I’m currently up in Northamptonshire visiting a friend – he lives in a farmhouse in the middle of a large wood which is part of the Yardley Chase complex.
Today we were treated to a family party of spotted flycatchers – four maybe even five birds
Spotted flycatchers sit on a perch and flit out to catch small insects and then often return to the same branch
Spotted flycatchers have declined enormously in the last 30 years or so
These are the first breeding spotted flycatchers I have seen this year. I saw a bird on passage in spring on the Isles of Scilly but haven’t seen any in Devon so far.
A Dartmoor blog 
Lucky you, I haven’t seen any this year.
well spotted, and caught on camera 🙂
Was lucky enough to see one on my BBS square in Devon this year, though only on one visit.