Date: 4/25/24 5:20 am
From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...>
Subject: [slocobirding] [eBird Alert] San Luis Obispo County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:

- Redhead (1 report)
- Long-tailed Duck (1 report)
- Long-tailed Jaeger (2 reports)
- Laughing Gull (3 reports)
- Brewer's Sparrow (1 report)
- Lark Bunting (1 report)
- Orchard Oriole (1 report)

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NOTE: all sightings are UNCONFIRMED unless indicated.

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Redhead (Aythya americana) (2)
- Reported Apr 24, 2024 06:21 by Zane Warsen
- Oso Flaco Lake (not for beach/ocean), San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6207848&<ll...>,-120.6207848
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S170095634
- Comments: "Continuing individuals, by sedge edge"

Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis) (2)
- Reported Apr 24, 2024 14:25 by Terri Osborn
- 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/S170179023
- Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing ducks, one on the sandspit beach east of Morro Rock and one preening while swimming along western shore of harbor mouth channel"

Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus) (1)
- Reported Apr 24, 2024 10:47 by Steve Stump
- 5, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-121.7552283&<ll...>,-121.7552283
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S170110473
- Comments: "Small jaeger, long slender wings, elongated posterially, could not discern any white on dorsal side of wing."

Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus) (1)
- Reported Apr 24, 2024 10:47 by Todd Easterla
- 5, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-121.7552283&<ll...>,-121.7552283
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S170175412
- Comments: "Small jaeger, long slender wings, elongated posterially, could not discern any white on dorsal side of wing."

Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) (1)
- Reported Apr 24, 2024 12:55 by Terri Osborn
- Old Creek--Cayucos, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8875608&<ll...>,-120.8875608
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S170175199
- Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing Gull seen with a group of Bonaparte's Gulls"

Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Apr 24, 2024 11:45 by Jeanette Stone
- Old Creek--Cayucos, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8875608&<ll...>,-120.8875608
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S170144520
- Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing gull, photo"

Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Apr 24, 2024 09:08 by Kathy Dale
- Old Creek--Cayucos, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8875608&<ll...>,-120.8875608
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S170106354
- Media: 3 Photos
- Comments: "Black thick bill, black legs, upper feathers mottled taupe and gray, mottled gray under, head mottled taupe and gray, gray near bill. Broken white eye arcs, black tail. In the same location as previously reported."

Brewer's Sparrow (Spizella breweri) (1)
- Reported Apr 24, 2024 07:15 by Mike Mahoney
- Carrizo Plain National Monument, Santa Margarita US-CA 35.04762, -119.54977, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.549768&<ll...>,-119.549768
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S170107593
- Comments: "Heard singing well, several times in some scrub east of this point"

Lark Bunting (Calamospiza melanocorys) (8)
- Reported Apr 24, 2024 16:07 by Russ Namitz
- Lark Bunting stake-out 2023-2024 (use only for birds at this location), San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-119.7330033&<ll...>,-119.7330033
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S170147248
- Comments: "Still here. A couple of nice looking males"

Orchard Oriole (Icterus spurius) (1)
- Reported Apr 24, 2024 09:00 by Petra Clayton
- Doris Street Coastal Access, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.848252&<ll...>,-120.848252
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S170156472
- Media: 6 Photos, 1 Audio
- Comments: "Continuing since 4/12/24 (Jim Royer).
Brick red chest, belly, rump and underparts; black head, chin, back and tail; black wings with a brick red patch and white edges on the flight feathers; pointed dark bill.

Click on the image below for a Flickr video, which includes vocalization:
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jack-petra-clayton/53677590135/in/dateposted-public/" title="Orchard Oriole (Icterus spurius), male, Los Osos, CA"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/31337/53677590135_af7d86a18e_c.jpg" alt="Orchard Oriole (Icterus spurius), male, Los Osos, CA" /></a>"

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