Eastern Wood-Pewee

Contopus virens

"The wood-pewees are dark olive-gray above and pale gray below, with whiter throats and bellies. Adults display two light wing-bars that distinguish them from the larger eastern phoebe, but they lack the white eye-rings of the still smaller Empidonax flycatchers. The wood-pewee's upper mandible is black; the lower, dull orange, in contrast to the phoebe's all-black bill."

Photo taken using a Nikon D80 and a Nikon 300mm, f/4.6 manual focus lens.

September 12, 2009.