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Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) (1)
- Reported Oct 10, 2025 16:08 by Noah Arthur
- Oceano County Park, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6255312&<ll...>,-120.6255312 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S278433453 - Comments: "I’m just putting this here temporarily to trip a filter and get attention… I saw what may have been an Old World warbler this evening in the low willows by the lagoon along Guiton Trail just north of Pier Ave, by the campground. Here’s the coordinates: (35.1071319, -120.6264067). My views were bad and brief, but left me very intrigued. It was a small but not tiny passerine, patterned like a Bewick’s Wren including a similarly prominent supercilium; but shaped like a warbler, with a shorter tail and seemingly longer body than a Bewick’s. I thought the shape most resembled COYE or OCWA. I hope someone can follow up on this tomorrow! I bitterly regret not being faster with the binocs and camera."
Neotropic Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) (1)
- Reported Oct 11, 2025 09:40 by Isaiah Woodard
- 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/S278653279 - Comments: "Notably smaller than nearby DCCO. Darker lores. Gape different from DCCO, but not textbook NECO. Likely a young bird. Not the clearest ID of NECO, but corroborated by other previous observers."
Clay-colored Sparrow (Spizella pallida) (1)
- Reported Oct 10, 2025 08:23 by Jason Ransom
- Morro Bay SP--Marina/Boardwalk Trail, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8418006&<ll...>,-120.8418006 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S278427936 - Comments: "Near where the boardwalk meets the parking area at the far end of the lot. Cricket-like chip contact calls. Plain buff belly and chest, gray sides of nape, brown ear patch with darker lining. Somewhere wide supercilium buff to cream. Malar stripe was a bit diffuse dark brown. Brown streaky cap with light center stripe."
Savannah Sparrow (Large-billed) (Passerculus sandwichensis rostratus/atratus) (1)
- Reported Oct 11, 2025 12:37 by James Hinshaw-Zingo
- Morro Bay SP--Marina/Boardwalk Trail, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8418006&<ll...>,-120.8418006 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S278724257 - Comments: "Savannah sparrow with little to no yellow. Larger bill, plumage quite grayish. Verified by Pair of Wing-Nuts. Hiding in low parts of shrubbery in the open spot at the usual corner"
Orchard Oriole (Icterus spurius) (1)
- Reported Oct 07, 2025 12:20 by Petra Clayton
- Garden St, Los Osos, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8502207&<ll...>,-120.8502207 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S278086495 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Compared to a Hooded Oriole it appeared to be slightly smaller in size with a shorter tail and a shorter, less decurved bill.
It had a greenish-yellow head and underparts; a faint dark line through the eye; olive-green back and tail; brownish-gray wings with two white wingbars; fairly straight, sharply pointed bill.
Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia) (1)
- Reported Oct 11, 2025 10:45 by Isaiah Woodard
- 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/S278706784 - Comments: "Continuing. Seen well in oak grove near where the path forks on the east side. Female; black and white streaked all over, climbing up and down branches and trunks of oak trees."
Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) (1)
- Reported Oct 11, 2025 13:10 by Linda Terrill
- 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/S278739897 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing. First found 10/8/2025 by Nick Belardes. It was foraging in a holyleaf cherry along the park’s south side residential fence line between the pedestrian bridge and the Vita Course station 11 sign. The continuing Tennessee was with the Protho."
Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) (1)
- Reported Oct 11, 2025 13:10 by Scott Terrill
- 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/S278739896 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing. First found 10/8/2025 by Nick Belardes. It was foraging in a holyleaf cherry along the park’s south side residential fence line between the pedestrian bridge and the Vita Course station 11 sign. The continuing Tennessee was with the Protho."
Tennessee Warbler (Leiothlypis peregrina) (1)
- Reported Oct 11, 2025 13:10 by Linda Terrill
- 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/S278739897 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing. First found 10/8/2025 by Nick Belardes. It was foraging in a holyleaf cherry along the park’s south side residential fence line between the pedestrian bridge and the Vita Course station 11. The continuing Tennessee was with the Protho."
Tennessee Warbler (Leiothlypis peregrina) (1)
- Reported Oct 11, 2025 13:10 by Scott Terrill
- 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/S278739896 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing. First found 10/8/2025 by Nick Belardes. It was foraging in a holyleaf cherry along the park’s south side residential fence line between the pedestrian bridge and the Vita Course station 11. The continuing Tennessee was with the Protho."
Blackburnian Warbler (Setophaga fusca) (1)
- Reported Oct 10, 2025 11:12 by Jason Ransom
- 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/S278426424 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Foraging with the black-throated gray, yellow-rumped, and chickadees. Only poor cell phone photos, but enough show the angular cheek patch and heavy white in coverts."
Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 10, 2025 09:55 by Petra Clayton
- 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/S278407643 - Media: 13 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing non-breading adult/immature since 10/7/25 (Steve Tillmann).
Olive-brown crown and back; pale throat and breast; yellowish belly; brownish streaks on breast and on flanks; white eye arcs; dark eye line starting in front of the eyes; whitish supercilium; bright yellow undertail, tail bobbing while perched on the fence.
Observed on the fence along the paved pathway, coming from Coral Ave. It then flew to the right across the dry grass field to the back yard fences behind the residences.
Click on the image below for a Flickr video:
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jack-petra-clayton/54845223937/in/dateposted-public/" title="Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum), Morro Bay, CA"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/31337/54845223937_d8e548f3dd_z.jpg" alt="Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum), Morro Bay, CA" /></a>"
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