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<A title=patrick.kelly@dal.ca href="mailto: ------=_Part_14617_5979431.1212970967301 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi Pat, Your photo shows an Empidonax flycatcher, but it's not detailed enough to tell the details of bill width, primary projection etc., although the eye-ring looks pretty prominent Much more important at this time of year with "empids" is habitat + vocalization. The habitat sounds just right for a Least, but another possibility might possibly be a Yellow-bellied. They tend to be low, and Leasts tend to be high (although having the ability to fly, there's no reason why they couldn't sometimes head into the opposite habitat). Your bird does seem to show a yellowish tinge to the belly, so I wonder ..... Brown, gray etc. is pretty useless with empids, as they can reflect the light off trees, molt and feather wear affect them, etc. Leasts go "chebeck, chebeck" repeatedly, and fast enough that it often sounds like a single note. Y-B go "che...beck" more slowly and emphatically. Alders hang out in alders in swampy areas and go "rrrre..beer", and Willows (very rare) hang out in willows and go "fitz.. bew". For proof of any other empid breeding in NS, produce some DNA! The text in the empid section in the NGS and Sibley field guides is well worth reading. I did 3 point counts this morning in my Hall's Harbor square - fun being in the woods, and not too bad bird-wise. On our property right now we have 2 active Robin's nests, 2 active Mourning Dove's nests, several active Grackles' nests and a Song Sparrow that spends most of the day every day hitting its reflection in various windows and crapping on the table out on the deck - I guess that's "agitated behavior". Richard On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Patrick Kelly <patrick.kelly@dal.ca> wrote: > Hu everyone: > > I spent over four hours atlassing the the Vaughan square (On Highway 14 > south of Windsor). I even managed some nice views of a new life bird for me, > an olive-sided flycatcher! The Stokes is right. It does sound like "Quick! > Three beers." I came across a second one later in the day. I also almost > stepped on, a female ruffed grouse and her brood. The little ones scattered > and she lured me away. I was wondering the other day how people managed to > get FY from birds like that! LOL > > This square had 52 species in the first atlas and I'm up to 47 so far. > Still not a single duck, or a wood-peewee. I haven't heard a peewee so far > this summer... and that is quite unusual for me. I have been in the right > type of woods on quite a few occasions.... > > I did have one bird which may be a least flycatcher. I had seen one (that > was quite cooperative) in one area a week ago and was hoping to bump it up > to on territory. This is semi-mature softwood with a brook running through > it. A lot of birch and the occasional tall softwood. There was a bird about > the right size in the same area, but it was agitated, and would only make > "chirp" calls. It also refused to sit still. There was another, larger bird, > doing the same thing but I could not see what it was. > > It did sit still long enough for me to get two quick pictures. I have put > them into a single image at: > > http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/Least.jpg > > The only reason I'm not 100% sure it is a least, is that when I did catch > it in binos, the overall appearance that I got was more of a brown than a > gray, but they pictures seen to look like a least, at least to me. As usual, > any help is greatly appreciated. > > Pat > > > ========================================================================== > Patrick Kelly > Director of Computer Facilities > ========================================================================== > Faculty of Architecture and Planning > Dalhousie University > ========================================================================== > PO Box 1000 Stn Central 5410 Spring Garden Road > Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 > Canada Canada > ========================================================================== > Phone:(902) 494-3294 FAX:(902) 423-6672 E-mail:patrick.kelly@dal.ca<E-mail%3Apatrick.kelly@dal.ca> > ========================================================================== > -- ################# Dr.Richard Stern, 70 Exhibition St. Kentville, NS, Canada B4N 4K9 Richard Stern, 317 Middle Dyke Rd. Port Williams, NS, Canada B0P 1T0 rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca rbstern@xcountry.tv sternrichard@gmail.com ################### ------=_Part_14617_5979431.1212970967301 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi Pat,<br><br>Your photo shows an Empidonax flycatcher, but it's not d= etailed enough to tell the details of bill width, primary projection etc., = although the eye-ring looks pretty prominent Much more important at t= his time of year with "empids" is habitat + vocalization. The hab= itat sounds just right for a Least, but another possibility might possibly = be a Yellow-bellied. They tend to be low, and Leasts tend to be high (altho= ugh having the ability to fly, there's no reason why they couldn't = sometimes head into the opposite habitat). Your bird does seem to show a ye= llowish tinge to the belly, so I wonder ..... Brown, gray etc. is pre= tty useless with empids, as they can reflect the light off trees, molt and = feather wear affect them, etc. Leasts g= o "chebeck, chebeck" repeatedly, and fast enough that it often so= unds like a single note. Y-B go "che...beck" more slowly and emph= atically. Alders hang out in alders in swampy areas and go "rrrre..bee= r", and Willows (very rare) hang out in willows and go "fitz.. be= w". For proof of any other empid breeding in NS, produce some DNA!&nbs= p; The text in the empid section in the NGS and Sibley field guides is well= worth reading.<br> <br>I did 3 point counts this morning in my Hall's Harbor square - fun = being in the woods, and not too bad bird-wise. On our property right now we= have 2 active Robin's nests, 2 active Mourning Dove's nests, sever= al active Grackles' nests and a Song Sparrow that spends most of the da= y every day hitting its reflection in various windows and crapping on the t= able out on the deck - I guess that's "agitated behavior&quo= t;.<br> <br>Richard<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_q