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from the previous nesting season. The whole family will often huddle into the cozy nest they used in summer.
A pair of wrens built a nest in a clothes pin bag that hung on the porch of a log house where I lived in Northern Virginia. ET&eh cold night during a long winter, I watched three as they crowded into the old nest.
Chickadees, woodpeckers, and nuthatches roost in holes in trees, often the very cavity they previously used for nesting. Woodpeckers are known to excavate a cavity fro the express purpose of escaping intense winter cold. Nest boxes are valuable to birds in winter. Thick evergreens, such as cedars, hemlocks and spruce, supply protected roosting sites ft>r Cardinals and Juncos.
In winter as well as summer, birds need a constant source of fresh, open water not only for drinking but for bathing. Birds do bathe in
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