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Bay-breasted Warbler (Setophaga castanea) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 06, 2025 08:58 by Francis Toldi
- 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/S283165199 - Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing, this time feeding actively at eye level in the row of low oaks close to the coordinates marked by others, with a large mixed flock. Warbler with green head, dark wings stresked with white and with white wingbars, rufous in flanks, white undertail. Phone (!) photos later."
Bay-breasted Warbler (Setophaga castanea) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 06, 2025 07:07 by Christine Hogue
- 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/S283185560 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Continuing bird found by Bob McCay. Francis from Monterey pointed me to a group of small oaks to the west of the eucs. I spotted the bird foraging then lost sight. I saw it minutes later in the small toyons closer to the parking lot in the euc grove. Yellowish head, two wide white wing bars, peachy-rufous flanks. Photo."
Bay-breasted Warbler (Setophaga castanea) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 05, 2025 09:40 by Petra Clayton
- 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/S283060586 - Media: 11 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing since 11/4/25 (Bob McKay). --- Today first spotted by Nick Belardes, after Reef Comer and Lou McGonagill, who were leaving, pointed us in the right direction, toward the end of the tree-lined path, that parallels the fence and connects the lakeside trail head with the northern trailhead. --- The bird was difficulty to track, often in challenging light conditions, as it was actively foraging in the eucalyptus trees across from the gazebo and also across the path in the company of Townsend's, Yellow-rumped and Black-throated Gray Warbler.
Lime-green head, nape and back; back with black streaks; white throat and belly; white undertail with black outer edges; yellow wash on the breast; salmon-colored lower flanks; black wings with two bold white wingbars; yellow-green face; white eye arcs; dark line through the eye; pointed black-tipped bill with dark upper mandible and pinkish lower mandible; dark gray legs and feet.
Bay-breasted Warbler (Setophaga castanea) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 04, 2025 12:35 by The Spotting Twohees
- 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/S282911933 - Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Great find by Bob McCay today! Foraging in the toyon sometimes moving to the eucs. Warbler with greenish head, buffy breast, and rufous flanks and vent. White undertail. Dark wings with two white wingbars."
Blackburnian Warbler (Setophaga fusca) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 06, 2025 09:25 by Jay Carroll
- Islay Creek Campground--Montana de Oro SP, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8838502&<ll...>,-120.8838502 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S283189139 - Media: 5 Photos
- Comments: "Possibly continuing female/immature male type; fairly drab overall yellowish warbler but with prominent white wing bars, broadly streaked back including lighter lateral streaks (“suspenders”), white undertail coverts, face with triangular cheek patch; photos."
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