If a pair of these energetic little birds take up their residence in your orchard the fact is continually announced. The chebec call is given with all the voltage of their tiny batteries — the performer actually shaking all over. They must need plenty of stored power just to talk, for the notes are incessant. After the young are hatched, the male swings aloft at evening and ends the daylight concert with a curious exuberant flight song which seems to carry the bird aloft on its cadence.
Red Squirrels are their worst enemies and the eggs and nests they destroy keep LEAST FLYCATCHERS from becoming numerous.
NEST: a neat structure of fine bark, dandelion seeds, hair and feathers, located in crotch of trees.
EGGS: 3 or 4; pure white.
Southern British provinces south thru central and eastern United States.
A fine tree up to 100 feet high, distributed in lower Mississippi Valley west to central Texas.