Willow
Flycatcher, Empidonax traillii
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![]() Willow Flycatchers are relatively scarce in the Bay Area during Spring; this one was the first to be reported in Santa Clara County in 2007. It showed the "no-eye-ring" look, and gave the "fitz-bew" song, making the identification easy. |
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![]() They are much more common in Fall migration; the one shown above and below posed nicely for me in the back yard of a house overlooking the Russian River near Healdsburg. |
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![]() Another Fall Willow Flycatcher; again, note the very faint eye-ring. |