I got up early before work to go with Snouty to try to find a recently reported female Yellow Headed Blackbird. The last report was from last Wednesday but for reasons I won't mention here, I was very doubtful that it was a legit sighting. We tried looking around for the blackbird flock it was flying around with, but they were not around. We did see lots of Semi-palmated Plovers on the grassy fields by the parking lots. We tried Lido Preserve where we saw a few orioles and an unidentified flycatcher. At Point Lookout we found a Yellow Billed Cuckoo.
On a whim, we went into the neighborhood area, at the corner of Neptune and Anchor Roads. I saw a small bird fly from the telephone wires into a big maple tree that caught my attention. We both got good looks at it and it was a Yellow Bellied Flycatcher. It was later joined by 2 Yellow Warblers and at least one Least Flycatcher. I think I have seen a Yellow Bellied Flycatcher before once at HLSP, but didn't get satisfying looks. At least I can say for 100% certainty that I finally have a legit lifer Yellow Bellied Flycatcher. The bird I saw was very yelllow and had all the right field marks.
I should mention that I was up at 4am and heard some birds migrating overhead so I was hoping some new birds would turn up.
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