On Fri, 21 May 1999 Turaco14 at aol.com wrote:

> Tweeters -
>
> I just got a new yard bird today, but unfortunately I have no clue what it is
> because it's a freaking impossible-to-identify empidonax flycatcher. I
> watched it for an hour and made these observations:
>
> Large eye-ring tapered at the end
> slight topknot
> lower mandible pinkish orange
> slight yellow wash below, gray above
> loud "seet" note
> bobbed tail a little bit once and flicked wings once

I observed a very similar bird at PLU yesterday. Mid-sized empid,
greenish above, whitish and yellowish below, good-sized crest, large,
tapered eyespot, yellowish mandible. Raised and lowered tail several
times.

So I'm thinking Pacific-slope, but heard nary a PAWEE out of the little
thing, just this high, loud, sharp, kind of metallic "CHIP!".

Whatever it is, sounds like we've got at least two of them.

Ideas?

Nick Pharris
Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma, WA 98447
(253)535-7045
pharrinj at plu.edu