[EBB Sightings] Tropical Kingbird, Point Isabel

[EBB Sightings] Tropical Kingbird, Point Isabel

Jeff Hoppes
Sat Oct 11 10:53:55 PDT 2008
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    Still no sign of the El Cerrito Dusky Warbler this morning.
    
    When I arrived at 8:30 this morning the assembled birders reported that I
    had just missed a flyover Tropical Kingbird by 30 seconds.  Told that it
    had gone north over the Costco parking lot I followed it into the Point
    Isabel dog park, where I found the bird flycatching in the trees on the
    ridge at the northwest corner of the post office perimeter fence.
    
    This is the best of the resulting photos:
    
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/black_throated_green_warbler/2931371825/
    
    although when the bird perched the tail was mostly hidden by vegetation.
    
    I did also get an extraordinarily marginal flight shot. Not every day a
    photo this terrible helps with an ID, but here's the blurry tip of the
    bird's tail:
    
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/black_throated_green_warbler/2931371853/in/photostream/
    
    Thanks to everyone who pointed me in the direction of this bird.
    
     Good birding,
     Jeff Hoppes
     El Cerrito
    
    
    
    


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