On Monday (9/7/2015) I was able to spend a little more time in the yard and scored on two other yard rarities… a Pacific Slope flycatcher and a Warbling vireo. (I needed help with the verification, but that’s the nice thing about photographs.)

The vireo accessed the watercourse for a bath three times. Like the White-eyed vireo I photograph at my sister’s house outside Austin, Texas, this bird bathes “on the fly”. It skims the water then finds a perch where it preens furiously. Since it staged by the watercourse in various places I was able to get a number of good photographs of it.

And finally, we’ve had a number of juvenile Northern flickers that began frequenting the yard for suet during the past month or so, after a total absence of flickers for the earlier part of the summer.  I have been able to obtain very good photos of the flickers, including this female.