[bristol-birds] Re: ID help

  • From: Phil Shelton <pcs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:07:24 -0400

Dave:  This sounds like a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher.  In my experience, 
they are not noticeably smaller than other Empidonax.  Tail bobbing is 
interesting - can't recall that from YBF.  Phil Shelton, Wise.



At 11:16 AM 9/30/02 -0400, you wrote:

>Sunday I had a bird bobbing its tail, that at distant glance I thought was a
>Phoebe.  But when it flew closer I saw 2 bold wing bars and some yellow wash
>on its olive back.  I then thought flycatcher.  When it turned around, it
>was yellow from throat to tail.  It appeared to be larger than most
>flycatchers, but not as large as a Phoebe.
>
>After looking at every possible bird I could come up with, I can not call
>it.  I think it was too large to be a yellow-bellied flycatcher, though that
>was my first choice by field marks.  According to field guides the
>yellow-bellied is smaller than all flycatchers, except Least.
>I know it is hard to judge size when nothing is there to compare.
>
>What do you think or suggest?
>
>Dave Worley
>Rosedale, Va.
>
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