Subject: Re: Olive-sided Flycatcher status
Date: Jan 15 11:24:45 1997
From: Janet Partlow - partlowj at elwha.evergreen.edu


Hello tweets,
I lived for awhile on a narrow wooded ravine in the middle of
heavily residential north Tacoma (there was a seasonal stream that ran
the ravine) My apartment looked out at tree-top
level; each June I was charmed by a pair of Olive-sided Flycatchers that
called incessantly in the vicinity: Quick, three beers! This is how I
came to know this bird. Now I live in Olympia, also on a ravine and I
rarely hear them in town, though Capitol Peak and the Nisqually Fish
Hatchery are two sites I remember them from.
Janet Partlow
partlowj at elwha.evergreen.edu

On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Kelly Cassidy wrote:

>
> I am sruprised at this perception that OS Flycatcher are declining.
> I haven't been birding long enough to get an feeling for population
> declines or increases, but my impression of their habitat preference
> is that they like one very tall tree as a perch. If anything, I've
> heard them more often on perches in the midst of patchy forest, but
> occassionally in unbroken forest. My guess would have been that
> logging has not been detrimental and might even have been beneficial
> for them. Perhaps other factors are at work, or perhaps my
> non-scientific perception of habitat association is off the mark.
>
> Kelly Cassidy
>