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Hammond's Flycatcher (Empidonax hammondii) (1)
- Reported Apr 29, 2026 09:52 by Virginia Langdon-Lassagne
- Upper Res. Cyn. -Lopez Mt. SW, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.624931&<ll...>,-120.624931 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S329588618 - Media: 15 Photos
- Comments: "Partial eye ring (back side only). Bill two-toned beneath, but seems large for a Hammond's. Long primary projection. Gray "vest" with yellow on lower breast. Photos."
Gray Flycatcher (Empidonax wrightii) (1)
- Reported Apr 30, 2026 07:57 by ovenbirds are real
- 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/S330112489 - Media: 4 Videos, 17 Photos, 2 Audio
- Comments: "Continuing “maybe” bird found by THE KING OF MEADOW PARK. This is my second sighting after possibly finding this bird several days ago on April 24. I mean, must have since a bunch of others claim to have seen the bird? Maybe? No moderators were present today observing me observe, so not sure if any of this will be accepted into any official capacity other than into the annals of gray flycatcher lore scratched into the ancient ledgers of unofficial slo county bird-dom with words like, “here ye, here ye . . . I hereby, duly, and forthwith announce this second unofficial sighting of the gray birdeth of meadowwww . . . on said day, in said year (clears throat). . . And call to thy utmost glorious attention (clears throat again) . . . And presenteth thee . . . Oh good subjects of the under-realm . . . A dull grey birrrrrrdd . . . and other mumbo-jumbo plumage (unofficial this and that) . . . Of which this birrrrd wears as the royal bathrobe of Sir Plume de Gray (Spoken in a royal accent of some European nation) . . . And by decree, was possibly seen (unofficial verbiage, more unofficial verbiage) and witnessed . . . in the meadowwwwww . . . Perched, then chewing on uhhhhhh-foood of the six-legged kind . . . to which this shall be recorded . . . .” This non-scientific study, observed by non-ornithological eyes, may merely be a hallucinatory sighting, possibly created by the Sam Altman AI Bird Project to dupe the unleashed dogs of Meadow Park into thinking this bird could be as real as the signs that mark the laws their masters break. Whatever was seen, looked, or appeared, possibly, was exactly the same as the bird on the day the KING OF MEADOW PARK originally found the bird( april 24). Could also be a clone, a plant, a duplicate. However, the bird both sang and called, pumped its tail downward-dog style, and flew from pine to pine, and darted briefly into deciduous trees, all in the grove south of the community garden (but north of path) while a homeowner insisted on giving an unleashed dog’s NPC owner, lemons, many lemons (no lie). This bird reported to the observer not to post its field marks but instead wanted to say, “Please, I am smol. I do smol things. I am gray. I am flycatchy. I catch bugs from grass and fly to low branch. I eat bugs. Watch me. I do again.” Photos, vids, recordings, talon prints, eye scans."
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle x Audubon's) (Setophaga coronata coronata x auduboni) (2)
- Reported Apr 30, 2026 07:57 by ovenbirds are real
- 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/S330112489 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Black masks, white super-silly-ums. Wide yellow throats surrounded/bordered by white. One photo of a bird mid-park, many photos of a second."
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