Nest?

[seleneheart]

I found this at the base of one of my trees yesterday. Is this a nest of some sort? There's a bunch of wool-looking/fabric material and fur in among the twigs. And some roofing tape (?).

Comments

[kaishin108]

Oh wow, some serious nesting going on!

[seleneheart]

For sure.

[yourlibrarian]

Huh, no idea but it sure looks like the right time and place for one to have fallen.

[seleneheart]

Yeah, I think so.

[angrboda]

Looks like a nest that has fallen down. Birds use whatever they can find sometimes. Maybe it was built by an inexperienced bird in its first breeding season, and that's why it fell down.

[seleneheart]

Ah, poor unskilled thing.

[cmcmck]

Looks like the sort of thing our native crows or magpies might put together.

[seleneheart]

I should have put something for scale - it's pretty big, over a foot in diameter, I'd say. Makes sense that it's a bigger bird.

[shirebound]

It probably is! I've been putting tufts of my dog's spring-shedding fur on a bush out back, and am always happy when it disappears. I like to think of it warming a nest or two somewhere.

[pameladean]

I often see plastic shopping bags or fragments thereof in squirrel nests; and when we had our roof replaced, all roofing supplies other than nails and wood bits appeared there.

P.

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

That's a nest, or what's left of one. Some birds build messy nests, just a pile of twigs and trash, rather than a neatly woven cup. Pigeons and doves just throw a few sticks together. Corvids are particularly prone to using manmade materials.

https://eorganic.org/node/25296

https://animals.mom.com/kind-nests-crows-make-11445.html

[switterbeet]

Any chance its squirrels?