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Olive-Sided Flycatcher

A first ever for me with getting a photo of one of these. Last summer was the first with ever seeing one, I remember hearing its call while it sat perched up on top of a tree, it would swoop down off and then shortly after return back to the same spot and continued doing this over and over. I never knew what it was until I finally found out through the internet with a recorded call on the Allaboutbirds.com website. When spring arrived this year I hoped that I would see it again but I hadn't, until yesterday when I heard this familar sound, when i looked up, here it was right infront of me and not alone, there we two others as well. The olive-sided flycatcher is near threatened because of habitat loss. Great and fun bird to watch as it catches flies. I hope it doesn't die off! I don't have a big super lens and thus this is the best that I could get, but I'm happy with it. It may not look like it but I was pretty close to this little one at this point

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Uploaded on August 19, 2012
Taken on August 18, 2012