Empid on Mount Diablo, CA USA (1 Viewer)

[has530]

Anyone got a good answer on this Empidonax flycatcher? I have talked myself in and out of Gray, Dusky, Hammonds, and Wetsern Wood-Pewee.

 

[THE_FERN]

Have you tried keying it out with this:

Category:Empidonax - BirdForum Opus

www.birdforum.net

 

[KenM]

Olive-sided Flycatcher.

Cheers

 

[has530]

Olive-sided Flycatcher.

Even with that yellow wash on the belly, hunched posture, wing bars, eye ring, and orangish bill?

 

[qwerty5]

Even with that yellow wash on the belly, hunched posture, wing bars, eye ring, and orangish bill?

Yes. Olive-sided can have an orange lower mandible, partial eye ring, and faint wing bars. The yellow looks exaggerated by lighting in some of the photos, but Olive-sided can have faint yellow too. The short tail and very dark and contrasting sides rule out anything else.

 

[AveryBartels]

Another for Olive-sided