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Olive-sided Flycatcher



Regarding Wayne Irvin's question about the O-S Flycatcher in Haywood County, 
Bob Olthoff and I have been doing monthly bird surveys since last fall for the 
church group that owns the property around Lake Logan.  They are planning on 
creating an environmental education center there.  The current director knows 
all about the flycatcher and where it was located last year (near his house) 
and also knows the song.  Bob and I have not relocated the bird, although I 
haven't had much time to get out there lately. The director has my card, 
though, and he told me that he would call me if the bird turned up.  He has 
not seen or heard it this year.  Either the bird has moved to an area that is 
less accessible (plenty of places like that there as this is largely an 
undeveloped area and it's a pretty good sized lake) or it didn't come back.  
If I find out any more I will let you know.  The whole area around the lake is 
private property and it is well posted, so I hope no one decides to go out 
snooping on their own.  If the bird is found I believe they will be amenable 
to birders coming to see it as they are good folks there, but trespassing on 
your own is verboten.

FYI, the area around the lake has lots of spruce trees and is very popular 
with Golden-crowned Kinglets, Red-breasted Nuthatches, and Brown Creepers 
year-round, even though it's probably only at about 3,000 feet in elevation.  
The microclimate there in that deep, narrow river valley is probably cooler 
than might be expected.
Marilyn Westphal
Hendersonville, NC
mjwestphal@unca.edu