Subject: [Tweeters] Flycatcher ID
Date: Tue May 1 17:54:01 PDT 2018
From: Linda Phillips - linda_phillips1252 at msn.com

Today May 1st, I was birding Wallace Swamp Creek Park in Kenmore. I saw a flycatcher that I can't identify. I got several brief looks from several different angles but never got the opportunity to really study the bird. It was perhaps 20 feet above me and on the opposite side of Swamp Creek from the park. It was about the size of a house finch. The wings extended a little past it's body but well short of the length of its tail. It pumped its tail a few times but not consistently. If it had an eye-ring it was inconspicuous. It did not have a "vest" but there was somewhat of a yellow streak on the middle of its breast. Its bill was ½ inch or maybe a little longer. From my vantage point it just looked dark, I couldn't make out any difference in color between top and bottom mandible.
I'm torn between Hammond's and Pacific-Slope. Of course it was silent.
Anyone want to give me your thoughts as which it might be?
Linda Phillips
Kenmore

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