[TN-Bird] Willow Flycatcher Nest

Standifer Gap Marsh, Chattanooga, Hamilton Co., TN
May 31, 2005
One completed empty Willow Flycatcher nest with snapping adult 3 feet away...
The nest was 4.5 ft up in a 6 ft opposite-leaved sapling, in 6 ft cattails, 15 
ft from the edge of the water, near the north end of the water.

Last spring David Hollie and friends found a Willow Flycatcher nest about 500 
ft from today's location.  It was 7 ft up in a Black Willow, very exposed 
location, visible from the gravel road.  That nest fledged 4 young.

The nest locations are very different.  I had been hearing a Willow, and 
looking in Willow trees for a nest, unsuccessfully.  I first thought today's 
nest was a Red-winged Blackbird, from a distance, mostly because of the 
location, but at a closer view it was too small and too tightly woven.  Then 
the adult appeared and let me know whose nest it was.

Pictures of nest and adult available.  I intend to follow this nest; if someone 
else would like to see it and/or help keep records, please let me know.

Other marsh nests this season:

  Virginia Rail  5
  Least Bittern  10
  Red-winged Blackbird  73


David Patterson
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