Dear Ospreyers,

I had to walk home at lunchtime and looked in on the Olive sided Flycatcher (my commute to work involves an arduous walk across Patterson Park - in May and September this commute can take 2 hours!). At 12:05 there were actually 2 Olive-sided Flycatchers perched next to each other! Posted for completeness of the record.

Dave


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Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Olive-sided and Yellow-bellied Flycatchers -
Patterson Park


MD Osprey:

The Olive-sided and Yellow-bellied Flycatchers were still present at 
Patterson Park in Baltimore this afternoon (Thu 8/31).

I ran into Keith Costley who had been there and seen the Olive-sided 
earlier. Joel Martin also joined us. About 1:30 Keith and Joel 
relocated the Olive-sided and about 2pm I refound the Yellow-bellied. 
The Yellow-bellied was an adult.

All of the migrant action was in the northwest corner of the park, 
near the garden south of the maintenance yard (at the so called, 
"Bull Ring"). As Dave, mentioned, this is south of the fountain.

Links to a couple maps can be found here ...

         http://www.pattersonpark.com/Park%20Information/parkinfo.html

Good birding!

Phil


At 10:23 08/31/2006, Dave Curson wrote:
>Dear Ospreyers,
>
>There was quite a bit of migrant activity at Patterson Park in 
>Baltimore this morning. A mixed flock high in the canopy included 2 
>gnatcatchers, a male redstart, 2 pewees, a Magnolia Warbler and a 
>Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. The yellow-bellied had me fooled for a 
>while since I haven't seen one for several years and because I think 
>of them as an understory species - but I realised what it was from 
>its tiny size and quite dingy green colour on the breast with a 
>yellow wash from throat to belly - made it look a bit like an 
>Orange-crowned Warbler perching erect! Its call is very distinctive 
>- a clear rising whistle like a pewee (though consisting of one 
>note, not two), sometimes preceded by a chup-chup.
>
>The Olive-sided Flycatcher was a treat, giving great views on 
>exposed branches with a pewee perched next to it for comparison! 
>Complete migrant list is below.
>
>If anyone's interested in seeing these, they were both in trees 
>around the oval "bull ring" 100 yards east of the fountain 
>(Patterson Park Avenue end of the park). I have a feeling the wind 
>and clouds will keep them here today.
>

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Phil Davis      Davidsonville, Maryland     USA
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