Date: 9/3/25 9:09 am From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...> Subject: [slocobirding] [eBird Alert] San Luis Obispo County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:
- Solitary Sandpiper (4 reports)
- American Herring Gull (1 report)
- Neotropic Cormorant (1 report)
- Little Blue Heron (2 reports)
- Red-eyed Vireo (3 reports)
- American Redstart (1 report)
- Northern Parula (1 report)
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Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 01, 2025 08:22 by Petra Clayton
- Turri Road Tidal Ponds, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8218378&<ll...>,-120.8218378 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S270986161 - Media: 7 Photos
- Comments: "Flew into the eastern-most tidal ponds, foraged for about three minutes and flew off again. --- Bigger than the near-by Least Sandpipers; conspicuous complete white eyering; two-tone straight bill, greenish at the base with a dark tip (terminal third of the bill); greenish-yellow legs; medium brown streaked breast; white belly and undertail; unmarked flanks; brown mantle with fine white spots.
Only other eBird report of this species at this eBird hotspot: 8/11/2018. --- Last report of this species in the vicinity: 5/4/2022 in the seasonal pond at the corral further down on Turri Road.
Click on the image below for a Flickr video:
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jack-petra-clayton/54762522660/in/dateposted-public/" title="Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria), Los Osos, CA"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/31337/54762522660_3f698c449a_z.jpg" alt="Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria), Los Osos, CA" /></a>"
American Herring Gull (Larus smithsonianus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 01, 2025 16:53 by Jay Carroll
- West Hazard Canyon--Montana de Oro SP, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8812916&<ll...>,-120.8812916 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S271147928 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing individual, previously reported from Morro Bay Sandspit (7/31/25 - NB), West Hazard Canyon shoreline (8/21/25 - HE), and also seen at Morro Bay Harbor begging for french fries (8/22/25 - JCC); light gray mantle, smudgy head and neck, yellow eyes, pink legs, and dusky-tipped pinkish bill; photos."
Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 02, 2025 08:54 by Nick & Jane
- 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/S271151732 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing tiny white heron on north side of lake. It flew to another spot ten meters west and foraged. Never came over to creek mouth like yesterday. Pale eye; thick, dark-tipped bill, yellow-green legs and feet. Distant photo."
Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 01, 2025 09:10 by Reef Comer
- 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/S271158334 - Comments: "Continuing juvenile and almost certainly the same individual from Morro Creek mouth. White overall with light gray and black tip bill, light gray skin around eye, very inconspicuous black wingtips, pale greenish legs and feet, and slower foraging habits with neck outstretched and bill angled down."
Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus) (1)
- Reported Sep 02, 2025 10:28 by Herb Elliott
- Arroyo Grande Creek--Fair Oaks Ave Bridge, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.5872571&<ll...>,-120.5872571 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S271157619 - Media: 6 Photos
- Comments: "… blueish gray crown, pronounced cream colored supercilium, reddish iris, olive-green upperparts; whitish underparts with a hint of yellow. Found earlier this morning by KH."
Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 02, 2025 09:51 by The Spotting Twohees
- Arroyo Grande Creek--Fair Oaks Ave Bridge, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.5872571&<ll...>,-120.5872571 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S271134967 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Found by KH earlier today. Foraging in oaks along trail in a mixed flock. Vireo with green back and light belly. Dark eyeline with light eyebrow. Redish eye."
American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) (1)
- Reported Aug 31, 2025 11:18 by Pair of Wing-Nuts
- Pismo SB--Oceano Campground, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6265268&<ll...>,-120.6265268 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S270759471 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing adult male mostly black above with orange on wing-bars and sides and sides of tail with white belly, orange undertail with black undertail tip. Observed vocalizing softly here: (35°06'40.0"N 120°37'36.7"W)."
Northern Parula (Setophaga americana) (1)
- Reported Aug 31, 2025 11:18 by Pair of Wing-Nuts
- Pismo SB--Oceano Campground, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6265268&<ll...>,-120.6265268 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S270759471 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing bird (KH and Herb 8.11.25) was a small, short-tailed warbler with slate-gray head, sharp-tipped bill with dark upper mandible and pale lower mandible, bold eye-arcs bisected by short, black eye-line, two short, bold white wing-bars on each side, blotchy rust-colored breast-ring, yellow lower breast and white belly and undertail. Observed here: (35°06'43.4"N 120°37'34.8"W)."
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