Least Flycatcher
“Rounding out this rather epic walkabout, a Least Flycatcher (compact with bold white eyering and two white wingbars) and a Ruffed Grouse crossed my path – only the third time in two years that I have seen a Ruffed Grouse in Cape Elizabeth.”
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Rounding out this rather epic walkabout, a Least Flycatcher (compact with bold white eyering and two white wingbars) and a Ruffed Grouse crossed my path – only the third time in two years that I have seen a Ruffed Grouse in Cape Elizabeth.
Other flycatchers seen include Eastern Phoebe, Great-crested Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher and Eastern Wood Pewee.
Other birds of note spotted this day were a Least Flycatcher, and a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.
Through hearing its song, we were able to rule out other flycatchers such as the Eastern Phoebe, Least Flycatcher and Eastern Wood-Pewee.
Other notes from the field include Great-horned Owls with begging young along Bowery Beach Road on May 17, first of year Least Flycatcher on May 19.
On September 27 a sprightly Least Flycatcher with its wide white eyeing, wing-bars and slightly forked tail materialized in an old apple-tree along Shore Road.
I was also treated to the songs of Veery’s, Hermit Thrushes, Great-crested Flycatchers, Cedar Waxwings and a single and Wood Thrush and Least Flycatcher.
Of note, a Least Flycatcher and Eastern Wood-Peewee were gleaning insects in an old crab apple tree as an Eastern Towhee called from within the surrounding thickets.