[LRflex] Re: The Great Unknown...

  • From: Douglas Herr <telyt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:11:41 -0700

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

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