Yesterday I went to Piney Z and found a bird that I did not recognize. It was
flycatcher, head had a slight crest, gray with wing bars, black billand not as
large as a gray kingbirds, grayish white throat and upper belly, and pale yellow
lower belly.
It was quite vocal, but of course, I had neither a camera nor a tape recorder.
It was not a phoebe, nor was it like any gray kingbird I ever heard. It seemed
to be between the sizes of those two. Its bill was black .
I came home and listened to the ashthroated flycatcher on the computer. It was
not the same but it was coarse like the ashthroated.
It was in the dike at the end of the lake near the first bench. It was in the
same location where I saw the vermilion flycatcher about 3 years ago.
I'm hoping someone else will be able to go look for it. I would really like it
if someone else could see it.
I saw a total of twenty-five species, but nothing else unusual. There were over
20 wood storks there.
Pat McTarsney
Tallahassee