Date: 6/17/25 9:43 am From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...> Subject: [slocobirding] [eBird Alert] San Luis Obispo County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:
- Black Swift (1 report)
- Vaux's Swift (1 report)
- Neotropic Cormorant (10 reports)
- American Redstart (3 reports)
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Black Swift (Cypseloides niger) (3)
- Reported Jun 16, 2025 12:00 by Roger Hammer
- Spyglass Park, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6864613&<ll...>,-120.6864613 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S251231322 - Comments: "rare here no matter when and then a somewhat late sighting, and instead of a single or two bird grouping-three; with sun above and slightly right and behind me for good clear viewing-watched several swifts fly by that were large (bigger than WTSW), all dark (no white on throat or elsewhere-I looked hard for any white as I knew this ruling out was crucial to i.d.), notched tail on 1 bird and fanned w/ square tail on the other two. tail projected past wings farther than head/neck projected forward and wings were wider than a VASW and flight was less "fluttery" with some gliding between wingbeats. watched birds come, fly right in front of me, and passed me heading southward. waited for 10 more minutes to see if they would return-no."
Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) (1)
- Reported Jun 17, 2025 07:13 by Andrew Fleming
- Morro Creek mouth, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8624411&<ll...>,-120.8624411 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S251380275 - Comments: "Continuing small cormorant now local celebrity. Dark brown mottled breast, orangey gular that did not extend to the eye and had slight white border. Fan like tail. First spotted sunning itself on a half submerged log just upstream from the pedestrian bridge. Jumped in the water after a few minutes and then flew off far upstream. Came back after ~5 minutes to sit in the sycamore tree. After a few more minutes it flew off downstream to the beach and headed north."
Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jun 16, 2025 15:49 by Kaaren Perry
- Morro Creek mouth, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8624411&<ll...>,-120.8624411 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S251208439 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Immediately upon my arrival I saw the small cormorant roosting on a log in the creek. Using my car door as a blind I was able to get several photos over the next 5 minutes before it flew off, heading out over the creek to the west. It circled about and returning in less than 5 minutes, this time settling on the sycamore snag. Descriptions of this rarity included in several of my posts and those of many other birders."
Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jun 16, 2025 10:20 by Petra Clayton
- Morro Creek mouth, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8624411&<ll...>,-120.8624411 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S251249573 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing since 6/9/25 (Tom Edell)
Second year bird actively foraging in the creek, about 100 yards up-creek from the pedestrian bridge.
Dark head, neck and back; orange gular patch with a pale border forming a V at the gape; blue eye in the black; no orange lores as with a Double-crested Cormorant; yellow hooked bill with darkish culmen on the upper mandible.
Click on the image below for a Flickr video, showing the Neotropic Cormorant foraging in the creek:
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jack-petra-clayton/54595313273/in/dateposted-public/" title="Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum), Morro Bay, CA"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/31337/54595313273_c78b22f442_z.jpg" alt="Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum), Morro Bay, CA" /></a>"
Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) (1)
- Reported Jun 16, 2025 08:00 by Jim Royer
- Morro Creek mouth, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8624411&<ll...>,-120.8624411 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S251266464 - Comments: "A continuing bird found by Tom Edell. It was a cormorant with a smaller head and bill than a Double-Crested, with yellow on the throat base of bill area but no yellow in dark lores and a light border to the back of the yellow throat patch. Like a Double-crested it flew with a bend in the neck (head held higher than the neck). It appeared to be a juvenile, but it had a dark chest rather than the light colored chest of a Double-crested. I observed it fly into the sycamore tree to roost, fly down to the creek to catch fish, and spread out to dry its wings elevated above the creek on a concrete chunk."
Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) (1)
- Reported Jun 15, 2025 14:44 by Lisa Gattuso
- Morro Creek mouth, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8624411&<ll...>,-120.8624411 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S251244058 - Comments: "continuing rarity found sharing a sycamore tree (above the creek across from the maintenance facility) with great egrets, snowy egrets, black-crowned night herons and crows. This petite cormorant had a longish, frayed tail. observed the bird fly down to the creek, swim back and forth (nearly to the bridge) , forage, eat and fly back up into the same tree."
Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) (1)
- Reported Jun 15, 2025 14:44 by Jan Bugge
- Morro Creek mouth, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8624411&<ll...>,-120.8624411 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S251369243 - Comments: "continuing rarity found sharing a sycamore tree (above the creek across from the maintenance facility) with great egrets, snowy egrets, black-crowned night herons and crows. This petite cormorant had a longish, frayed tail. observed the bird fly down to the creek, swim back and forth (nearly to the bridge) , forage, eat and fly back up into the same tree."
Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jun 15, 2025 08:57 by Doug Drynan
- Morro Creek mouth, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8624411&<ll...>,-120.8624411 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S251241322 - Media: 6 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing bird first reported by Tom Edell. I arrived at the location and observed a small cormorant standing on a log in the middle of the creek. Small cormorant, overall fairly dark brown with a lighter brown head and neck. Black legs and feet. The back was darker and had a scalloped pattern. The gular pouch was yellow with an orange tinge around the base of the bill. White line outlined the yellow patch. Tail was pretty ratty looking. Photos"
American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jun 16, 2025 11:46 by Mike Bush
- Oceano County Park, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6255312&<ll...>,-120.6255312 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S251155890 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Large warbler with red-orange wing bars and either side of breast and tail as well. White belly. Noted by KH across the street earlier this morning and heard by Roger Hammer just prior to my arrival. Seen by Terri Osborn as I was preparing to leave in willows opposite this morning's find."
American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Jun 16, 2025 11:43 by Terri Osborn
- Oceano County Park, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6255312&<ll...>,-120.6255312 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S251269429 - Media: 7 Photos
- Comments: "I heard it singing about a half hour after arriving and then spotted it up in a tree. Black head, back and upper chest, white belly and under tail coverts, reddish-orange on sides and under tail, and black wings with reddish-orange wing bars. Seen in the trees on the NE edge of the O.C. Park lagoon. (35.106514,-120624883) Reported earlier today by KH."
American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) (1)
- Reported Jun 16, 2025 11:00 by Roger Hammer
- Oceano County Park, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6255312&<ll...>,-120.6255312 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S251222264 - Comments: "KH reported a lively singing AMRE this morning; when Jim and I arrived we immediately checked the willows adjacent to the lagoon and saw them "swimming" with BUSH (not Mike); AMRE sung 4 times and I called Mike to come back. Bird did not reveal itself until I left and Terri arrived on the scene bringing luck. I returned to find two happy photogs and no more appearances or singing of the bird. Mike and Terri got good pics."
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