On Jun 9, 2006, at 7:23 PM, David Young wrote: > Douglas Herr solved: > >>> Can anybody here help with the identification? >>> >>> Two views: >>> >>> http://www.telyt.50megs.com/unknown_1.htm >>> http://www.telyt.50megs.com/unknown_2.htm >>> >> >> Female Red-winged Blackbird > > > Thanks, Doug! :-) > > I had not considered the female Red-winged, despite there being a > lot of them around here, just now. > > My though pattern was that the bird books I have all say that > flycatchers perch and then swoop out to catch and insect, then > quickly return to their perch. This was the pattern followed by this > bird, as I watched it for a while. There was quite a concentration of flying bugs a couple of weeks ago near the Cooper's Hawk nest, where I saw Starlings, Western Scrub Jays, Acorn Woodpeckers, Tree Swallows and Ash-throated Flycatchers all doing the fly-catching thing! Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/