Date: 5/19/26 7:07 pm
From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...>
Subject: [slocobirding] [eBird Alert] San Luis Obispo County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:

- Lesser Scaup (3 reports)
- Bufflehead (2 reports)
- Franklin's Gull (1 report)
- Royal Tern (1 report)
- Black-and-white Warbler (1 report)
- Summer Tanager (2 reports)

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Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported May 19, 2026 10:03 by Ken Cameron
- Whale Rock Reservoir--North End, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8708239&<ll...>,-120.8708239
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S342415510
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "photo"

Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported May 19, 2026 09:34 by Bob McCay
- Whale Rock Reservoir--North End, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8708239&<ll...>,-120.8708239
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S342444192
- Comments: "Continuing individual in the Cottontail Creek arm."

Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported May 19, 2026 07:35 by Tom Edell
- Whale Rock Reservoir--North End, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8708239&<ll...>,-120.8708239
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S342422747
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "continuing female (photo)"

Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported May 19, 2026 09:34 by Bob McCay
- Whale Rock Reservoir--North End, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8708239&<ll...>,-120.8708239
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S342444192
- Comments: "In Old Creek arm"

Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported May 19, 2026 07:35 by Tom Edell
- Whale Rock Reservoir--North End, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8708239&<ll...>,-120.8708239
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S342422747
- Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Female"

Franklin's Gull (Leucophaeus pipixcan) (1)
- Reported May 19, 2026 06:44 by Maggie Smith
- Villa Creek--Estero Bluffs State Park, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.9688341&<ll...>,-120.9688341
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S342536611
- Media: 1 Photo

Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus) (1)
- Reported May 19, 2026 17:58 by vanessa kay
- Morro Strand State Beach, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8678892&<ll...>,-120.8678892
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S342592436
- Comments: "nonbreeding plumage; thin orange bill, very white cap"

Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia) (1)
- Reported May 19, 2026 08:40 by Emma Buckley
- Pismo SB--Oceano Campground, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6265268&<ll...>,-120.6265268
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S342408414
- Comments: "Foraging in the bark along the branches of a Monterey Cypress tree. Confirmed by 4 people."

Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra) (1)
- Reported May 19, 2026 16:31 by John Sayers
- Bloody Nose Trail, California, US (35.292, -120.87), San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8697021&<ll...>,-120.8697021
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S342556625
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Seen by six of us at top of bloody nose trail. Red head, yellowish body and dark wings. Red continued on rump and vent. Song was compared to known and IDd by Merlin."

Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra) (1)
- Reported May 19, 2026 12:25 by Jay Nelson
- West Hazard Canyon--Montana de Oro SP, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8812916&<ll...>,-120.8812916
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S342475834
- Comments: "Identified by song, majority red"

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