Carolina Wrens have put moss in nests they build in my old Christmas wreaths that I keep hung up for them on my front porch. Donna Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: Betsy Darlington To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 3:02 PM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Bird nest que.
What cavity-nesting bird(s) use a lot of moss in their nests? We were cleaning out our boxes yesterday (we have 14), and two of them were made up mainly of moss. In 38 years of tending these boxes, I've never seen that before. Bluebirds and Tree Swallows are our main nest box occupiers, with an occasional House Wren (though not for years, for these). Deer mouse nests in boxes don't look anything like this, and they never build in the boxes as we now have them situated. The boxes are not near trees, but I still wonder if they could have had flying squirrels in them. Anyone know what their nests are like? Betsy -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
