Common Yellowthroat nest with Cowbird egg
Common Yellowthroat nest hidden among dry leaves 2 ft. above ground level
Free time on a sunny morning... Where to go? I landed in a small county park, and had it all to myself except for abundant singing/nesting/feeding birds, including this male Common Yellowthroat with a beak full of bugs. His nest apparently had young birds in it, but I found another Common Yellowthroat nest containing four eggs, one of them being the egg of the parasitic Brown-headed Cowbird.
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how do the birds make their nests?
and what are they of?
The birds bring the pieces of material they find, and then weave them together with their beaks.
One book describes the nest like this: "A bulky cup of dead grasses and leaves, ferns, weed stems, bark strips, grass-blades and moss; lined with fine grasses, vine tendrils, bark fibers and often hair."
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