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Goofy bird ID please

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    This little guy desperately wants inside. It keeps hanging on the screen looking at my wife. Never seen one before.
     
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    Looks like a Kingbird to me.
     
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    My money is on a Western Kingbird

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    Doesn't look like a Wisconsin bird, vacationing maybe ?
     
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    Wow, a flycatcher !! We think that there's 2 of them. I sure hope they like mosquitoes..... thanks everyone !
     
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    That I believe is the one, curious little things they are.
     
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    I have 2 that have nested under my front porch for years. They are very majestic. They flit their tails back and forth when they are perched. They always have a beak full of bugs when raising their young.
     
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    Yeah we have the Eastern Kingbirds around here and they build nests very near the house and/or around the yard every year...its really cool to watch flycatchers hunt/catch bugs...the hovering thing they do :thumbs:
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    What a cool picture of a very pretty bird, I have never seen plumage like that out here, love the pic!

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    That is an excellent in flight pic!
     
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    Rather than kingbird, look up Great Crested Flycatcher.

    We have them every year here.
     
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