Flycatcher at Rattray Marsh: GC, Kingbird, Olive-sided?

[BetCrooks]

I saw two large flycatchers fly in and land at the top of some distant trees in the non-marsh part of the Rattray today. I thought they might be Great Crested, which nest there, but they were not calling. I took a photo but it was distant and not well lit. Looking at it now, I'm not sure what I'm seeing. It looks too white fronted to be Great Cresteds, and I don't see any white tail line for Kingbirds, and it does seem to have dark streaking down the sides, but I'm quite capable of imagining things that aren't there.

What does anyone with more experience think? (Besides that I need to get a better photo next time, which I agree would help a lot!)

This is the same photo in its original cropped form and then brightened 45%.

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[JW Mills]

Looks like an Olive-sided to me.

[thouc]

Yes, Olive-sided. Nice find.

[BetCrooks]

Thanks to you both!

I got the Tamron 600 this spring and it's proving very useful to me for learning and identifying birds (and butterflies/dragonflies.) I'm not fast enough on field marks with binoculars, so I find it really helpful to bring a photo home to look at with the guides beside me. Now if I could just get better at using my camera, I'd really be on a roll.

I'll report the sighting on eBird but I'm not sure these two were going to stay long in the Rattray. They were moving quickly from tree top to top and were quickly out of sight.