Bird mystery solved!
I figured it out--it's a baby scissortail flycatcher, the State Bird of Oklahoma!
UPDATE: This was so cool--I just found the mother and two of her babies in the top of a small tree. I don't know, of course, if the bird I first saw was one of the babies in the tree, but the tree was within 40 feet of my first encounter. The mother would fly out from the tree repeatedly, sometimes to threaten me, and sometimes to catch a fly in mid-air, and then she would return to her babies to feed them the flies she caught. There was no nest, though--the little birds were just sitting next to each other on a small limb.
UPDATE: This was so cool--I just found the mother and two of her babies in the top of a small tree. I don't know, of course, if the bird I first saw was one of the babies in the tree, but the tree was within 40 feet of my first encounter. The mother would fly out from the tree repeatedly, sometimes to threaten me, and sometimes to catch a fly in mid-air, and then she would return to her babies to feed them the flies she caught. There was no nest, though--the little birds were just sitting next to each other on a small limb.
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