Olive-sided Flycatcher? SE Texas US (1 Viewer)

howell7079

Well-known member

• Aug 26, 2009

• #1

I thought this bird was a young phoebe but there were two other birders watching the same bird and they said it was an Olive-sided Flycatcher. The bird was at Galveston State Park.

Lyndon

 

Attachments

• 
  3857219083_b6902dd633.jpg

  93.1 KB · Views: 121
• 
  3857218969_c482503402.jpg

  88.3 KB · Views: 100

Last edited: Aug 26, 2009

R

RogerO'T

Well-known member

• Aug 26, 2009

• #2

Phoebe it is.

 

Chris Benesh

So much work, so little time...so let's go birding

• Aug 26, 2009

• #3

Hi All,

Hint: neither a phoebe nor an Olive-sided Flycatcher. But it does have really long wings.

Chris

 

Tim42

Birder4life

• Aug 26, 2009

• #4

That just might be a Western Wood Pewee, look at the wing bars.:flyaway:

 

Tim42

Birder4life

• Aug 26, 2009

• #5

My bad, an Eastern Wood Pewee.:h?:

 

Birdingcraft

Well-known member

• Aug 26, 2009

• #6

Yes, a good old fashioned Wood-Pewee sp. The other birders weren't too far offf with their ID since Olive-sided is in the same genus (Contopus) as the Wood-pewees. I like those Olive-sided Flycatchers btw- they hang out in wild, coniferous forests of the north and mountains in the summer and consicuously demand three beers! After a couple months of not getting any beers at all, they angrily leave the premises to scoot down to subtropical forests in the Andes for the winter (with a few hanging out in Central America).