ash-throated flycatcher

Ash throated flycatcher

I've had some serious health issues but am thinking positive and will try to keep up with the comments on all of your beautiful images asap.

This youngster comes daily to enjoy the birdbath.

A migrant species, up form Mexico, and winters through most of the Western United States, as far north as central Oregon.

Seen March 27, 2016 at Catalina State Park north of Tucson, AZ

While traveling in the Biosphere yesterday, I ran across this Ash-throated Flycatcher! Lovely, patient model, waited while I set up the tripod, and then preened, looked both ways, really worked it for me! This is the M.c. pertinax subspecies from here on the Baja

I'm pretty sure this is a youngster since it landed close to me and let me take several images.

Ash-throated Flycatcher (Myiarchus cinerascens subsp. cinerascens) Photographed in an ash tree in Rio Grande Village, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas, USA. Disturbed Rio Grande riparian at ca. 571 m (1,872 ft) elevation. May 2014

I'm guessing by the "look" that this flycatcher was getting a bit tired of me and my camera.

These flycatchers aren't afraid to fly up close to someone. This morning I was out on the deck refilling the peanut butter log when one flew up and landed not 6 ft. from me. It sat on the branch attached to the deck for quite a while and just watched me.

Cleaning out my archives and came across this, from 2007...

This one flew up to our second floor deck and provided enough time for a few pictures before he flew down to the birdbath.

First of season and 4 days earlier than last year, I heard this one singing at 6 a.m. An hour later I was out on the deck and it landed on the fence for several photos.

Why is the birds always have to pose in the one spot the metal fence is showing?

First sighting for this year, this one just stayed for a minute before it jumped further into the trees.

This is a lifer for me. I have seen a Cassin's Kingbird in Massachusetts and now an Ash-throated Flycatcher in Florida :-) .

Same bird as on my previous image - one very accommodating individual! (It did help that by then most of the rest of the group was back on the beach.)

The day before my half-marathon, which was the day before my flight home, I started the day by doing a walk in Glen Ellen on a route the Birding in California book mentions. I'll have to go back there for more next visit. Once again, even an hour's walk in good bird territory in California...

Ash-Throated Flycatcher with grasshopper