Letter to an Olive-sided Flycatcher

0:00This is Bird Note. I'm J. Drew Lanham, an ornithologist, naturalist and writer, and this is a note I've written to a bird I love. Dear Olive-Sided Fly Catcher, might I call you Olly Fly? Please forgive the familiarity, but um, there's a dead tree, a nice tall pine snag on the edge of my home by the mountain lake that's just calling your name. For three years now, I've been waiting for you to find it. No, I'm not expecting a quick three beers call or anything, so tell tale is that. Especially since it's fall now. I just want to see you sitting up off Fly Catcher like with a white shirt and dark vest. Is that too much to ask of the habitat selection gods? I mean, come on Olly, you're as tightly tied to snag tops as wax wings are to eat in hollyberries. Just saying, come on by, Sally fourth, I promise I won't totally lose my mind being right all along about your micro site selection wishes.

1:14It'll just be between you and me, this dead tree affinity. Okay, love and waiting drew. PS Olly, give me a quick pip call when you arrive so I know it's really you. Kind of tired of Eastern wood, peewees pulling my leg. If you love nature stories like we cover here on bird note, you'll want to add back from the brink from mutual of Omaha's wild kingdom to your rotation. Hosted by Dr. Ray Wynne Grant and Peter Gross, they share stories about species that nearly disappeared and the people working to bring them back. A recent episode how coffee is bringing songbirds back explores the journeys of migratory songbirds, the threats they face and the extraordinary comeback story of the Curtlyn's Warbler.

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