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Hi

I wanted to share my first time with a Spotted Flycatcher that I came across in a local woodland  and luckily for me they were feeding young so were very active hunting.

Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher

The best thing about photographing this Spotted Flycatcher  is it used the same perch to hunt prey from so it would always kill then return to the perch then take the feed to its young, I’m not sure if all of them do this but my pair did (hence the repetitious composition) .

Spotted Flycatcher

Spotted Flycatcher

One amazing thing I never noticed whilst I was at the location is the beak snaps very loudly as they catch their prey! I only noticed this when previewing the video, the short but sweet clip below gives an example of this, listen carefully at 3 seconds in as it catches its prey !

Wonderful experience !

Thanks for looking

P