This Great Crested Flycatcher was a total camera hog as he fluttered from branch to branch among the limbs of the dying Oak tree in my yard.
It’s not often enough that these hyper little birds will sit still long enough to get a good picture!
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Great Crested Flycatchers are an edge-dwelling species: they prefer places where wooded areas adjoin grassy places.
This is the reason why they seem to enjoy living on my property so much as this description fits my backyard here in central N.C. perfectly.
They are also known to set up shop in unused woodpecker holes and will use shed snake skin to line their nests.
Makes me wonder if they will stalk a snake waiting patiently for it to shed a crinkly nestling “mattress” for its young, lol!

Photos by @sally_siko
Canon 5DS