Bats? -Reply/w Flycatchers
Norm Saunders (osprey@ARI.Net)
Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:36:59 -0500
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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:36:53 -0400
From: James Marcetich <MarcetiJ@mail.nlm.nih.gov>
To: mdosprey@ARI.Net
Subject: Bats? -Reply/w Flycatchers
In Colesville it's been a banner year for bats; I get a rather
outstanding flying circus every evening.
Awhile ago I reported a flycatcher pair in my back yard, that I
eventually identified as great crested flycatchers with the help of
some friendly MDOSPREY people. Would like to update that I
eventually found the nest--in the screech owl box I put up several
years ago. (I frequently hear barred owls and occasionally hear
screech owls from the woods out back, but the screech owls have
thus far ignored by hospitality.)
The flycatchers fledged and are long gone for several weeks. I
miss them. Don't know how typical it is for them to nest in
human-provided habitat. Hope they'll be back next year.
James Marcetich
Colesville, MD
>>> "Hutch&Maret Hutchinson" <coolspring@hotmail.com> 08/06
10:10 pm >>>
We usually have plenty of bats here in Adelphi, at least two kinds
(larger and smaller) but this year we haven't seen even one! Has
anyone
else noticed a dearth of bats? It can't be a lack of prey bugs
since
the yard is full of swallows, swifts, and martins. Hutch
Carl Hutchinson
Adelphi, MD
carl_hutchinson@hotmail.com
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Norm Saunders
Colesville, MD
osprey@ari.net