What I assume are two of our Yard crows have been working on a nest for about a week. It's approx. 60-70 feet up in a white pine and I can see parts of the nest from our kitchen. Earlier today, one carried a mouthful of twigs to the site, then repeated this. They took a break for a couple hours and just now I watched one gathering coarse dead grass from the Yard. After taking a wad of this to the nest, it dropped down and got another mouthful; but spit this out. It walked to another spot, pulled up another mouthful, and spit that out too. It finally got a small wad of what appeared to be the center stem from hickory leaves(which it was under), and delivered that to the nest. This seems a little early, but what do I know?
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