[texbirds] Re: Alder Flyctcher?
- From: Mary Gustafson <live4birds@xxxxxxx>
- To: jmartypaige@xxxxxxxxx, texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:23:41 -0500 (EST)
This would be very unseasonal as Alder Flycatchers are late spring migrants,
normally appearing in May. It would be even stranger to have one singing. I
have heard Willow Flycatcher sing in spring in the LRGV a few times, I can't
recall hearing Alder sing. Wintering Empids don't sing in the LRGV, and
migrants only rarely in my experience. If you have a smartphone you can record
the birds if they are close using your voice memo app.
You can see expected dates for birds using John Arvin's excellent checklist
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_bk_w7000_1033.pdf
Mary
Mary Gustafson
Mission, Texas
-----Original Message-----
From: J Paige <jmartypaige@xxxxxxxxx>
To: texbirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:12 am
Subject: [texbirds] Alder Flyctcher?
I was at Sabal Palm Sanctuary in Brownsville on February 19.� I was down by
the
Rio Grande River when I heard this flycatcher.� I only cauugt glimpses of the
bird as it was moving from about quite frequently calling al the time.� I did
see it enough to determine it was a small empidonax.� It sounded most like an
Alder flycatcher with the buzzy fee-beo call which it was making over and
over.��� Would this be a normal find at that time of year at Sabal
Palm?� I was
an out of State visitor.
J Marty Paige, Cleveland, Tennessee
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