Hi Jane,

I'm terrible at empid ID without a song, but I'll hazard a guess here at a
willow flycatcher. This bird appears to have a rather large bill with a
yellow lower mandible and short primary projection.

I hope someone better at empid ID chimes in. I'd love to know which one we
have here.

Devon Comstock
Wenatchee, WA

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Jane Hadley <hadleyj1725 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Tweetsters - I'm always working on improving my identification skills
> and would be interested in any comments on the Magnuson Park flycatcher
> shown in the pictures at this link that was posted on Tweeters today
> (Monday)
>
> https://goo.gl/photos/HxsxRMavSripARCB6
>
>
> The bird has an eye-ring but not much of one and no teardrop at the rear
> -- so less prominent than typical Pacific-slope and more prominent than
> Western Wood-Pewee, which supposedly does not have an eye-ring.
>
> The bird appears to have a yellow or orangish lower mandible, which would
> suggest Pacific-slope, but Western Wood-Pewee's lower mandible is described
> at Birds of North America as "paler with dark tip or all dark." And this
> subject bird could be described also as having a paler lower mandible with
> dark tip. So the bill doesn't seem to be helping with identification.
>
> I put the two pictures through Cornell's Merlin photo ID app. It
> identified the first photo as Western Wood-Pewee and the second photo as
> Pacific-slope Flycatcher. So even digital analysis cannot make up its mind!
>
> I'd love to hear some ID pointers and comments related to this bird.
>
> Jane Hadley
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