Wildlife & Related

[Bailey Guns]

We have a little flycatcher that builds a nest under the deck above our lower patio. This year she hatched 3 little ones. We always worry because so far, every year, at least one or two fall out of the nest and die. This year all 3 made it. I was hanging a sheet over the deck railing a few days ago and saw two of the babies fly off into the trees. Went downstairs and found the 3rd sitting on the patio. When I opened the door it flew away, too. Mama is still hanging around but haven't seen the babies.

We get those house wrens, too.

I don't see them around the house but there are a lot of killdeer in the area. I think I've posted some pics of them before. One left it's eggs right in the rock driveway at work. They do the strangest things.

[Hummer]

We have a little flycatcher that builds a nest under the deck above our lower patio. This year she hatched 3 little ones. We always worry because so far, every year, at least one or two fall out of the nest and die. This year all 3 made it. I was hanging a sheet over the deck railing a few days ago and saw two of the babies fly off into the trees. Went downstairs and found the 3rd sitting on the patio. When I opened the door it flew away, too. Mama is still hanging around but haven't seen the babies.

BG, the bird may be a Cordilleran Flycatcher which nests on shelves of rock or on man made structures. It's call is a simple and distinctive whistle, whee-seet! Formerly named Western Flycatcher but split from the Pacific-slope Flycatcher some years ago. Cordilleran is a Spanish term for mountain. Another possible ledge nesting bird that might be around your place is the Say's Phoebe.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/..._Flycatcher/id