Great Crested Flycatcher

"Cresty," as we call this great crested flycatcher, is welcome to all the insects he can eat.

Great Crested Flycatcher

Chris got this nice photo of the Great Crested Flycatcher.

The spring migration is really in force at our house now. We also saw a blackpoll warbler (but no good photo, yet). We saw a cedar waxwing high in the trees and two thrushes in the garden.

The orioles have begun to build a nest a week earlier than last year.   The male oriole is often very territorial chasing other birds away, but he sat on the same branch about a foot away from a cedar waxwing for a good minute.

Great Crested Flycatcher from the Beanery in Cape May

 

 

 

Our last stop in Cape May was the "Beanery", an old lima bean farm also known as Rea Farms. We watched this Great Crested Flycatcher in the warm morning sun and got a few good pictures (and many more blurry ones with his face obscured by branches).