SeEtta, the photos in your blog document (in my mind) very nicely an Eastern
Wood-Pewee. Very long wings, dull wing-bars, all yellow mandible, and uniform
pale underparts. The bill is a pewee bill, too large for any empid, I believe.
I have a photo of one from Missouri on-line here:
When I saw the very long and wide bill with orangish lower mandible on a
empidonax flycatcher yesterday morning I thought it might be an Acadian
Flycatcher. I shot a number of photos quickly before it flew off into an
off-limits and fenced area by the Canon City Riverwalk. I went back down
this
Nick,
The only pewee I have seen with that large of a bill is a Greater
Peweehttp://birdsandnature.blogspot.com/search?q=peweethat I
photographed in McAllen, Texas and this bird reminded me of that one
but it seemed very unlikely.
SeEtta Moss
Canon City
Blogging for Birds and Blooms magazine @
