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["Bert Hale" <blhale@xxxxxxxx>]

Since early spring I have had great crested flycatchers calling around my house 
in Bluff City.
Today (Sunday) while putting out bird feed they were exceedingly noisy around 
an owl box 
in the woods in back of my house. Upon investigation I found the pair fighting 
a 20 inch 
black snake trying to get in the owl box. Wlhile watching the birds either 
knocked the snake
off the box or it fell. The box is about 15 feet up a large hickory.

After dispatching the snake (since I had put the box up nature was no longer 
lin the picture}
I climbed the tree and found one fledgling thaat seemed to be old enough to 
leave the nest.

In past years these birds have nested here and have been known to put snake 
skins dangling 
out of the nest.

Have a good one!!!

Bert & Loraine Hale
Bluff City (Sullivan Cy.) TN

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