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Allen's Hummingbird (Selasphorus sasin) (1)
- Reported Nov 01, 2025 15:00 by Kayla Michael
- Morro Bay SP--Marina/Boardwalk Trail, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8418006&<ll...>,-120.8418006 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S282434338 - Comments: "Small compact hummingbird flying among the bushes along the trail. Quite abit of rufous - orange coloration on the bird, along with a more or less greenish back. While watching the bird saw a nice flash of it's throat, it was a real orangish in coloration."
Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Oct 31, 2025 09:50 by Petra Clayton
- 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/S282250051 - Media: 6 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing since 10/29/25 (Ann Stockert).
Olive-gray back; notched tail; medium gray head with a dark mask; white chin and throat; bright yellow breast and belly; large, stout black bill. --- Observed flying around the entrance to the campground, briefly perched behind the quonset hut and across the way in the cypress in the gate area,
Click on the image below for a Flickr video:
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jack-petra-clayton/54892730417/in/dateposted-public/" title="Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus), Montaña de Oro, Los Osos, CA CA"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/31337/54892730417_e08bc21459_z.jpg" alt="Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus), Montaña de Oro, Los Osos, CA CA" /></a>"
Grasshopper Sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum) (1)
- Reported Nov 01, 2025 07:37 by Nick & Jane
- 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/S282384736 - Comments: "Large pink bill, the top of which is seamless to curvature of rounded head. White eyering, buffy pale face with dark patches on backs of auriculars, yellow lore patches. Buffy and streaky flanks, otherwise pale to white underside.L. Rufous bits on back streaking. Pale buff to chin. Short tail. Extremely high-pitched “tip” call. In far western park grassland foliage. Photos"
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) (1)
- Reported Nov 01, 2025 07:46 by Kathleen Kent
- Oakview Village, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.660672&<ll...>,-120.660672 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S282360504 - Comments: "Continuing presence of CHSPs. I may have gotten a photo of one in an oak tree. I didn’t get a good look, but did see the rufous crowns and bold cream supercillium. Merlin picked up the vocalization."
Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum) (1)
- Reported Nov 01, 2025 16:47 by Michael Tiffany
- Morro Bay SP--Marina/Boardwalk Trail, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8418006&<ll...>,-120.8418006 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S282433388 - Media: 1 Photo
- Comments: "Warbler, with yellow-rumps, similar behavior. No yellow rump. Bobbing tail. White tail corners. Bright yellow undertail coverts. Dull rufous brown cap, greyish eye stripe. South side marina boardwalk 200 ft east of big cypress."
Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum) (1)
- Reported Nov 01, 2025 15:00 by Kayla Michael
- Morro Bay SP--Marina/Boardwalk Trail, San Luis Obispo, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&<q...>,-120.8418006&<ll...>,-120.8418006 - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S282434338 - Comments: "Here along the boardwalk among the scrubs and grasses nearby and also landing on the boardwalk nearby letting us have some excellent views of the bird. There was a birdwatching couple here at the sametime who got some excellent photos of the bird. See his report when he posts his report. The bird was seen near 5pm or so and quite abit of fog in the area at the time.
The bird was a brownish type of warbler species. The bird had a definite but pale rufous to brownish crown, a nice light colored eyebrow stripe which was easy to see, a light colored breast with some faint streaking, and yellow beneath the rump and tail area, yellow underail coverts. But this yellow coloration was not above the tail like in the Yellow-rumped Warblers nearby."
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