Date: 5/1/25 6:00 am From: eBird alert via groups.io <alert.ebird...> Subject: [slocobirding] [eBird Alert] San Luis Obispo County Rare Bird Alert
*** Species Summary:
- Common Merganser (1 report)
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron (1 report)
- Bank Swallow (1 report)
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1 report)
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Bank Swallow (Riparia riparia) (1)
- Reported Apr 30, 2025 08:16 by Kevin Zimmer
- Atascadero Wastewater Treatment Ponds--no internal access, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.6424508&<ll...>,-120.6424508 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S231415844 - Comments: "The only brown-backed swallow seen. Smaller, with more jittery, faster wing beats than the other swallows present. Entirely brown above, but wings contrastingly darker than the paler, grayer brown back; white below except for discrete brown chest band separating white throat from white belly. Seen on multiple passes as it foraged low over one of the ponds, but it was impossible to photograph through the chain link fence, especially given the fast, erratic flight. I did not hear it vocalize."
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Corthylio calendula) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Apr 25, 2025 06:48 by Reef Comer
- West Cuesta Ridge, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.661226&<ll...>,-120.661226 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S229422727 - Comments: "RC only. Small, active, olive green bird with thin bill and prominent, almost complete white eye ring. Brief hovering at branch tips and heard it give a couple dry jidiit calls. Late."
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