Date: 9/19/25 8:00 am From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...> Subject: [slocobirding] [eBird Alert] San Luis Obispo County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:
- Neotropic Cormorant (1 report)
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron (1 report)
- Little Blue Heron (7 reports)
- Yellow-breasted Chat (1 report)
- Virginia's Warbler (1 report)
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Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 18, 2025 08:48 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/S274101483 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "continuing juvenile. Photographed near creek outlet but spent most of the time out of view or on the eastern side of the lake. All white egret about the size of an adjacent Snowy Egret with a pale yellow iris, blue-gray bill with a dark tip, and yellow-green legs and feet. I did not see the faint dark tips on the outer primaries."
Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) (1)
- Reported Sep 15, 2025 08:00 by sue girard
- 535 cory way / yard list, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.5001819&<ll...>,-120.5001819 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S274107599 - Comments: "appeared mid morning , fed in prunus hedge & bathed.
Prev. yd sighting 9/4/22 during very hot spell. lingered all day. Further sightings 9/5. 6, & 8/22, (all incoming typ fall migrators/winter visitors are late THIS yr. )"
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