[mid-valley-nature:683] Willow Flycatcher?

[Lisa Millbank]

Don and I worked in the garden at Starker Park today and visited Sunset Park.

 

A male Anna's Hummingbird was performing his display dive right over our heads.  There was a Green Heron stalking along the shore of the lower beaver pond.  A few Yellow-rumped Warblers were still in the willows there.  A male Northern Harrier visited the garden.

 

It was unusual to have a couple of flycatcher visitors in the garden.  One was a calling Western Wood-Pewee, and the other appeared to be a Willow Flycatcher, but we weren't certain.  

 

We've always identified Willow Flycatchers by voice, not paying close attention to the finer points of trying to identify them visually since we don't see them often.  This bird has a dark orange/yellow lower mandible, an incomplete grayish-brown breast band, almost no eye ring, a light throat, and seemingly short primaries.  But I'm not completely sure, I must be a Tyrannidae tyro.  Any empid experts out there who can tell us if we're wrong about this being a Willow Flycatcher? 

 

Lisa

www.neighborhood-naturalist.com

 

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