----- Original Message -----
From: "Ruth Sullivan" <GODWIT at worldnet.att.net>
To: "Wayne C. Weber" <contopus at shaw.ca>; "INLAND NW BIRDERS"
<inland-nw-birders at uidaho.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: [inland-NW-birders] Fw: ALDER FLYCATCHER NEAR DOT, B.C.


> Hello Wayne,
> First congratulation of this bird as you mention so far south.Maybe there
is
> an invasion of this species this year.We also had a smal recoder from
Radio
> Shack,but Patrick was verry close on this bird,and second he called and
> called for ever.It reminded me so much on our first Least Flycatcher near
> Curlew Lake in 1997.This bird called for days.
> We left early on the 13th of june ,and visit Ritzville,where we spend most
> all day on the Alder there.Than on the 15th we got one day rest ,do to
> owling at nights on the WOS convention.We visit the marsh on Kippling
> Rd,for search of the Northern Waterthrush and the Gray Catbird what we had
> the previos year there.The minute we got to the marsh,Patrick said"i hear
an
> Alder Flycatcher."I was not convinced ,since i know how rare this bird is
in
> Washington.But Parick got the tape of the Alder out,and this bird came so
> fast to this tape,and repeated the song over and over.We also played the
> recorded tape back, with much static,but you can hear the bird verry
> clear.The bird also responded to that tape.I said to Patrick"If this bird
> dont get confirmed,NO ALDER EVER GET CONFIRMED."
> We both was convinced with this bird,and all the other birder what on the
> next day saw this bird.I hope other birders will trying to look for this
> species.We checked other places out on our last Okanagon trip,but did not
> find any.Many BROWN looking Willows.
>
>
> Ruth Sullivan
> godwit at worldnet.att.net
> Tacoma
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wayne C. Weber" <contopus at shaw.ca>
> To: "INLAND NW BIRDERS" <inland-nw-birders at uidaho.edu>
> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 8:34 AM
> Subject: [inland-NW-birders] Fw: ALDER FLYCATCHER NEAR DOT, B.C.
>
>
> > Birders,
> >
> > On July 2, while running the Canford BBS route, I found an ALDER
> > FLYCATCHER along Highway 8 between Merritt and Spences Bridge, BC. The
> > locality was about 0.5 km east of the easterly turnoff from Highway 8
> > to the Dot Ranch (it's a loop road). Dot is shown as a locality on
> > some BC maps, but it's really just a single ranch, about halfway
> > between Merritt and Spences Bridge along the Nicola River.
> >
> > The bird was singing loudly and persistently, giving the
> > characteristic "fee-bee-o" song (or as I prefer to render it,
> > "ree-bee-wip"). As I had a tape recorder and some blank tapes with me,
> > I decided to try to record the song. I was able to stand at the foot
> > of the tree from which the flycatcher was singing and record its song.
> > Even though I used an inexpensive Radio Shack recorder and the
> > internal microphone, which is poorly suited for recording bird songs
> > in the field, I was able to record several clearly-audible songs
> > (admittedly, the signal-to-noise ratio was not good). I am sure a
> > sonagram would clearly establish this bird's identity, were anyone to
> > question it.
> >
> > Alder Flycatchers are very unusual this far south in B.C. This is only
> > my third record from the Nicola watershed, all of which were found
> > during Breeding Bird Surveys. One Alder Flycatcher was found at a
> > different locality on the Canford BBS route in 1980 and remained there
> > for several weeks; another was found even farther south at Brookmere,
> > on the Brookmere BBS route, in 1984. In the Okanagan Valley, I believe
> > there is only one record of Alder Flycatcher, from Lavington (near
> > Vernon) in 1984. If there are more recent Okanagan records, I trust
> > that Dick C. or Chris C. will inform us.
> >
> > The locality at Dot is about 120 km (75 miles) south of the nearest
> > regular Alder Flycatcher breeding habitat near 70 Mile on the Cariboo
> > plateau, and only about 145 km (90 miles) north of the U.S. border. In
> > view of the confirmed record of Alder Flycatcher in Okanogan County,
> > WA and the probable record in Lincoln County, WA this year, there
> > seems to be a pattern of Alder Flycatchers showing up south of their
> > normal breeding range in 2002.
> >
> > Now, if I had only had a blank tape in 1991 to record the Alder
> > Flycatcher that I found on the Similkameen River near Nighthawk, WA--
> > I would be getting credit for the first Washington record of Alder
> > Flycatcher, rather than someone else!
> >
> > Wayne C. Weber
> > Kamloops, BC
> > contopus at shaw.ca
> >
> >
> >
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