ML67925811

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

First found by Aaron Lang at around 4:30pm in near boneyard. Once everyone converged on the area we relocated it at just after 5pm. I managed a few distant pictures of the bird and the photos lead us to believe the bird may be a Dark-sided Flycatcher. The bird was very small and rather secretive for a flycatcher. It would stay well ahead of us and disappear into excavated areas and the wormwood. We occasionally saw it perched on top of some wormwood and on bones or dirt mounds but it mostly remained low and out of sight. Finally it stayed put and we got scope views. The close views revealed faint blurry streaks on the sides of breast. The bird moved a few more times often flying quite far. Eventually Gary and I managed to get some good photos and Paul and Gary were able to conclude that the bird was indeed an Asian Brown Flycatcher. I have included some low resolution pictures here due to poor internet connection speeds here in Gambell. I will add higher quality images at a later date. I stayed with the bird for around 45 minutes. 5th North American record.

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS 7D Mark II

Lens

EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM

ISO

250

Focal length

400 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/500 sec

Dimensions

1485 pixels x 990 pixels

Original file size

103.05 KB