>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

This is just one of those examples of where we wish we had taken notes of
even the common species. Growing up birding in central California over
twenty years ago, I was always under the impression that the Olive-sided
Flycatcher was a very common species. One you checked off while looking for
other things. Now birding in Washington, they don't seem to be quite
uncommon. Wish I had better notes.

--Jerry <tangren at wsu.edu>