 23, 2025 18:00 by Terri Osborn
- San Simeon Creek Mouth/Beach, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-121.1267052&<ll...>,-121.1267052 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S220407608 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Smaller sized duck with white on the head, brown cap, cheek patch and chin, bluish gray bill, brown back and wings and white chest and belly. Frequently diving, with very little time visible on the surface of the water. This Long-tailed Duck was found earlier today by The Spotting Twohees."
Western Cattle-Egret (Ardea ibis) (1)
- Reported Mar 23, 2025 17:45 by Pair of Wing-Nuts
- Atascadero Lake, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6667256&<ll...>,-120.6667256 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S220405106 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing bird found by Justin Ward earlier in the day. Small, mostly white heron with buffy orange crest and lower back/rump, short, stout yellow bill that appeared bluish due to coating of an unknown substance and short, dark legs.Observed perched on branch on NE corner of island. The belly of this appeared to be oiled."
Western Cattle-Egret (Ardea ibis) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Mar 23, 2025 16:06 by Eric Wier
- Atascadero Lake, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6667256&<ll...>,-120.6667256 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S220384423 - Comments: "White wading bird, approximately the size of a snowy egret, but with a bulky, yellow bill. The bird was perched in bare branches at the north end of the island (at south end of the lake)."
Western Cattle-Egret (Ardea ibis) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Mar 23, 2025 14:57 by Ann Stockert
- Atascadero Lake, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6667256&<ll...>,-120.6667256 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S220399527 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing in dead tree on the end of the island across from the parking area. Small white Egret with yellow bill,pale coppery color on the head and breast. Poor photo"
Western Cattle-Egret (Ardea ibis) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Mar 23, 2025 13:45 by The Spotting Twohees
- Atascadero Lake, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6667256&<ll...>,-120.6667256 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S220357075 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Perched in tree on north side of island. Mostly white egret about the same size or smaller than a Snowy Egret.
White with rusty head and rusty color on wings. Yellow bill. Black oil? on lower left belly and left wing."
Western Cattle-Egret (Ardea ibis) (1)
- Reported Mar 23, 2025 12:15 by Hunter Burggraf
- Atascadero Lake, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6667256&<ll...>,-120.6667256 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S220408517 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "small yellow bill, black legs, and buffy tones on the head and breast, perched at the top of a dead tree on the edge of the small island on the southern side of the lake"
Western Cattle-Egret (Ardea ibis) (1)
- Reported Mar 23, 2025 08:47 by Kevin Zimmer
- Atascadero Lake, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6667256&<ll...>,-120.6667256 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S220411813 - Comments: "Compact small white heron with rich buff highlights in crown and on back; proportionately short, thick, yellow bill; tarsi and toes appeared blackish (no contrast between the two), and the irides appeared pale, but given the light and the distance, not to mention some intervening branches, these details were difficult to discern without a scope. This bird did appear to be oiled or otherwise stained blackish on the belly, and for the entire time of my observation (45 minutes plus), it remained perched in a bare tree, where it preened almost continuously. Distant record shot quality photos to follow."
Yellow-headed Blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Mar 23, 2025 10:31 by John Hiebert
- Cal Poly--Mt Bishop Road, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6777764&<ll...>,-120.6777764 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S220309224 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "I was out at the feed lots at Cal Poly, looking for tricolored blackbirds. I observed through my binoculars, a group of black birds on top of the roof of the open building that contains hay bales, next to the cattle pens. While looking through my binoculars, I observed what I believe to be a yellow headed blackbird. It had a yellow head on a black body and I observed white patches on their black wings. It was quite a distance away So my photos are not very good, but I will attach some."
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