Black Phoebe - Sayornis nigricans

This little guy was perched on a low branch watching for insects over the water at the park pond. It never stayed still for long, branch to sprinkler head to rock by the water in a circuit with occasional dives to snatch a snack mid-air or off the water.
They are usually near small streams, or lakes and ponds, even your Koi Pond. I have seen them perch around my pool and "rescue" insects from drowning or snatch them out of mid air over the pool. They will also hunt in tide pools by the beach and salt water marshes. They do not come to feeders unless you are offering meal worms and they happen to see them while hunting insects in your yard.

One article I read called them the "Tuxedo Bird". My thought was they look like the head waiter at a fancy eatery as they perch and watch for a meal.

7DII, 100-400L mk1 @ 400, 1/1250 @ f/8, ISO-320 hand held just before noon on a February day.

Someone on another site got after me for posting old pictures and not new ones. Well I will be 75 next month, have health related vulnerabilities and Covid keeps me home. I have only gone off our property eight times since Feb, six of those to medical appointments. And it is hotter than 😈 here so I am not in the yard taking pictures (118 yesterday, 116 today). So I am searching my archives and then going to the OOC version in LR and re=editing using new apps.