While we were working today, a flash of lemon yellow high over my head attracted my attention. (Let’s face it though – looking up is much better than looking down at the ground sometimes!) It definitely wasn’t a goldfinch because it was much bigger without the black and white on it. When we got home, I checked it out on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology All About Birds site here and found out it was a Great Crested Flycatcher! Booya!
Great Crested Flycatcher
This bird hunts insects high in the trees, swooping around, and making a ruckus in the leaves when it spies some luscious tidbit crawling around up there. It has a distinctive call and is the only Eastern flycatcher that nests in tree cavities. Apparently this means it may make use of nest boxes – another reason to put some up!
I’ve added him to my life list which isn’t all that long since I don’t go out and specifically hunt new ones down, but it is the newest I have had in a while.
