Date: 8/21/12 3:00 pm
From: Warblerick <ricksussman1955...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Olive-sided Flycatcher, yard bird


Afternoon again,
I went out back just after work, about 5:15, with my scope and bins, but left the scope on the deck. Started walking across the backyard and looked up to the dead portion of one of our taller cherry trees (wild) and saw a stout flycatcher sitting there. Got my bins on it and saw it looked like an Olive-sided, so went back to the deck and fetched my scope, and managed to grab 3 pictures, only one of which looks diagnostic, the others are blurry (taken with my android phone-cam through my 30x scope lens).

Lots of other flycatchers around out back now too, but the Olive-sided looks like it flew off to the south, towards my neighbors woods or fields.

Hope it comes back for some better photos...

Rick Sussman
Woodbine,MD

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