IMMATURE MALE VERMILION FLYCATCHER, OASIS VISITOR CENTER, BIG CYPRESS NATIONAL PRESERVE, OCHOPEE, FLORIDA, 11/11/2019

    This Vermilion Flycatcher has been reported sighted at the Oasis Visitor Center for several days.  So we traveled about an hour to the center and low and behold we sighted and photographed it.  It was flying on and off a fence at the northwest corner of the Oasis parking lot.

    We can ID this bird as a immature male Vermilion Flycatcher as follows:

• Reddish flanks, belly and undertail coverts
• Reddish mottling on crown
• Whitish breast and throat with reddish mottling
• Brownish upperparts  
• Brownish crown with dark eyestripe and whitish supercilium

   The Vermilion Flycatcher is a new species to our Photographic Life List, which now stands at 978.