We discovered this nest in the Linden tree yesterday. Apparently the bushtit birds like our trees and bushes, because this is the sixth hanging nest we've found, and the third nest in the past three years.
Note the wine bottle shape. The opening is at the top, with a flap of moss and spider web covering it to keep out the rain or obscure the entrance. The entire structure is very resilient at this stage. The insides are lined with cobweb, feathers and down, so soft that I can't feel it when I touch it.
4 comments:
How big is it from top to bottom and across its thickest part? Since a bushtit is smaller than a housewren I am assuming that it is about six inches tall and two and a half thick.
How close am I?
Nice guess! I measured it with an obsolete ruler (in inches), and found it to be 9 inches tall, from the tip at the highest point to the tip at the bottom where the frazzled fringes are hanging loose. The width at the widest point is exactly 3 inches.
Oh! So a ruler that measures in inches is "obsolete", huh?
So what does that make Grumpy, who suggested the original dimensions in inches!
My apologies for inappropriately using the term "obsolete" where I should have said "US Customary Units." Since the subject in discussion was naturalistic, or scientific, it just seemed odd to me to use the US Customary Unit (or "common unit") of measurement.
Did you know that the outside temperature was 6 degrees this morning? Of course, that's Celsius.
When describing the height of a column of water in a recent letter to BeeBoo, I purposefully used "ten meters" as a measurement.
I am measuring my diet intake, and desperately need a scale that measures in grams, rather than ounces. All of my advice reference material uses grams. Unfortunately, most available household devices still use the "common unit" of measurement.
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