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Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 23, 2025 17:13 by Tom Edell
- San Geronimo Ck--Estero Bluffs SP, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.9338218&<ll...>,-120.9338218 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S275160799 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "juvenile perched in brush on the southeast side of the creek. It showed more small white tips on flight feathers than seen on 19 Sep juvenile. (photos)"
Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 23, 2025 10:14 by Kevin Zimmer
- 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/S275181118 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing, we’ll documented juvenile, with strikingly pale, whitis irides; uniformly yellow-olive tarsi and toes; bicolored bill, with blackish distal portion and paler, blue-gray to slightly pinkish gray base."
Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 21, 2025 12:25 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/S274812134 - 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 Prefumo Creek mouth.
Overall white; greenish-yellow legs and feet and a bill that was light at the base and dark on the distal half."
Red-breasted Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 23, 2025 08:36 by Kevin Zimmer
- 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/S275179516 - Media: 6 Photos
- Comments: "Early. Distinctive woodpecker with entirely red head, nape, throat and upper breast, except for whitish moustachial stripe, blackish lores, and indistinct black-and-white patch on rear portion of ear coverts. Large white patch in mostly black wings; underparts mostly pale yellowish, but with vague, grayish barring on flanks."
Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 23, 2025 09:45 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/S275153195 - Media: 14 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing female/hatch year bird since 9/21/25 (Steve Tillmann). (Most recent prior eBird report of this species at this eBird hotspot: 2/18/2023)
Today first spotted by Jake Hager and then again by Andrew Fleming, as it was quickly moving nuthatch-like up and down trunks and branches, first of the bottle brush, then of the oak on the southeast portion of the park near Casa Diablo, where the paved path crosses the drainage ditch.
Boldly streaked black and white pattern; black upperparts with white streaks; grayish-white face; white eyering; black crown with broad white center stripe; broad white supercilium; creamy-white throat and underparts; a buff wash on the lower flanks and vent; black streaks on the flanks; black spots on the undertail; two white wingbars; sharply pointed bill; black legs with yellow toes.
Click on the image below for a Flickr video, showing the warbler searching for insects in bark crevices and from foliage:
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jack-petra-clayton/54808838965/in/dateposted-public/" title="Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia), San Luis Obispo, CA"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/31337/54808838965_e9f836d1f9_z.jpg" alt="Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia), San Luis Obispo, CA" /></a>"
Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Sep 23, 2025 08:36 by Kevin Zimmer
- 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/S275179516 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing HY female, with white throat, mostly whitish face, pale buff flanks diffident streaked with gray. Upper parts streaked black-and-white; wings black with two bold white wingbars and white-edged tertials; crown with white median stripe, black lateral crown stripes, white eyebrows and narrow black line through the eye. Distinctive nuthatch-like creeping behavior. I managed a few poor, record shots, to be uploaded shortly."
Chestnut-sided Warbler (Setophaga pensylvanica) (1)
- Reported Sep 23, 2025 17:30 by Pair of Wing-Nuts
- Del Mar Park--Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8586752&<ll...>,-120.8586752 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S275166630 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing bird reported minutes earlier by Reef Comer - Stocky-shaped warbler foraging non-stop was light green on back with dark primaries, pair of creamy-greenish/white wing-bars on each wing and black spotting on rump, lime green on upper head with complete white eye-ring, pale bill and gray face and was nearly all white below except for faint chestnut on sides and black outside edging to underside of tail. Possible second bird without discernible chestnut on sides was observed in the same flock foraging in the Eucs on east of park along the pasture fence line."
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