Alex, who showed me the nest, lives on an old farmstead, neighbor to a stable that housed a pair of horses. The hair nest was built about 100 feet from the barn, so the source of material was not ...

The male oriole helps to bring in nest materials, but the female creates the nest by weaving strands of material in and out in the same manner by which hand-woven cloth is created. But first, she ...

Nests of the vireo type are known as pensile. Oriole nests are described as pendulous (second nest). Construction method is the same. The vireo uses heavier material for its tighter nest.

Bushtits’ footlong hanging nest resembles an oriole’s nest and is woven out of a variety of materials, including mosses, lichens, leaves and spider webs.

A male Baltimore oriole in 2010. A Baltimore oriole by its nest. Stacey Clementz Stacey Clementz A male Baltimore oriole in 2010. A Baltimore oriole by its nest. For several years, I would drive ...

Baltimore orioles at at Kay Amo's bird feeder in Russell, NY. in southern St Lawrence County. Baltimore Orioles build sock-like, hanging nests woven together from slender fibers.

Baltimore orioles are regularly spotted at Spring Lake Park, located along M-119, just north of the M-119 and U.S. 31 intersection. For the past several years, these birds have nested in this area.

Warren Photographer Sandra Rothenberg won the Female Birds Award of the 2023 Audubon Photography Awards competition with this shot, taken outside Rothenberg’s home, of a female Baltimore oriole ...