I watched a pair of Great Crested Flycatchers investigating a hollow
tree in the orchard this morning. Nearby I found a Hooded Warbler's
nest, about 20" off the ground in a low thicket of multiflora rose
(no eggs yet). 100 yards into the deeper woods, my neighborhood Broad-
winged Hawk is now incubating in a well concealed stick nest 60 feet
above the ground. I've read that Broad-wings probably mate for life,
change territories regularly, and build new nests yearly. But mine
have used this nest before (I discovered it several years ago, and
even earlier knew that their nest must be somewhere very close to
this location.) I think they're switching between this and another
undiscovered nest in alternate years.
I've got one Robin feeding young in a well-made nest nicely hidden in
the top of a white pine, another sitting eggs in a very skimpy,
highly visible nest in the first crotch of a maple in the woods, and
a third hidden from view inside a large nest founded on the
attachment clevis of a service entrance cable, a nest so massive and
conspicuous I'm reminded of the Monk Parakeet colony on the Baroque
entrance towers at Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
-Geo
Geo Kloppel
Bowmaker & Restorer
227 Tupper Road
Spencer NY 14883
607 564 7026
g...@cornell.edu
geoklop...@gmail.com
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