Looking at the entire series of photos of this bird, this is a Great Crested Flycatcher. The head/face/throat is appropriately gray and the yellow underparts are extensive, leading up to the upper breast. Ash-throated Flycatcher is a very pale bird - with underparts exceedingly paler then this individual, and pale yellow far more restricted to the lower belly and under tail coverts, as well as a far paler breast, throat and face. Great Cresteds are typically mid-story to canopy foragers but will work lower, secondary growth as well. Jen Brumfield Cleveland, OH www.jenbrumfield.com On Jun 24, 2013, at 12:07 AM, Haans Petruschke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi, > > I decided to bite the bullet and go through the work of uploading all the > pictures of the myiarchus sp flycatcher. They are on my flickr feed: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/haans42/ > > I have big issues with photo ID because people only look at the pictures > and tend to get into the minutia. Let me attempt to head a bit of that off > by saying the bird is much darker and more colorful in the pictures because > I used my standard photo settings. This means under exposing by 0.3 to > 0.7 (Olympus scale) because I later adjust levels and saturation to get a > more true to life image. In this case none of these photos have had that > done. Also the bird is in deep shade and it was mostly cloudy with the sun > only coming out occasionally. All of that said I know these details will be > ignored by 98% of the people who make a call based upon these photos. > > They will also ignore my observation that this bird appeared smaller than a > Great Crested. As well as the odd behavior it has exhibited over the > several times I have seen it. That is coming low in the trees > > So far people sending me off list email favor Ash-throated. This is > mostly from people out west who have extensive experience with that species. > > I am very much hoping that someone with extensive experience with myiarchus > species will weigh in on this bird and take into account my observations. > the exposure value, and not just the photos as presented. > > I find things problematic with Ash-throated but these only appear in a few > images. The most obvious is that on one or two pictures the tertial edges > appear to be highly contrasting. But in other pictures they do not. In > some pictures you can see some paleness at the base of the bill. But in > the best images this is not the case at all. > > One last thing. If someone tries to call this an Ash-throatedXGreat > Crested hybrid I will find them in real life and make their life miserable. > Please don't go there. :-) > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. > Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. > Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. > > You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] > ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]