Cranberry Bogs 5/26--Olive-sided Flycatcher

It's Memorial Day and not feeling like dealing with traffic, I went to the Cranberry Bogs on Dover Road; they're close and there's usually no one there and if there is, I know her.  I got there very early and spent about an hour investigating the area where the buildings once stood. I had 30 species just kicking around there, including a Wood Duck in a tree, but the exotic flycatcher I was hoping to find, which was reported yesterday, was not among the 30. 

I walked out on to the sand trails around the bogs, which are all flooded now, at least the ones I'm willing to go to, since the high grass is a haven for ticks. In one bog there was a little mud and on that mud was a Glossy Ibis and 6 Least Sandpipers. Tree Swallows were buzzing around and there were a lot of Chimney Swifts, the first time this year I've seen more than one at a time. 

I was surprised to see someone else wandering around out there. He turned out to be a birder whose name I've seen on eBird, but this was our first meeting. We talked for a moment and then I went on, but we ran into each other again in a spot I didn't think anyone else went to. We were walking along the large reservoir in the back when we saw a flycatcher sitting atop a dead tree. We both immediately thought it was an Olive-sided Flycatcher, the bird that had been reported yesterday at the demolished buildings site. It was pretty distant, but we could see the "vest" and chunky appearance, and the clincher, for me, when I looked at my photos in the viewfinder, was the white patch on the side--diagnostic as we birders like to say. 

For the morning, 48 species. 

Canada Goose  2
Wood Duck  1     
Mallard  4
Mourning Dove  5
Chimney Swift  5
Least Sandpiper  6     
Laughing Gull  3
American Herring Gull  1
Glossy Ibis  8
Green Heron  1     Chased by blackbird
Great Egret  6
Black Vulture  1
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey  1     Flyover
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  1
Olive-sided Flycatcher  1    
Eastern Wood-Pewee  1
Willow Flycatcher  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  2
Eastern Kingbird  4
Blue Jay  2
American Crow  2
Carolina Chickadee  2
Tree Swallow  12
Barn Swallow  1
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
Northern House Wren  2
Gray Catbird  4
Brown Thrasher  1     Old building site
Cedar Waxwing  20
House Finch  3
American Goldfinch  2
Chipping Sparrow  5
Field Sparrow  2
Eastern Towhee  2
Orchard Oriole  2
Red-winged Blackbird  25
Brown-headed Cowbird  3
Common Grackle  2
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  10
Blackpoll Warbler  2
Prairie Warbler  6
Northern Cardinal  

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