Red-eyed Vireo on Rush

Red-eyed Vireo on Rush

From: Chris McCreedy
Sighting_Date: sunday
Remote Name: 209.221.205.174
Date: 27 Jun 2004
Time: 17:24:06 -0400

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Singing in cottonwoods maybe 1km downstream from the Narrows. I heard him and I thought Cassin's Vireo at first because of the questions in his song. But it was different and I tracked him down and clearly saw a grey head with dark grey edge, olive back, and red eye. Vireos are like lizards somehow. Also, an adult Red-shouldered Hawk mobbed by a magpie and a kestrel, the kestrel itself mobbed by a Yellow Warber and Orange-crowned Warbler. Rush's most idiosyncratic pair of Willow Flycatchers began building a nest on top of their 2003 nest, the first time I have ever seen this behavior in an Empid

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