FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Olive-sided Flycatcher invasion (Lewis Co.)

[Bill Pulliam <bb551@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This morning (Sep 12 2006) I was greeted again by an Olive-sided  
Flycatcher in the front yard, presumably the same one that has been  
around since Saturday (Sep. 9).  A few minutes later, as I hiked up  
to our small decommissioned chert pit up the hill about 200m from our  
house, I heard a couple of "pips" followed by one unmistakable  
"whoops, three bears!"  When I got to the chert pit, I found two  
OSFL's harassing each other in the snags surrounding the pit.  One  
had staked out the tip of the highest snag, while the other was  
evidently discontented with the scraggly sourwood it was stuck with  
and wanted to steal the primo perch.  Given the very short time  
between the sightings I am suspecting that these were both new birds,  
bringing the total up to three.  The bird on the lesser snag was a  
dusky juvenile (as is the bird that I have been seeing since  
Saturday), but the one on the high perch was a strongly marked  
adult.  The sharp contrast between his olive "vest" and the center of  
his breast gave an almost black-and-white impression.  I say "he"  
because I am guessing this is the one I heard sing.  Lest anyone  
think I have gone off my rocker and forgotten how to ID my Contopus,  
both of the new birds showed prominent white rump tufts, on beyond  
their large size, stocky build, big heads, short tails, and stout bills.

Other than that, it's a quiet, drizzly morning.

Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN
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