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Raederle ([personal profile] seleneheart) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2022-04-17 11:22 am

Nest?

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 (?).


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[personal profile] kaishin108 2022-04-17 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh wow, some serious nesting going on!
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[personal profile] yourlibrarian 2022-04-17 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh, no idea but it sure looks like the right time and place for one to have fallen.
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[personal profile] angrboda 2022-04-17 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2022-04-17 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Looks like the sort of thing our native crows or magpies might put together.
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[personal profile] shirebound 2022-04-17 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] pameladean 2022-04-17 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith 2022-04-18 08:33 am (UTC)(link)
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
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[personal profile] switterbeet 2022-04-18 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Any chance its squirrels?