On the afternoon of 16 September 1974 I saw an Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) about 11 miles east and 3 miles north of Vida, McCone County, Montana. A “gestalt” identification was made immediately, since I am very familiar with the species in the east and midwest. I then spent about 15 minutes watching the bird in good light at about 50 feet through a 20x scope as it caught insects over a cattail-margined sump below the dam of a small reservoir and as it perched on a fence that traversed the sump.