This Ash-Throated flycatcher has been hanging around the house waiting for his wife to show up. Chee! Chee! CheeChee! She (if it's the same pair) usually nests in a box on a fence in my yard. I hope she made it this time. He's been here for a couple of weeks already. Unless he is actually a she. I can't tell until I see both of them together.
These birds are master grasshopper hunters. I haven't watched them for a full 16-hour day. But if they hunt grasshoppers all day at the rate they do when I am watching them, they're capable, combined, of killing 200 grasshoppers a day. That's why not mowing your lawn can be so important.
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