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Re: Crested Flycatcher Question



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/
>