Acadian Flycatcher in DC (May 29th 2022)
Flycatchers, in my experience, provide exclusively low-angle views. First I wanted to share a few examples of times I suspected to have seen an acadian flycatcher in New York County. These birds did not sing for me. The first bird did, however, create a wheer or whir sound. (Inwood Hill Park, New York, NY) (The Battery, New York, NY) On a r ecent trip to D.C. to I was able to hear a very clear and closely sung acadian song. Sung quickly in two(?) notes, the song can be remembered as peet-sah , or flee-sick. Reflected on a spectrogram, the sound appears like a sharp upward pointing arrow that bends outward slightly on the way down. (Recorded in the Merlin App Sound ID at Kenilworth) The flycatcher was easy to spot and difficult to keep track of as it sang frequently and flew adeptly from perch to perch in the mid-story. Trees of a wide age-range grew here between th...