Re: Bats? -Reply/w Flycatchers

Hutch&Maret Hutchinson (coolspring@hotmail.com)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 18:40:08 PDT


James:  Send some down our way!! The bugs are getting pretty thick!  
Hutch

coolspring@hotmail.com
Adlephi, MD

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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
>


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