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Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) (1)
- Reported Jul 01, 2025 15:28 by Kevin Zimmer
- 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/S256245205 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Worn and somewhat bleached looking female, possibly the same individual photographed by Petra Clayton at Santa Rosa Creek a few days ago. Paler, more golden brown head and neck than female Common Merganser, with wispier rear crest, more blended pale chin and throat (not sharply contrasting), and darker brown forecrown, line through eye and ‘bridle’ mark below the eye separated by pale loral stripe, and with pale crescents above and below the eye."
Vaux's Swift (Chaetura vauxi) (2)
- Reported Jul 02, 2025 06:55 by Ben Kolstad
- 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/S256235491 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "At least two individuals, one slightly paler than the other. (Age related?) (The photos are of the same individual, I think, so not meant to demonstrate this hypothetical difference.)"
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