Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Juvenile, Unknown sex - 1
Media notes
Eye-ring is a uniform even width with no "teardrop" at the back, noticeably gray streaking on the sides could suggest it's a HY, though I lack experience with this species.
Observation details
HY observed foraging mid level in tree immediately south of the magic bush (46°45'03.4"N 118°19'03.0"W) for roughly an hour. In the field I recognized the bird as a good Yellow-bellied Flycatcher candidate but wasn't confident enough in my ability to eliminate Western at the time since YBFL would be a lifer. Upon checking out my photos and sending them around, advice from others rekindled my hope in the bird being a YBFL and I looked deeper into the ID and thus am only now reporting this bird 12 hours later. Field marks include: dome shaped head rather than typical crest of WEFL, eye-ring with uniform even thickness apart from a very subtle buldge towards the back, faint gray streaking on sides consistent with YBFL. With some faint gape showing, greenish wing bars, and distinct gray streaking on the sides, this bird looks like a pretty straight forward HY. Special thanks to Liam H who passed along the photos after agreeing this bird looked off. 2nd Washington state record.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D500
- ISO
- 220
- Focal length
- 500 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/8.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/320 sec
- Dimensions
- 2122 pixels x 1247 pixels
- Original file size
- 447.38 KB