Great Crested Flycatcher Date:June 2013 A large, assertive flycatcher with rich reddish-brown accents and a lemon-yellow belly, it is mostly found in Eastern woodlands of North America. Its habit of hunting high in the canopy means it’s not particularly conspicuous until you learn its very distinctive call, an emphatic rising whistle.These flycatchers swoop after flying insects and may crash into foliage in pursuit of leaf-crawling prey.Surprisingly though when we were moving inside the Devils lake state park , little faraway we saw this flycatcher on the ground probably taking a sand bath along with the Rose breasted Grosbeak which is photographed separately.It is the only Eastern flycatchers that nest in cavities, ThirdEye Reflections Nature and WildLife Photography By Shekhar Bopardikar
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:30:29 +0000
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