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Birds of
Rappahannock
makes just a small depression in gravel and adds small bits/pieces of sticks or debris, right on the ground. The larger birds (owls, hawks, crows) make stick nests (squirrels make leaf nests). Most other birds use grasses, mud and various other plant materials.
One year, while I was weeding near a blueberry bush, right above my head was a Baltimore oriole, tugging at a string that had been used to hang soap bars for deer protection. Since that time, I have saved and cut up all string and twine that I have acquired during the year. What a delight then, in November and December after the leaves have fallen, to find most of the string inside the now visible nests.
The Baltimore Orioles, which often nest near our house, came back again this year. This oriole, along with the Orchard Oriole, weaves its nest pouch from plant fibers, vine bark, string, and then fines the nest with hair, plant down and moss.'We find these “hanging sacks” after the leaves fall.
The Ruby-throated Hummingbird nest, which measures about one and a half inches in diameter, consists primarily of fine plant material and plant
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