Ash-Throated Flycatcher
Myiarchus cinerascens
"About eight inches in length, the ash-throated
flycatcher is the smallest of the state's regular Myiarchus species.
It has a grayish brown head and back, pale gray throat and breast,
and pale yellow belly."
It is the beak and crest that suggest to me that it
is a flycatcher. I can see some yellow on the belly. One problem
with this identification is that this species "inhabit[s]
the deserts and brushlands of the southwestern U.S., from the
Pacific Coast to Texas." The East Texas flycatcher is the
Great Crested Flycatcher with a bright yellow belly. This is
not that bird. Tveten does add that "The species breeds
commonly in western Texas eastward to Austin, Beeville and Laredo.
It nests less frequently in the southern portion of the state
and along the lower coast." This individual is about 150
miles further to the East than it should be.The Texas Ornithological
Society Handbook of Texas Birds has a map on page 125 that
places the ash-throated flycatcher to the West of a North-South
line roughly from Fort Worth-Austin-Kingsville.
Here is the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Ash-Throated Flycatcher,
June 5, 2005.