Sat. I helped on the Klickitat Fall Migrant Count in the Trout Lake area and
noted an Olive-sided Flycatcher which at first seemed to be chasing a yellow
butterfly. This flycatcher would chase and catch a yellow leaf and take it
back to his perch on a small tree left in a fresh clearcut. Then he would
drop it and briefly look away then dart out and recatch the leaf. This was
repeated many times. It was just playing with the leaf.

Anyone else see anything like that where it seemed just for the fun of
chasing something like a cat with a dead mouse batting it around.

Ken Knittle
Washington Birder newsletter
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Vancouver, WA 98665
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