"This medium-sized, seven-inch flycatcher is brownish gray above and slightly darker on the head, wings and tail. The white underparts are washed with pale olive on the sides and breast. In the fall and winter plumage, many birds have a strong yellow wash below ... The eastern Phoebe lacks the distinct light wing-bars of the smaller wood pewees and the eye-ring of the Empidonax flycatchers ..."

This bird is very similar to the Eastern Wood-Pewee. The Eastern Phoebe has no noticeable wing-bars nor an eye-ring, and the coloring of their bills differs.

Photo taken with a Nikon D80 using a Nikon 300mm, f/2.8.

February 24, 2007.