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<br>Richard<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_q Pat: I agree with others that it's not really possible to definitively i.d. this one. The notched tail and shape and eyering are all good for Least, but the bill looks too long and narow, and puts me in mind of Yellow-bellied. The kind of washed out and uniformly toned face is suggsestive of YBFL, too. But I wouldn't stake my tattered reputation on it. Cheers, Ian Ian McLaren Quoting Patrick Kelly <patrick.kelly@dal.ca>: > Hu everyone: Snip, snip > 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 > ======================================================================== == >
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