[SBB] Olive-sided Flycatcher etc. 9/11/2006

["Garth Harwood" <[[email protected]]>]

This morning 9/11/2006, it took more than an hour of quiet waiting at the little pond at Monte Bello preserve's gate 5 pond for anything significant to develop (the continuing Soras, Pileated Woodpecker, and Green Heron notwithstanding).

 

Shortly after sunrise things finally picked up. A large, dark flycatcher making looping flights from the tip of a nearby snag allowed a fairly close approach and turned out to be an Olive-sided Flycatcher. A Chipping Sparrow in winter plumage popped up in the willows. Later, a small flock of sparrows in the coyote brush produced two Lincoln's Sparrow and 2 Savannah Sparrows associating together.

 

A Ruby-crowned Kinglet in the willows was my first-of-fall (it flew near a pair of Hutton's Vireos for a helpful comparison, and was also good enough to issue its rattling call.)

 

Good birding everyone,

 

Garth Harwood

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