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Diving Flycatcher

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Posted by Dennis Plank on July 25, 2017 at 7:39 PM
Diving Flycatcher
I'm not sure, but I think this is a Willow Flycatcher.  I'm posting this mostly because I thought it was exhibiting some interesting behavior.  It landed on the dead branch I use for one of my drips in the blind pool and looked like it might try to drink from the drip.  Then it suddenly left the perch and popped back up almost immediately.  At first I wasn't sure what it had done, but it repeated it and I realized it had dived into the pool and immediately popped back up to the branch.  It groomed itself very briefly, which is when I got this shot and repeated a third time (I missed the shot) and left immediately thereafter.

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Posted by Elizabeth Holbrook on July 26, 2017 at 8:31 AM
Nice capture.  I like the way he/probably she is looking at you.  Drip is crystal clear.  Well done.
Posted by Elizabeth Holbrook on July 26, 2017 at 8:32 AM