I visited Soldier's Delight again this morning. Keith's Summer Tanager 
was still there singing and sitting in plain view at eye-level on the 
red trail by the split from the orange and yellow trails. It must be 
very lonely. There were echoes of "Una furtiva lagrima" in its song. 
There is no sign of a female or even another male around. Perhaps this 
sad scenario is why I was seized with great fits of nose-blowing for 
the next hour.

The migrant warblers were pretty much gone. They were replaced by two 
apparent difficult-to-ID species:

1) A Gray-cheeked Thrush. Identified with reasonable confidence by 
having little or no eye-ring, a uniform gray-brown color throughout 
the upper parts with no hint of red on or near the tail, a general 
long and large appearance, and fairly heavy spots. Basically, it 
lacked important characteristics of other species - not a very 
satisfying way to make an ID. It did not make a single sound. (As for 
gray-cheeks? About as gray as a Red-bellied Woodpecker's belly is 
red.) I saw it where the orange trail has a T-intersection by some 
houses.

2) A Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. I heard a bird constantly singing 
"perwee" or "tuwee" like a short Pewee song. I did not hear any other 
sounds that I associate with common species. Then, I finally got a 
very quick look at what appeared to be a very yellow Empidonax 
flycatcher. It was almost on the ground, and never sounded higher than 
eye-level. I didn't see or hear any obvious Pewee nearby. This was by 
post #2 on the red trail, near the Summer Tanager area.

I'm elaborating because I wonder how likely it is that a real Pewee 
would make short "perwee" sounds. You tend to hear Pewees, or 
sound-alikes, a lot more than see them.

Steve Sanford
Randallstown MD (Balto Co)
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