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Baird's Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 07, 2025 09:16 by Kevin Zimmer
- Morro Bay Sandspit, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8670158&<ll...>,-120.8670158 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S278261746 - Comments: "Late juvenile. Larger and longer winged than nearby Least and Western sandpipers, with more horizontal posture and wingtips that extended past the tip of the tail when standing. Buffy-brown above, with distinctly scaly pattern to upperparts resulting from dark-centered feathers with sharply defined, pale-fringed edges."
Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 09, 2025 09:55 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/S278229205 - Media: 6 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing female/hatch year bird since 9/21/25 (Steve Tillmann).
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.
Quickly moving nuthatch-like up and down trunks and branches, in oaks in the northeast portion of the park, searching for insects in bark crevices and from foliage.
Click on the image below for a Flickr video clip:
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jack-petra-clayton/54844549384/in/dateposted-public/" title="Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia), San Luis Obispo, CA"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/31337/54844549384_760be272ca_z.jpg" alt="Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia), San Luis Obispo, CA" /></a>"
Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 09, 2025 09:55 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/S278229205 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing since 10/8/2025 (Nick Belardes), which was the "first-ever" eBird report of that species at this eBird hospot.
Bright yellow head, breast, and flanks; white vent and undertail covert; relatively short tail; yellow-green back; grayish wings; no wingbars; pointed bill with brownish upper mandible and pinkish lower mandible; dark eye; indistinct eyering. --- In oaks in northeast side of the paved loop of the park, shortly after south and east paths separate, coming from the Woodbridge St entrance."
Tennessee Warbler (Leiothlypis peregrina) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 09, 2025 09:55 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/S278229205 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing individual since 10/8/25 (Nick Belardes)
Olive back and head; dark line through the eye, front to back; pale supercilium; yellow throat and breast; pale belly; white undertail coverts; short tail; pointed bill. - Observed in a sycamore on the southeast end of the park."
Palm Warbler (Western) (Setophaga palmarum palmarum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 09, 2025 08:38 by Kevin Zimmer
- Cloisters Community Park (not for beach and ocean), San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8609828&<ll...>,-120.8609828 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S278267577 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing bird first found by Steve T on 10/7. Seen along fence line near the triangle trail intersection in the northern part of the park, where it foraged mostly on the ground, while pumping its tail up and down. Dull plumaged warbler, with narrow, pointed black bill and black tarsi and toes; brown upper parts faintly streaked dusky on back, and darker on crown; dirty buff below, with contrastingly paler throat, framed by narrow dusky whisker streaks; long and conspicuous creamy buff supercilium; wings with two faint beige wingbars; vent conspicuously yellow mustard color; rump duller greenish-yellow. Photos to follow."
Palm Warbler (Western) (Setophaga palmarum palmarum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 09, 2025 08:15 by Reef Comer
- Cloisters Community Park (not for beach and ocean), San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8609828&<ll...>,-120.8609828 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S278257972 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing drab tail bobber! Seemed to have a nectar craving, as it flew to and foraged in a bottlebrush-like tree, a post-flowering agave, and a NZ flax on Coral Ave."
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