Alder Flycatcher in Anoka County
2025-05-17

Uncommon in Anoka County in the Spring season

This Alder Flycatcher was a little off the trail southeast of the Mississippi Gateway Center at Mississippi Gateway Regional Park (45.139489, -93.310758) on May 17, 2025. The Merlin app identified the bird's call as Alder Flycatcher, which was also the first bird listed when I asked Merlin to identify the bird in my photo. This bird's call sounded like the "West Virginia, United States, June 2020" call for Alder Flycatcher in the Merlin app. The spectrogram shapes of those two calls were also a close match.

Photo by David Elfelt. Sony RX10 IV, ISO 500, f/4, 1/1000 sec., 220mm (35mm equivalent 600mm). Denoised in On1 Photo RAW 2025.