In open glades of deep woods the pensive call of this retiring little FLYCATCHER seems perfectly attuned to the isolation. A pair sometimes will rear a family in an old orchard or even build their home close to houses altho, normally, human society does not attract them. At early morn or late twilight they occasionally seem possessed, fluttering and twittering with aimless sorties among the trees as tho running amok. The frenzy lasts only a few minutes but transforms our timid little PEWEE into an entirely different bird.
The tail is quiet and notes more plaintive than the Phoebe's.
NEST: A neat structure of felted vegetable fibres, bark and grass saddled on horizontal limb; often 50 feet above ground.
EGGS: 2–4; creamy white wreathed with brown and lilac spots.
North America from southern Canada west to eastern Nebraska and southern Texas.
A tree 70 feet high, distributed from Maine to central New York and west to Michigan and Minnesota.