From our basement window, I kept noticing 'something' way up in a tree south of our driveway.
After several days, I finally remembered when I got upstairs (my memory's pretty short these days) to grab my binoculars and take a closer look.
I do believe it's a baltimore oriole nest! I'd been wanting to find one for a long time, knowing there had to be one around here somewhere, since the orioles are usually here all summer. Sure wish I could see it right up close and see how it's made, but I guess that won't happen unless for some reason the branch falls to the ground. But it's cool to know it's there!
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2 comments:
that's pretty neat. looks like it's just kinda suspended in the air, the nest must be pretty sturdy.
Yep, orioles are quite the nest builders. Their nests are actually hanging "pouches". If you do a Google image search for 'baltimore oriole nests', you can see quite a variety of them, including one that's built using a lot of narrow blue strips of plastic that show up really well, so you can see how they wind the strips around branches to hang the nest from. Really neat!
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