[Birdnet] Possible YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER at the IC

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Jeff Bilsky, Paul Lombardi and I found a flycatcher along Wright Brothers Drive between Amelia Earhart and Harold Gatty that appearred to be a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher.  

The bird was very YELLOW with a rather short and stout bill.  It had basically no primary projection and a stub of a tail.  My first thought was of a Western Flyvatcher' but the bird lacked a tear drop and instead sported a thin pale eye-ring. 

I ran back to the car and got my camera while Jeff and Paul stayed on the bird.  However, it soon flew and headed north to the area at the corner of Harold Gatty and Wright Brothers Drive where lucklily I was able to get about a dozen shots before the bird flew off. 

We are curently searching along Wright Brothers for the bird and will post again if we relocate it.

I will have to get my pictures on the big screen and lighten them up to get a better look. The light was very poor and the littler empid did not want to sit still. 

Good Birding 

Tim 

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