Personal Hygene of a Willow Flycatcher

[Loupey]

A female I assume as it had a breast pocket in which to sit over the eggs? You can see it better in the second shot but I did not get the one in which she nearly stuck her entire head in it. Entertaining to watch.

[Knight]

Good Series I havent had anything to post in the last few days . Im living pure Hell at the moment . One TStorm after the other but theres light at the end of the tunnel my week of troublecall duty finishes in the morning

[paulnj]

Nice! That is called a brood patch BTW.

[Loupey]

Good Series I havent had anything to post in the last few days . Im living pure Hell at the moment . One TStorm after the other but theres light at the end of the tunnel my week of troublecall duty finishes in the morning

Hope you got to go out and shoot. Look forward to seeing your results. Thanks for commenting.

[Loupey]

Nice! That is called a brood patch BTW.

Thanks, Paul. I guess breast pocket doesn't sound as scientific, eh? I was amazed that the patch was so well concealed until it started preening.

[Bevb]

Nice series Loupey, you know me, i love to capture birds grooming and preening, youve done a good job IMO.

[Loupey]

Thanks, Bev. You know with all the birding help I've been getting here, I think I've finally started sounding hafwey intellijant to my father-in-law who has always been an avid birder himself.

[paulnj]

Do a google image search of "brood patch" they are very large!