Dave & Marie should compile a booklet on neat nest stories! Get photos. Donna
Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott On Apr 21, 2013, at 8:05 AM, "Marie P. Read" <m...@cornell.edu> wrote: > Cool observations, Dave! > > CHickadees nested in a skinny, very rotten trunk in my yard years ago, and > one day the trunk broke off just above the nest. I found the parent > chickadees fluttering around it anxiously. So I got some duct tape and stuck > the broken off piece of trunk back on, and they carried on raising their > young and fledged them successfully. Hurray for duct tape!! > > Marie > > Marie Read Wildlife Photography > 452 Ringwood Road > Freeville NY 13068 USA > > Phone 607-539-6608 > e-mail m...@cornell.edu > > http://www.marieread.com > > ***NEW*** Music of the Birds Vol 1 ebook for Apple iPad now available from > iTunes > > http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/music-of-the-birds-v1/id529347014?mt=11 > ________________________________________ > From: bounce-83770344-5851...@list.cornell.edu > [bounce-83770344-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of nutter.d...@me.com > [nutter.d...@me.com] > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 8:58 PM > To: CAYUGABIRDS-L > Subject: [cayugabirds-l] unusual chickadee nest > > Many times when I've seen Black-capped Chickadees excavating or using > cavities in ridiculously narrow dead branches or stubs of trees I've worried > about the risk of it breaking off and wondered what the birds would do. A > couple evenings ago during a walk in the Mulholland Wildflower Preserve I > learned about one option. I saw a pair of chickadees approach a narrow high > dead tree trunk, and one of them entered what appeared to be an old hole with > a ragged entrance, one of three holes spaced along its length. The odd thing > is that this tree trunk was not connected to a tree. It had snapped off, > turned upside-down, and been caught in the top of another tree. When the > ceiling becomes the floor, just do a little redecorating. > > --Dave Nutter > > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > > > -- > > 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ > > -- > > -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
