mp3 & Photos - Unkn Empi Northern Wisconsin USA (1 Viewer)

[SanAngelo]

Recordings are from 4 June 2017 in the Park Falls Chequamegon National Forest Round Lake Semi-Primitive Management Area Northern Wisconsin USA.

Don't know if the song is a peek or pip.

The bird was approximately 30-35 feet up in the center tree of the attached photo.

It's a pretty dense forest. The trail circles a lake, cuts between another. No streams but plenty of blogs. It was a wet winter and spring. Lots of bugs and mosquitoes.

 

[SanAngelo]

Best photos I got.....

 

[RJP]

The audios sound very much like a Least Flycatcher. The only empid with a similar che-bek call is the Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. But the habitat and especially nest location, a ways up in a tree, fits Least much better. Yellow-bellieds nest on or near the ground and make their nest mostly out of moss, so I think that species is out.

The first pic in the series is consistent with Least (significant eye ring), and the second pic might be although it's a little more iffy. The primary projection looks borderline too long. Pics 3 and 4 look like a different bird to me. There is little to no eye ring, and the primary projection looks long. Pic 5 looks like it could be the bird in 1 and 2 again, but I'm not certain.

It seems you had a Least from the habitat and the song, but the pics add some confusion.

 

[SanAngelo]

Thank you sir....

All the photos were taken in the same area, no more than 20 feet apart. I can say for certain photos 2 through 4 are of the same bird.

Not sure about the 1st photo, the bird flew off and it was some time before "it" returned. I have other photos but they're blurry, my abilities are lacking.

As for the "nest", I'm not sure that's an Empid nest in the 1st photo I don't know what they look like. That clump of twigs were about 20 feet off the ground. Maybe it belongs to some other bird?