[TN-Bird] Help with bird ID

 
I was at my kitchen window yesterday and saw a bird  standing on the statue 
above the bird bath. It may have been a Yellow-Bellied  flycatcher. I remember 
it having a very dark head, yellow belly and two wing  bars. However, the 
picture in the Peterson Guide doesn't show a dark head.  Maybe, it appeared 
darker 
due to it not being in the sunlight. I know my first  instinct was that it 
reminded me of an Eastern Kingbird, but I know they don't  have a yellow belly, 
and I couldn't see any white on the tip of it's tail. It  just had that head 
shape of a flycatcher. I didn't have much time to study it. I  had a worker 
measuring the kitchen for tile work. When I looked out and saw this  bird, I 
hadn't seen before, I left him in mid-sentence to run into the next room  to 
get 
my binoculars. Can you think of any other bird that I could have seen  rather 
than the Yellow Bellied Flycatcher?
Thanks!
 
Ann Tallent
Blount Co.
Maryville


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