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Also see Nest ID Matrix (contents) and Egg ID Matrix (color, spots, etc.)
To see other cavity nester bios/photos:
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![]() This is in a plastic Bo Villa box mounted on a tree (with an anti-slip red rubber mat on the floor.) Unfortunately it was abandoned – possibly because the Titmouse was working on it and was startled when I opened the box. |
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![]() Also see Hissing Titmouse video clip Description: Downy nest of moss, fur, and soft plant fibers. Occasionally primarily crumpled up dried leaves with grass, and a bit of snakeskin, cellophane, bark strips, etc. Cup may be padded with hair, fur, bits of string, or cloth. May have earwigs living under moss. Eggs are white with rose/mauve speckles, little or no gloss, more evenly distributed than chickadee. |
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![]() Keith reported that bluebirds started a nest in this Springer Chalet with a 2″ deep entrance hole that is 1&1/2″ in diameter. They laid one egg several weeks earlier and then seemed to have moved about 700 feet away to a box well out in an open field. Tufted Titmice have laid three eggs in the box so far and you can see that the dark splotches on the bluebird egg show it to be getting rotten. Notice the piece of snake skin at the top of the nest cup and another piece just to the left eggs. This box is 9 feet off of the ground. |
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![]() Notice all the crumpled dry leaves. |
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The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.
-Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist and educator. Reflection #54, Aphorisms and Reflections, selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan, 1907.