Dear Lee and Tweeters,

That is nice that Lee got to see the nest of a Pacific-slope Flycatcher. It isn't something one experiences every day.

In late June of 1993, I was asked to come look at a flycatcher nest in Cedar Grove (near Concrete, Skagit County). It turned out to be a Pacific-slope Flycatcher that was nesting on a ceiling light fixture on the porch of a mobile home. There was one egg in the nest. Although I did not see the bird, the homeowner showed me a photo of a PSFL on this nest. A short time afterwards, the nest was abandoned, and a new one built nearby. I think the second nest was in a tree.

Yours truly,

Gary Bletsch ?
Near Lyman, Washington (Skagit County), USA ? garybletsch at yahoo.com ? ?


--- Lee Rentz <lee at leerentz.com> schrieb am Do, 17.7.2008:

> Von: Lee Rentz <lee at leerentz.com>
> Betreff: [Tweeters] Nesting Pacific-Slope Flycatcher
> An: "tweeters" <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Datum: Donnerstag, 17. Juli 2008, 6:26
> While watering recently planted Sword Ferns near the house,
> I noticed
> a clump of fresh moss draped over the electric meter box.
> When I
> looked closer, a small bird flew out of the clump. I did a
> quick
> check of the nest and observed four mostly white eggs with
> brown
> markings. The bird appears to be a nesting Pacific-slope
> Flycatcher,
> with pale eye ring and relatively long, narrow tail that
> twitches
> frequently when the bird is perched away from the nest.
> It built
> its nest atop the meter box and backed up to the exposed
> concrete
> foundation of the house, perhaps four feet above the
> sloping level of
> the ground. This artificial nest location corresponds with
> the
> natural locations described in Marshall et al "Birds
> of Oregon:"
> "They nest 0-30 ft above ground, in sites back by hard
> supporting
> surface, e.g., the crotch of a tree or shrub ..." The
> bird sits on
> the nest inconspicuously and, with its back up against a
> wall, can
> look out in one general direction for predators. The
> nesting
> location is at the edge of a patch of lakefront, low
> elevation, moist
> forest with Western Red Cedars and Douglas Firs. The nest
> itself has
> the aforementioned moss on the outside, with a cup that
> appears to be
> created from very fine twigs (I'll try to look more
> closely at the
> construction after fledging).
>
> Has anyone else had experience with flycatchers nesting
> nearby?
>
> One other bird note: this year we had a Hooded Merganser
> female
> again using one of our lakefront nest boxes, in which we
> had
> installed a live feed video camera (last year I posted a
> description
> of the fledging of a mixed family of Hoodies and Woodies on
>
> Tweeters). This year the young fledged sometime in mid to
> late May,
> but we were not here to observe it. Yesterday, however, I
> saw a
> female adult Hooded Merganser with three 80% grown young
> swimming by
> the Bigleaf Maple tree where they presumably hatched.
> Since there
> are no other nest boxes on the lake, I think there is an
> excellent
> possibility that these are the surviving members of this
> year's family.
>
> Lee Rentz
> Fawn Lake near Shelton, WA
> lee at leerentz.com
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