Date: 9/8/25 4:27 pm From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...> Subject: [slocobirding] [eBird Alert] San Luis Obispo County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:
- American Wigeon (1 report)
- Black-chinned Hummingbird (1 report)
- Solitary Sandpiper (1 report)
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron (3 reports)
- Little Blue Heron (2 reports)
- Vesper Sparrow (1 report)
- Northern Waterthrush (2 reports)
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Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea) (2)
- Reported Sep 08, 2025 12:45 by Andrew Fleming
- Tidelands Park, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8514118&<ll...>,-120.8514118 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S272294476 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing 2 juveniles. Seen with the Claytons. One was standing on the first dock by boat ramp, the other hunting on the rocks nearby. Slender with thicker bill and longer neck than black crowned.
Poor Digibinned photo."
Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea) (2)
- Reported Sep 08, 2025 10:46 by Ann Stockert
- Tidelands Park, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8514118&<ll...>,-120.8514118 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S272288543 - Comments: "Observed both birds together on the “Rae Hazel” as soon as I drove up. Juvenile YCNH with very stout mostly dark bills, long legs, and smaller spots on wings than a BCNH. Photos"
Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 06, 2025 09:10 by Petra Clayton
- Tidelands Park, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8514118&<ll...>,-120.8514118 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S271899942 - Media: 12 Photos
- Comments: "Most likely one of the two juveniles, that were present here earlier this morning and the individual observed at this location on 9/4/25.
Possibly the individual reported at the Morro Bay SP Marina on 9/3/25 (Tom Edell).
Dark, stout bill with yellow feathers at the base of the lower mandible; small white triangular spots on the covert feathers.
Flew in and landed on the rocks below the cypress behind the last (private) boat ramp, past the public boat launch, where it was hunting for crabs.
Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea) (1)
- Reported Sep 08, 2025 08:12 by Doug Drynan
- 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/S272294796 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "continuing bird. Observe from the Prefumo creek mouth viewing location. yellow iris. bicolored bill, pale yellowish near the base on the lower mandible, Blue gray near the base on the upper mandible. dark tip on bill. Bluish green legs. All white plumage. I could not discern the dusky wing tips except when looking at some of my photos."
Vesper Sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus) (1)
- Reported Sep 08, 2025 15:25 by Russ Namitz
- MU Ranch, Carrizo Plain NM--no internal access, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.4817506&<ll...>,-119.4817506 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S272311925 - Comments: "🟠 Sparrow with prominent white eyering. Similar sized to Lark Sparrows without the obvious facial pattern. White outer tail feathers 🪶 and streaked chest."
Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis) (1)
- Reported Sep 08, 2025 08:40 by Ann Stockert
- Pecho Road Willows, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.85271&<ll...>,-120.85271 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S272255576 - Comments: "Continuing…originally found by Jim R. It was chipping which helped me locate it. Brownish warbler with very streaky underside and pale supercilium. It was constantly bobbing tail up and down. Photos"
Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis) (1)
- Reported Sep 06, 2025 17:13 by Jim Royer
- Pecho Road Willows, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.85271&<ll...>,-120.85271 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S272277644 - Comments: "Large gray brown warbler with whitish underparts and dark dense streaked chest and throat, metallic chink call note and wagging of tail. It had a white supercilium. Lacked buffy flanks."
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