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On 4/15/2015 2:22 PM, nancy dowd wrote:
> Several people have mentioned lots of houseflies being active to feed our early arriving fly-eating migrants like swallows, as Ron did below.
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> But do birds actually eat House/Cluster-type flies? I have never noticed any birds feeding on them...
* years ago (in Central NY) I was part of a party that put a winter fire
in the stove of an otherwise unused cabin, and Cluster Flies boiled out
of it in great numbers, to be eagerly eaten by Chickadees (and, I think,
WB Nuthatches). So there are times when Birds eat these Flies when
they're made available.
fred.
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