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Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 05, 2025 07:31 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/S271685351 - Media: 6 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing bird based on small bare area on left side of lower belly - Medium-sized sandpiper brown on breast, head and back with white flecking on back, white rows of spotting on tertials. round head with straight, dark bill about the same length as head (front to nape), bold white eye-ring around dark eye and with white throat, belly and undertail and long, olive-green legs. Observed foraging on mud-flats SW end of lake."
Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea) (1)
- Reported Sep 05, 2025 07:25 by Mike Bush
- 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/S271688682 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing juvenile and likely the bird previously at Morro Creek. All white egret (did not see the dusky primary tips today), with greenish legs, a pale iris, and a long stout with a grayish bill that was dark on the outer third. Photos"
Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea) (1)
- Reported Sep 05, 2025 07:25 by Tom Edell
- 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/S271662244 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing juvenile and likely the bird previously at Morro Creek. All white egret (did not see the dusky primary tips today), with greenish legs, a pale iris, and a long stout with a grayish bill that was dark on the outer third. Photos"
Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis) (1)
- Reported Sep 06, 2025 11:40 by Virginia Langdon-Lassagne
- Hardie Park/Cayucos Creek (Ocean Ave Bridge to Hwy 1 Bridge), Cayucos, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.9062489&<ll...>,-120.9062489 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S271857000 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing rarity first reported by Pair of Wingnuts: Small, skulking streaky brown warbler, pink legs, tan supercillium. Pale breast with streaks. Bobbing tail and flipping over leaves as it hunted along the shady creek bank. Briefly viewed in bright sunlight, but it preferred the shadows. Photos."
Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis) (1)
- Reported Sep 06, 2025 11:40 by Barry Langdon-Lassagne
- Hardie Park/Cayucos Creek (Ocean Ave Bridge to Hwy 1 Bridge), Cayucos, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.9062489&<ll...>,-120.9062489 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S271857002 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing rarity first reported by Pair of Wingnuts: Small, skulking streaky brown warbler, pink legs, tan supercillium. Pale breast with streaks. Bobbing tail and flipping over leaves as it hunted along the shady creek bank. Briefly viewed in bright sunlight, but it preferred the shadows. Photos."
Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis) (1)
- Reported Sep 06, 2025 07:29 by Ben Kolstad
- Hardie Park/Cayucos Creek (Ocean Ave Bridge to Hwy 1 Bridge), Cayucos, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.9062489&<ll...>,-120.9062489 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S271830047 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Brown warbler streaked chest strongly contrasting long supercilium. Foraging in creek near the Hwy 1 bridge. Low light pix tk"
Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 05, 2025 17:58 by Jay Carroll
- Hardie Park/Cayucos Creek (Ocean Ave Bridge to Hwy 1 Bridge), Cayucos, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.9062489&<ll...>,-120.9062489 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S271686258 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing since first reported here yesterday afternoon; the bird was characteristically bobbing its tail as it foraged along the creekside, often flipping leaves and debris like a Turnstone; showing narrow cream-colored supercilium of uniform width, very streaky underparts, and dull pinkish legs; photos."
Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis) (1)
- Reported Sep 05, 2025 13:30 by Terri Osborn
- Hardie Park/Cayucos Creek (Ocean Ave Bridge to Hwy 1 Bridge), Cayucos, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.9062489&<ll...>,-120.9062489 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S271701979 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "I first heard the Northern Waterthrush's chip call and then spotted it up the creek, bobbing its tail as it foraged along the shore. It flew into the willows before I could get a photo. Jeanette Stone helped relocate the bird up the creek and then it flew back to its original location. The bird was dark brown above, buffy white below with heavy dark streaking. It had a dark eye stripe, a whitish eyebrow and pinkish legs. Continuing bird found yesterday afternoon by Pair of Wing-Nuts."
Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 05, 2025 13:24 by Jeanette Stone
- Hardie Park/Cayucos Creek (Ocean Ave Bridge to Hwy 1 Bridge), Cayucos, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.9062489&<ll...>,-120.9062489 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S271650525 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Brown upperparts and a buff/white eyebrow. Underparts were heavily streaked with a slight yellowish wash. Foraging along the water's edge and on rocks. Constant tail bobbing similar to nearby spotted sandpiper. Photos to follow."
Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis) (2) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 05, 2025 08:40 by Petra Clayton
- Hardie Park/Cayucos Creek (Ocean Ave Bridge to Hwy 1 Bridge), Cayucos, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.9062489&<ll...>,-120.9062489 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S271659731 - Media: 20 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing species since 9/4/25 (Steve Tillmann).
Two individuals were observed at the same time (from 8:39 a.m. to 8:49 a.m.) at two different locations in the creek bed.
Petra photo-/videographed one foraging bird along a small remnant of water up-creek, east of the Highway One bridge. At the same time Jack took photos and videos of a second bird further down-creek, west of the Highway One bridge, along another shallow body of water.
Both individuals looked alike in the field: Chocolate-brown crown, nape, back, wings (no wingbars) and tail; cream-colored supercilium and arc under the eye; cream-colored throat (with dark spots); thin dark malar stripe; cream-colored breast, belly, and flanks with crisp dark streaking; unmarked whitish undertail coverts; dusky pink legs; slender dark bill. Both were frequently bobbing their tails and flipping vegetation as they foraged.
Looking at the photos/video clips in an attempt to discern a difference between the two individuals, it appears that the supercilium of the bird seen east of the highway bridge is narrower at the end (photos # 6 - #11 below).
Photos #1 - 5 below show the individual observed west of the Highway One bridge at the same time that the individual in Photos #6 - #11 was observed east of the Highway One bridge.
Photos #12 - 20 show an individual that was observed later, also west of the Highway One bridge."
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