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Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Aug 09, 2025 13:05 by Anonymous eBirder
- Turri Road Tidal Ponds, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8218378&<ll...>,-120.8218378 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S266165966 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing brownish-grey shorebird slightly larger than a least sandpiper. Short, straight, thick blunt-tipped black bill, black legs, uniform drab scaling on back, noticeable pale supercilium, rufous-brown crown, brownish ear patch. Foraging with a least and western sandpiper, then foraging with a western sandpiper. Picked amid the shallows while the western sandpiper stayed out of the water. In easternmost pond. Distant photo."
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) (1)
- Reported Aug 09, 2025 12:39 by Eric Wier
- Turri Road Tidal Ponds, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8218378&<ll...>,-120.8218378 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S266171237 - Comments: "Small shorebird seen about 200 feet or more away, with grayish upperparts and white underparts; appearing a bit smaller and more slender than Western Sandpiper, which was nearby; relatively short, dark bill with blunt tip, and obvious whitish supercillium."
Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Aug 09, 2025 07:06 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/S266190366 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "immature bird continuing on creek. Flew in from up creek at 8:35. Then left again and returned. Did a lot of fishing using its particular talent of raising large wings and dancing about."
Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Aug 08, 2025 09:06 by Van Pierszalowski
- 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/S265986400 - Media: 2 Videos
- Comments: "Continuing juvenile, doing its avant-gard dance moves and successfully swallowing a few fish. The bird was present in the creek mouth throughout my visit. Overall brown and gray muted tones without much contrast. Long, all dark bill; dark gray-ish legs; light yellow-ish iris. I did not hear the bird vocalize or fly."
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