In 2000, two pairs of Spotted Flycatchers were observed from arrival till after fledging at a farm in the province of Friesland. Nest-building took three days; egg-laying started one day after the nests were finished. Incubation lasted 13 days and nestlings fledged at ages between 15 and 16 days old (Table 2). The feeding frequency roughly doubled in the second part of the nestling stage (Table 1). Declines in feeding rate were apparently compensated by providing larger prey items. Of identified prey items, Diptera (n=213) were most common, followed by Odonata (n=45), Lepidoptera (n=27), Coleoptera (n=9) and caterpillars (n=4).