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Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea) (2)
- Reported Sep 08, 2025 13:00 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/S272351651 - Media: 14 Photos
- Comments: "Two juveniles seen at once. One stayed on the on-shore rocks across from the long boat ramp, the other one flew back and forth between several boats and the rocks.
Presumably the same two juveniles observed at this location in the morning of 9/6/25 and in the morning and afternoon of 9/7/25. One juvenile was first present here on 9/4/25 and could have been the same individual reported on 9/3/25 at the Morro Bay SP Marina.
Both have a dark, stout bill with yellow feathers at the base of the lower mandible; small white triangular spots on the covert feathers.
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Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 13, 2025 12:10 by Petra Clayton
- 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/S273208511 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing juvenile at this eBird hotspot since 8/31/25 (Sam Larkin).
Most likely the same individual that had been observed at Morro Creek Mouth from 8/30/25 to 8/31/25. (Last eBird report at Morro Creek mouth: 8/31/25 at 4:35 p.m.)
Viewed from the empty lot at the Prefumo Creek mouth.
Overall white with greenish-yellow legs and feet; greenish lores and dark bill, that appeared lighter at the base and darker at the distal half."
Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 14, 2025 09:43 by Jane Mygatt
- San Simeon Point, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-121.1946398&<ll...>,-121.1946398 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S273471985 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "In pines here: (35.6367686, -121.1964089) All black and white streaked. No yellow on supraloral rules out black-throated gray. BOC photos to be switched out."
Orange-crowned Warbler (celata) (Leiothlypis celata celata) (1)
- Reported Sep 13, 2025 09:10 by Petra Clayton
- Meadow Park--San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6606531&<ll...>,-120.6606531 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S273207510 - Media: 10 Photos
- Comments: "Gray head; gray-green back; pale supercilium, dark line through the eye; white eye arcs; pale yellow belly and undertail; gray and green on the wings, but no wing bars; some green on tail."
Virginia's Warbler (Leiothlypis virginiae) (1)
- Reported Sep 14, 2025 08:56 by Nick & Jane
- Meadow Park--San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6606531&<ll...>,-120.6606531 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S273433483 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing zooming feather balloon with wings. A male lacking a tail. Saw it flying, then chased it into same oaks where I first saw it yesterday (this post has coordinates: https://ebird.org/checklist/S273188049). Photos (third sighting—my other posts go into fieldmark details). Seen off and on with five birders."
Virginia's Warbler (Leiothlypis virginiae) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 14, 2025 06:55 by Reef Comer
- Meadow Park--San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6606531&<ll...>,-120.6606531 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S273488737 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Third time’s the charm! Continuing tailless Leiothlypis in tiny live oak and sycamore at these coords: (35.2673976, -120.6607993). Would occasionally fly over to bottlebrush. Pale gray overall with bold, white eyering, yellow rump and undertail coverts, and very faint yellowish wash on breast. Regularly giving sharp, metallic call similar to Nashville."
Virginia's Warbler (Leiothlypis virginiae) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 13, 2025 09:10 by Petra Clayton
- Meadow Park--San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6606531&<ll...>,-120.6606531 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S273207510 - Media: 10 Photos
- Comments: "Light gray on head and back; pale front; conspicuous white eye ring; thin bill; bright yellow undertail coverts; no tail.
Actively foraging in bottle brush and oaks in the middle of the park, sometimes in the company of a Yellow Warbler.
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus) (1)
- Reported Sep 14, 2025 08:00 by andrea moudakis
- Price Canyon, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6295608&<ll...>,-120.6295608 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S273401197 - Comments: "Surprise visitor to feeder and birdbath. Solo bird. Mature coastal oak woodland at edge of homes. No photo. Medium size black and white songbird with large red patch on chest. Not a woodpecker."
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