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There is only one little bird in this set. This tiny Least Flycatcher flew very close to me and stayed for several poses. I really miss my Canon 7D which is out for repair, but very appreciative of good friend Glenn Parker for his loan of his "old" 50 D. The 7D is a superior camera, but nothing beats close.
Strathcona Riverside Trail. June 12, 2012.
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Found this li'l Least Flycatcher in the East Beach picnic area at Ft De Soto this PM. Not good with my empids, had to ask for help in IDing it but the concensus was Least.
This is my favorite shot of the day. I did catch some Warblers, but no shots different or better than images I have already posted.
Emily Murphy Park, Edmonton. August 30, 2013.
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It is still warm in New Brunswick but this least flycatcher is already thinking about flying south for the winter.
- Was a great finding on plantation preserve (Linear trail). this bird has been seeing in this location only six times
Plantation Preserve , Fl
Believe this is a Least Flycatcher found near the mulberry tree area at Ft De Soto Park. I'm not very good on the flycatchers so had to depend on the ID of a couple of experienced birders for the ID and I thank them.....
Warblers were not the only highlights on the migrant day on 28 August 2016 at Elk Slough, Yolo County, California. This vagrant Least Flycatcher popped up for a couple quick photos. This is only the fourth Least Flycatcher I have seen in California. It was also one of four Empid species encountered on the 28th
Flycatchers are difficult to identify. Many look very similar and often ID is based on their unique call. I captured this image on my songbird migration trip this past April in Galveston, TX, where we saw several different Flycatcher species and once I got home I couldn't remember which was which! 🤔According to the Merlin app this is a Least Flycatcher, so that's what I'm going with!
Least Flycatchers are most likely to be confused with the Western Wood-Pewee, Alder Flycatcher and Yellow-bellied Flycatcher here. Willow Flycatchers are usually seen further south in the province.
Least Flycatchers are an inch shorter than Pewees and have a rounder head, shorter bill in relation to the head, and bolder and broader wing bars. They also have a bolder and complete wing eye ring compared to the Western Wood-Pewee. Least Flycatchers are a pale grayish-olive color overall. Pewees are a dusky gray overall.
Alder Flycatchers are the same size but have a relatively long and broad bill and weak eye ring compared to the Least Flycatcher. Least flycatchers are most often seen and heard higher in the poplars in mixed wood habitats. Alder Flycatchers are most often seen and heard in the riparian growth at the margins of ponds and lakes. Their habitats overlap though.
Yellow-bellied Flycatchers are quite similar in size, appearance and sound to the Least Flycatcher, but are yellowish-olive overall and have a yellow throat compared to the white throat of the Least Flycatcher. They are more likely seen in the brushy understory within the woods rather than the edges or higher canopy.
If you hear it vocalize a rapid and emphatic CHEbek! CHEbek!, it is a least Flycatcher. Yellow-bellied Flycatchers have a similar song, but much softer and slower.
Also included in this posting is a shot of a male Yellow Warbler on the nest. I walked by it a few times before I actually saw it.
Hawrelak Park Edmonton. June 03, 2010.
A couple days ago I came upon a Least Flycatcher's nest. I spotted one of the adults with a bright orange butterfly in her beak and tracked her returning to the nest with my binoculars. The lighting conditions at the time were not ideal - midday with nearly overcast skys, so I resolved to come back. The nest is about 12 feet up, 20 feet from the edge of a logging road (about 15 miles from the nearest paved road) and faces east. I speculated that I would have to get up really early for optimal light - when the sun was low in the sky the light would come through the tree cover from the road, but once the sun started to climb, the nest would be in the shade of the forest canopy.
The forecast for today was cloudy with chances of rain (it's raining pretty hard right now), but when I got up at 5:30am (which may seem early to some, but I get up at that time everyday for work, so it was just business as usual) the eastern sky was still completely clear. As my dad says - you have to "make hay when the sun shines" so I quickly dressed, strapped a 16ft extension ladder to the roof of my vehicle and loaded up my gear. I was at the location by about 6:30am to find perfect lighting. I quickly set up the ladder against an adjacent tree ~15 feet away and secured it solidly with a ratchet strap for safety. I bungee-corded a 4 foot dowel horizontally to an overhead branch above the top of the ladder and draped a couple large (~6ft x 16ft) sections of camoflage netting down to hide the ladder (and me). I then climbed up to near the top of the ladder (I stayed down a few rungs so I could lean forward against the tree comfortably) between the layers of netting and poked my lens through a hole I cut and started shooting...
I was initially a bit concerned that the birds might notice and be stressed by my presence, but they just carried on as if I wasn't even there. At one point, neither of the adults returned to the nest for ~10 minutes and I started to contemplate taking things down, but soon thereafter a ruckus started in the trees about 30 feet away and I poked my head out of the blind to see a pair of big adult american robins dive bombing a small sharp-shinned hawk perched there. Once the sharpie flew off the little flycatchers resumed thier regular rotation at the nest.
I got about an hour of shooting in excellent light before the sun got high enough that the nest went into the shade of the canopy (~8am). In that hour, I was eaten alive by blackflies, sweated off about 10 pounds in the dark coloured blind in the direct sunlight and managed to get pine-tar all over the hair of my left arm and my T-shirt, but I in the end I was pretty happy with the results!
In future I am going to have to look at rigging up some type of tripod head support that can be solidly strapped to a tree in a non-destructive manner - I think it would have been a lot easier to set-up and prefocus the camera on the support 15 feet up, camoflaged the camera then comfortably sat back at a distance with my binoculars and fired the shutter with a remote trigger switch. Next time...
Least Flycatcher (Empidonax minimus) - Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
This cooperative little flycatcher was my first of the year. He was kind enough to land and pose quite close to me. Maybe it was the swarm of 100 insects around my head. As we welcome back the birds, so must we do with the mosquitoes.
Thanks for visiting!
Emily Murphy Park Edmonton. June 01, 2014.
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Sony A7III + Sony 200-600mm G OSS, mains levées, AF-C ( Petit Spot Flexible ).
Photo prise au Parc de la Frayère à Boucherville.
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