Subject: Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Date: Oct 11 00:51:18 1999
From: mike patterson - mpatters at OregonVOS.net


I have mist-netted Western Flycatchers into mid-September.
The curiosity about this record is in the talking. Flycatchers
generally don't have much to say past the breeding season.
My first reaction was, "did you see it?"

If not, my guess is that it was not a flycatcher, more
probably a towhee, possibly a Golden-crowned Sparrow...

Ruth Sullivan wrote:
>
> Hello Ryan,
> The PAIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCER leave around the beginning of August so the
> OLIVE-SIDED -FLYCATCHER.So this would be a real late record .
> Ruth Sullivan
> Tacoma
> godwit at worldnet.att.net
>
> ----------
> > From: Lftpitcher at aol.com
> > To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> > Subject: Pacific-slope Flycatcher
> > Date: Monday, October 11, 1999 5:13 AM
> >
> > I have a belated report of a PACIFIC-SLOPE FLYCATCHER on October 9th. I
> was
> > in South Olympia off of Boulevard Road on the side of the road. All of a
>
> > sudden I heard a call: Pee-o-seet! It took me a minute to figure out
> that I
> > was hearing a flycatcher due to what I call my "annual flush from the
> brain
> > of the neotropic bird calls until next spring." The bird called several
> > times in the few minutes that I was on the side of the road.
> > How late will these birds hang around?
> >
> > Ryan Shaw
> > Lacey, WA
> > Lftpitcher at aol.com

--
Mike Patterson
Expounder of Scientific Wisdom
Astoria High School

In the beginner's mind
there are many possibilities;
in the expert's mind
there are few.
--- Shunryu Suzuki