[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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