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Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis) (6)
- Reported Apr 08, 2024 10:27 by Heather O'Connor
- Morro Bay harbor mouth, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8658353&<ll...>,-120.8658353 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S167820119 - Comments: "One with white head with grey behind and below the eye. 1 had a dark head, with white eye patch. Saw 4 fly and land on the water at the N sand spit opposite target rock. Two went up on beach and returned to the water. All later seen on water between the finger and S jetties."
Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis) (6) CONFIRMED
- Reported Apr 05, 2024 10:35 by Petra Clayton
- Morro Rock, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8670566&<ll...>,-120.8670566 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S167319633 - Media: 10 Photos
- Comments: "On the north end of the Morro Bay Sandspit. All with dark cheek patches and small bills. Some had more white on the head than others. One had a lot of dark on face and neck.
Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis) (2) CONFIRMED
- Reported Apr 03, 2024 17:51 by Sebastian Sharp-Blancarte
- Morro Rock, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8670566&<ll...>,-120.8670566 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S167879292 - Comments: "Pair in non-breeding plumage. Lots of white in the face. No long tail feathers, but noticeably smaller than the pair of Surf Scoters that were also on the shore with them until three crazy human swimmers approached them. However, their cold-water plunge forced the pair to our side of the water for a closer look once when move further up the shore towards the open ocean.
Pictures to be added later."
Chukar (Alectoris chukar) (Exotic: Naturalized) (3) CONFIRMED
- Reported Apr 08, 2024 14:25 by Russ Namitz
- Carrizo Plain National Monument, Santa Margarita US-CA 35.13823, -119.59387, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.593869&<ll...>,-119.593869 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S167785496 - Comments: "Two birds flushed at my feet from the pin drop. I saw them land down slope. Hiked down and tried playback, and a different bird answered from but further downhill."
Calliope Hummingbird (Selasphorus calliope) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Apr 07, 2024 07:30 by Kevin Zimmer
- KJZ yard, Garcia Rd, Atascadero, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.7064838&<ll...>,-120.7064838 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S167828323 - Comments: "One female (or possibly immature male) seen perched on one of our feeders late in the afternoon. When first seen, it was sitting next to a female Rufous/Allen's that was visibly larger and longer tailed, and which had dark, rusty flanks and a partial white collar on the sides of the neck. The Calliope, by comparison, was smaller, shorter-tailed (wingtips at rest appeared to extend beyond the tail tip), and shorter-billed, with buffy, less contrasting sides/flanks, and no obvious rufous at the base of the tail, which I saw well when it fanned the tail and flew off in response to aggression from an adult male Rufous, which was pretty zealously guarding the feeder. The rectrices on the Calliope were green with black subterminal spots and white terminal tips. I was uncertain as to whether the bird was a female or young male, because the throat seemed more heavily spotted than what I consider typical for a female, and the spots almost appeared to be in longitudinal rows. The Calliope tried to return twice to the feeder while I was watching, but each time, it was driven off by the adult male Rufous, which was driving even the Anna's Hummingbirds away."
Calliope Hummingbird (Selasphorus calliope) (1)
- Reported Apr 08, 2024 15:39 by Pair of Wing-Nuts
- NA, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6857303&<ll...>,-120.6857303 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S167848567 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Diminutive hummingbird compared to nearby Anna's and Rufous Hummingbirds with striking, flowing red gorget rays, short, thin bill, white throat, light rufous on sides, flanks and undertail, green above from crown to dark black tail with white tips on outer tail feathers."
Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Apr 08, 2024 08:15 by Roger Hammer
- Cayucos Pier, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.9069453&<ll...>,-120.9069453 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S167822589 - Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "med sized gull, smaller than acc. RBGU. Partial eclipse ring arcs above/below dark eyes. infernal dog bust-flushed these too amidst my slow sneaking up for a pic; owners got impatient, I guess, and let it rip. looks like perhaps a more mature, nonbreeding plumaged bird as I didn't see much brown."
Brewer's Sparrow (Spizella breweri) (1)
- Reported Apr 08, 2024 11:28 by Russ Namitz
- 6627, Santa Margarita US-CA 35.04396, -119.47691, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.476906&<ll...>,-119.476906 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S167754324 - Comments: "Sang its short song, briefly… Quite a surprise! Never located visually as I was without binoculars for this list. Did not respond to playback. Buzzy and much longer induration than Savannah Sparrow or Bell’s Sparrow."
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