ML615805594

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Observation details

Reported earlier by Jon F. I looked briefly around 11am without success and then came back for another look and Grigory H had relocated it in the rocky river bottom (34.1560526090899, -118.29162929049916). Although difficult to pick out against the rocks, it was fairly actively flycatching from rock to rock and sometimes doing vertical rises to catch insects. None of us saw it fly off but eventually it did seem to melt away (as it's known to do) and despite much searching, we couldn't find it again. Quite frustrating, as I would love to know where this bird is spending the majority of its time. The sum of its many parts would ID it as ocularis and I can't find anything contradictory. * All gray crown (most imm lugens have some black feathers in crown by Feb'/Mar') * Van's photos show best the very dark contrasting bases to the median coverts (matching Fig. 3a in Sibley, Howell) * Dark centers to greater coverts (matching Fig. 4b in Sibley, Howell) * Pattern of white edging on secondaries narrows towards base (matching Fig. 5a in Sibley, Howell) * dark pattern on inner web of R6 is visible in all those photos when it was in the tree (photos by others from a week or so ago) - feature is best seen from below (matching Fig. 6a in Sibley, Howell) * gray rump doesn't hurt

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