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Re: Crested Flycatcher Question
- To: Randy Emmitt <birdcr@concentric.net>, Nancy Iha <niha@citcom.net>, <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Re: Crested Flycatcher Question
- From: ric carter <ricc@mindspring.com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 19:51:01 -0500
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We had a GC Flycatcher use a newspaper box a couple of years.
The box was about 6-8 feet high in hardwood bottomland forest beside a
creek. Opening faced northeast.
Another tube on a piling under our elevated house regularly attracts
Carolina Wrens.
Ric Carter
Washington/Garner
> From: Randy Emmitt <birdcr@concentric.net>
> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 18:21:31 -0500
> To: Nancy Iha <niha@citcom.net>, carolinabirds@duke.edu
> Subject: Re: Crested Flycatcher Question
>
> Nancy,
>
> I saw a Great Crested Flycatcher last year nesting in the old flag pole to
> the coast guard station at Cape Lookout. The flag pole was about 3.5- 4
> inches in diameter and dropped back to the ground for protection from
> strong winds(not used anymore). The nesting portion of the pole was about
> 6-7 foot off the ground and leaning downward at about 30 degrees. I watched
> them and photographed them go in and out feeding young for over an hour,
> but the camera with a huge lens shook too much and the light wasn`t very
> bright so I didn`t get as good of photos as I`d liked. I was told they nest
> there every year, I`ll see as I`m going back the first weekend in May.
>
>
> Randy Emmitt
> Rougemont, NC
>
> Randy Emmitt Photography
> http://www.rlephoto.com
> Carolina Butterfly Society webmaster
> http://www.carolinabutterflysociety.org/
>