FreeLists / tn-bird / [tn-bird] Vermilion Flycatcher: rumination

[raincrow <raincrow@xxxxxxx>]

My posting is just a musing and NOT a report: about 5 days ago my non-birder 
mom,
who now lives in a well-wooded neighborhood ~15 miles east of Gallaher Rd
(Farragut), tried to describe to me by phone a very unusual red bird, smaller 
than
a cardinal, shorter tail, but that didn't seem to be a House or Purple finch...

Liz Singley
Kingston TN

dtrently wrote:

> I just returned from the site of the reported Vermilion Flycatcher. I MAY have
> seen the bird. What I saw was a red bird perched on a wire a long way off...it
> did not look like a cardinal, but before Audrey Hoff could get her scope out
> of the car the bird flew off.
> What I saw through binoculars:
> dark red bird sitting upright on a wire.
> Tail not as long as a Northern Cardinal
> I tried to turn it into a cardinal, but just couldn't...but I could not 100%
> turn it into a Vermilion Flycatcher.
> When it flew away, it certainly appeared to have dark wings.
>
> All I can say for sure is that this COULD have been a Vermilion! I'll try to
> go back on Saturday.
>
> David Trently,
> Knoxville, TN
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