Late January morning side light illuminates this female while chipping away in the forest. Sturgeon County
After a couple of weeks of sickness, and a couple more weeks of work, it was finally good to get out into the -20 (C) weather and find something to photograph, this was it, but a nice find nonetheless. Sturgeon County.
Way north of it's most northerly summer range of Oregon this Ash Throated Flycatcher faces an uncertain or most probably a limited future if it doesn't migrate as the temperatures here drop far below those in it's Mexico or Honduras wintering area. How the heck did it get here? Lois Hole Park.