Date: 8/7/26 3:32 am From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...> Subject: [slocobirding] [eBird Alert] San Luis Obispo County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:
- King Eider (1 report)
- Solitary Sandpiper (3 reports)
- Least Bittern (3 reports)
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King Eider (Somateria spectabilis) (1)
- Reported Aug 06, 2026 16:03 by Terri Osborn
- Pasadena Park Beach, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8440733&<ll...>,-120.8440733 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S380675665 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing female, large brown duck with a sloping forehead down to a large dark bill. She was preening while resting on the log boom raft at the south end of the oyster farm in the Morro Bay estuary. (Poor long distance photo for ID)"
Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria) (1)
- Reported Aug 06, 2026 09:51 by Reef Comer
- 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/S380677611 - Comments: "Found by T Edell earlier this morning. Smallish tringa with dark upperside and breast, bold white eye ring, straight dark bill, white underside, and olive green legs. Occasional tail bobbing. Picked up and flew a couple times, giving very high, whistly peet weet calls."
Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Aug 06, 2026 09:42 by Ben Kolstad
- 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/S380560048 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Tringa sandpiper with no spots below and a few white spots on upperparts. Relatively prominent eye ring. Seen at a distance looked like lesser yellowlegs, except the legs seemed less yellow than either yellowlegs sp."
Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Aug 06, 2026 08:43 by Tom Edell
- 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/S380647919 - Media: 1 Video, 4 Photos
- Comments: "Adult at the Prefumo Creek outflow into Laguna Lake. Adult with less spotting on wings than a juvenile and brown on breast somewhat streaked. Yellowish base to the bill, yellow-green legs, barring on tail, white eyering and lores. (photos, video)"
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