A Great Pond Pictorial Highlight

     Here are a few photographs I took of a Great Crested Flycatcher nest at Great Pond State Forest in Simsbury.

     The Great Crested Flycatcher is the only cavity-nesting flycatcher in North America. The nest hole is located in a dead tree stump along the edge of the pond, about five-feet from the ground.

     At the time these photographs were taken, both parents were actively catching dragonflies and feeding them to their lone nestling. Nestlings are often fed dragonflies, moths and butterflies without the wings removed.

     The Great Crested Flycatchers main winter range extends from southern Mexico, south throughout Central America, to eastern Panama.