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Podrobnosti k pozorování

Craziest bird chase in 45 years of birding! When I arrived on the scene at the forested thicket by Google at about 4:30 the bird had not been seen for about 1/2 hour. I hung around with the mob for about an hour until it was seen by several observers deep in the thicket. All of a sudden it flew over Charleston Road and landed in a landscape tree in the Google parking lot between buildings 1225 and 1245. Scores of birders were frantic chasing after the bird as it flew from tree to tree in the parking lot, alighting near the top of each one for 10 or 20 seconds and providing good looks for all. Small Old World flycatcher, rounded head, white eye-ring more prominent to the rear like Western, white collar around the throat, white belly with diffuse streaking on upper breast and flanks, white wing bar, tail somewhat forked when perched.