ML137545991

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

After-hatch year. Is a first county record and only the 5th for the state. Andy Frank called me at about 3:40 PM to tell me that he and Tait Anderson were looking at a male Vermilion Flycatcher at Vanport Wetlands. After posting it to OBOL I jumped in the car and sped over there and was delighted to see the bird flycatching away from a dead tree at the SW corner of the wetlands. Mostly viewed through my binoculars I also looked through Andy's scope. It was fairly far away. My initial thoughts was that it was a after-hatch year male as the brown of the nape and face looked a bit paler/grayer than I remembered and fairly pale wingbars, plus the throat looked a paler red then the breast and crown. Whether it was wear or feather displacement there were also some yellowish or pale patches on the breast. I managed to take some fairly poor digiscoped photos, one of which is loaded onto Flickr at: Photo at:

Technical information

Model

COOLPIX P5100

ISO

200

Focal length

12.9 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/5.5

Shutter speed

2/227 sec

Dimensions

692 pixels x 792 pixels

Original file size

659.41 KB