North American Flycatchers
Another great effort by Lee & Birch!!! Concise, pointed, and beautifully illustrated!!!

Another great effort by Lee & Birch!!! Concise, pointed, and beautifully illustrated!!!

And finally, here’s another cool gull from Corpus. It took me 7 tries over the past 3 years to finally get this gull. He’s been returning to a bait shop there for at least that long. Also compared to Herring in 1 pix.
Anyone want to try this bird Virginia found at Lake Creek Trail this morning? The lousy pix is all me
Spent about 4 hours on morning of November 9 staking out Santa Elena canyon overlook with a buddy and some pleasant fellow birders trying to see nutting’s flycatcher. Had to settle for heard only but we heard it about 10 times and have no doubts.
Have a look at several pix of an Empid I had at my place in Williamson County on the North San Gabriel River (The Dacha). Tell me what you think (and don’t peek at comments before you consider for yourself
Here’s a little jewel!!! Lance and I got them just in time for Empids class. By Cin-Ty Lee and Andrew Birch I’ve not had time to review it thoroughly, but the simplicity of presentation and Andrew Birch’s beautiful paintings already impress me!!
Here’s some more bad photos for perusal. Bird 1. Thanks to all who are posting and commenting!!! Just what I hoped for.