Alder Flycatcher
“Additionally, a single Alder Flycatcher was found foraging above a small stream along the fringes of Robinson Woods III.”
Through the year
Columns that mention it, by the month they were published.
Year by year
Columns that mention it each year.
In his words
All 5 passages, oldest first.
Interestingly, before 1973 the Willow Flycatcher and the Alder Flycatcher were considered the same species and went by “Traill’s Flycatcher” which was named by John James Audubon who used the last name of a dear friend and fellow bird lover.
Additionally, a single Alder Flycatcher was found foraging above a small stream along the fringes of Robinson Woods III.
And lastly, on June 8 I spotted two Yellow-bellied Flycatchers and an Alder Flycatcher in South Portland’s Hinkley Park.
Alder Flycatcher spotted within the wet tangles, call was a distinctive wheezed “ree-BEE-a.” Bobolinks, three total frolicking across uncut pasture, their bubbly music bouncing across the marsh.
On June 8 within Winnick Woods my son and I listened to an Alder Flycatcher singing its distinctive “free-beer” sing a ling.