Bird Watchers Please Help Me Identify this little guy.
06-08-2016, 05:36 AM
#31
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Excuse me, but a Phoebe says Phoebe..Feee Bee. the Eastern Flycatcher does not say that. They are all Flycatchers, but there are many differences in their appearance and their calls and their mannerisms..
06-08-2016, 08:26 AM
#32
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Evy, I definitely think this is an Eastern Phoebe. They are about 4 1/2", have thin beaks, long tails and a delicate appearance.
What you said about your husband squirting the black snake with a garden hose freaked me out! He must be a brave man. When I was a child, in the summer we used to go to Fort Mill, SC and help my grandmother harvest and shell beans from her garden. One morning we got there before she woke up, but just in time to watch a humungous black snake slither through the living room screen window. She lived in the country and had no phone. We got her out of the house and went for help. When they found the snake, he was coiled up in the box screen of her bed (one of the antique kind that had no fabric covering it). I shudder to think what would have happened if we had not been there to see the snake go in her window. After that, a snake bell was installed on her property (similar to a fire bell from days gone by). Of course, you might wonder why she didn't just have a phone installed. I've often wondered that too.
What you said about your husband squirting the black snake with a garden hose freaked me out! He must be a brave man. When I was a child, in the summer we used to go to Fort Mill, SC and help my grandmother harvest and shell beans from her garden. One morning we got there before she woke up, but just in time to watch a humungous black snake slither through the living room screen window. She lived in the country and had no phone. We got her out of the house and went for help. When they found the snake, he was coiled up in the box screen of her bed (one of the antique kind that had no fabric covering it). I shudder to think what would have happened if we had not been there to see the snake go in her window. After that, a snake bell was installed on her property (similar to a fire bell from days gone by). Of course, you might wonder why she didn't just have a phone installed. I've often wondered that too.
06-08-2016, 01:03 PM
#34
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My thoughts exactly. Except replace "may be" with "is"!! They nested around our house every year we were there. They were as familiar to me as the back of my hand.
They are great to have around as they eat a lot of bugs. They like to nest in a protected site but not in a nest box. I put up platforms for them under the eaves and they used them every year.
They are great to have around as they eat a lot of bugs. They like to nest in a protected site but not in a nest box. I put up platforms for them under the eaves and they used them every year.
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